Bill Text: MA H4767 | 2009-2010 | 186th General Court | Introduced
Bill Title: RELATIVE TO ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-21 - Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the House Committee On Ways and Means [H4767 Detail]
Download: Massachusetts-2009-H4767-Introduced.html
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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By Mr. Walsh of Lynn, for the committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight, on House No. 2995, a Bill relative to accessible electronic information technology for persons with disabilities (House, No. 4767). June 16, 2010.
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An Act RELATIVE TO ACCESSIBL E ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
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FOR THE COMMITTEE
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Steven M. Walsh |
11th Essex |
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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In the Year Two Thousand and Ten
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An Act RELATIVE TO ACCESSIBLE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. E ach secretariat, department, division or other agency of the c ommonwealth of Massachusetts shall activate all TTY Messaging . If possible, TTY Messaging should be activated for each active mailbox but , there shall be, at a minimum , at least one TTY enabled mailbox assigned for each office and ad ministrative unit of government.
SECTION 2. Any work group that employs or may employ individuals with visual impairments shall install helper applications that allow individuals who are blind or who have visual impairments to perform job functions that require the perception of information that is only visu ally discernable on a telephone.
SECTION 3. Any agency of the c ommonwealth of Massachusetts that employs Interactive Voice Response self-service applications shall include prompts that allows individuals who use TTY’s to communicate over the phone to access the self-service applications.
