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Arizona State Digital Accessibility Requirements

The Arizona Department of Administration – Arizona Strategic Enterprise Technology Office (ADOA-ASET) has developed a policy for digital accessibility. The policy states: “To provide an accessibility model in which web content authors, format designers, and software developers within State agencies understand their roles in providing persons with disabilities, access to existing and developing State web sites. The following web page designs and features for completing the accessibility model are to be addressed for all State web sites.”

Requirements are as follows:

  • GRAPHICS Simple images; linked images; content images; graphical text; ASCII Art; list bullets; spacer images; animated graphics-text equivalent; animated graphics-frame rate.
  • INFORMATION IN COLOR Information in color; color contrast.
  • MOVING CONTENT Static background color; moving text.
  • DOWNLOADABLE FILES Graphics in downloadable files; PDF files.
  • REPETITIVE CONTENT Skipping navigation links.
  • DATA TABLES Identifying row and column headers; using SCOPE to group table cells.
  • MULTIMEDIA Sounds 10; speech-short clips (up to 60 seconds); speech-long clips; video-short clips (up to 10 seconds); video-long clips.
  • IMAGE MAPS Image map graphics-text equivalent; client-side image map regions; server-side image map regions.
  • STYLE SHEETS Style sheets.
  • FORMS Forms-label placement; forms-associating labels and controls; forms-time responses.
  • SCRIPTS Scripts-text equivalents; scripts-keyboard accessibility.
  • APPLETS and PLUG-INS Applets and plug-ins-links; applets and plug-ins-text equivalent information or functionality.
  • FRAMES Frames-labeling; frames-NOFRAMES elements.
  • KEYBOARD CONTROL Keyboard control.
  • TEXT-ONLY PAGES Text-only versions.
  • BIOMETRIC IDENTIFICATION Alternative identification.
  • EQUIVALENT FACILITATION Equivalent access.

Public Accommodation Laws

No individual may be discriminated against on the basis of disability in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations of any place of public accommodation by any person who owns, leases, leases to others or operates a place of public accommodation.

Violation Penalties

Plaintiffs may recover actual and compensatory damages, including damages for emotional distress, in addition to court costs. If it’s appropriate to vindicate public interest, a penalty of up to $5,000 for first-time violations or up to $10,000 for repeat violations against the party responsible for the violation.

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