[Missouri-l] Fwd: [coataccess] Accessible Information Technology and Web Bill in Minnesota with Implementation Funds Passed and Signed by the Governor

Thu Jul 2 14:44:16 CDT 2009

>Delivered-To: chiphailey at cableone.net
>Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 14:37:17 -0500
>Subject: [coataccess] Accessible Information Technology and Web Bill 
>in Minnesota with
>  Implementation Funds Passed and Signed by the Governor
>Reply-To: coataccess at yahoogroups.com
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>Accessible Information Technology and Web Bill in Minnesota (HF 1744 
>/ SF 1600) Passed and Signed by the Governor on 5/21/09. The new law 
>requires that the state adopt 508 Standards and Web Content 
>Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Guidelines and establish an 
>advisory committee that will make hardware, software, products and 
>Websites accessible without causing an undue burden (too much cost- 
>not technically feasible) to the state.
>ARRA and Telecommunications Access Minnesota (TAM) Funds cover the 
>$476,000 that goes to the Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) to 
>coordinate the bill; and TAM funds alone go to $200,000 for MCDHH to 
>make online state web content available in ASL; and $200,000 for the 
>legislature to caption its live streaming of legislative sessions. 
>We used definitions of "accessible" and "accessibility" that are 
>defined in 
><http://www.section508.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=content&id=11>Section 
>  508 and the 
><http://www.webaim.org/standards/wcag/WCAG2Checklist.pdf>Web Content 
>Access Guidelines Checklist
>To view the final language of this bill, 
><https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H1744.4.html&session=ls86>click 
>here. Thanks to Senator Rest and Representatives Hilty and Westrom. 
>Thanks to the Commission of Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind 
>Minnesotans board members for taking the lead. Thanks to Alicia 
>Lane, Minnesota Association of Deaf Citizens; Christopher Bell, from 
>American Council for the Blind; and Steve Jacobsen and Jennifer 
>Dunnam from National Federation of the Blind for testifying. Thanks 
>to our friends in Arkansas for all of their technical assistance and 
>moral support.
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>Mary Hartnett
>Executive Director
>Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind and Hard of Hearing Minnesotans (MCDHH)
><www.mncdhh.htm>www.mncdhh.org
>mary.hartnett at state.mn.us
>1-800-627-3529 (tty)
>651-431-5965 (voice)
>651-431-7588 (fax)
>63.231.241.115 (IP)
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