HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2254        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2754

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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PRESENTED BY:

Bradford R. Hill

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To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled:

The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the adoption of the accompanying bill:

An Act relative to accessible electronic information technology for persons with disabilities.

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PETITION OF:

 

Name:

District/Address:

Date Added:

Bradford R. Hill

4th Essex

1/15/2015

Bruce E. Tarr

First Essex and Middlesex

12/2/2019

Patricia A. Haddad

5th Bristol

2/3/2015

Susan Williams Gifford

2nd Plymouth

12/2/2019

Kimberly N. Ferguson

1st Worcester

1/20/2015

Leonard Mirra

2nd Essex

1/16/2015

Elizabeth A. Poirier

14th Bristol

12/2/2019

Leah Cole

12th Essex

12/2/2019

Donald H. Wong

9th Essex

12/2/2019

Shawn Dooley

9th Norfolk

1/22/2015

Susannah M. Whipps Lee

2nd Franklin

1/20/2015

Marjorie C. Decker

25th Middlesex

12/2/2019

Joan B.  Lovely

Second Essex

12/2/2019


HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 2254        FILED ON: 1/15/2015

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2754

By Mr. Hill of Ipswich, a petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 2754) of Bradford R. Hill and others relative to accessible electronic information technology for persons with disabilities.  State Administration and Regulatory Oversight.

 

[SIMILAR MATTER FILED IN PREVIOUS SESSION
SEE HOUSE, NO. 2818 OF 2013-2014.]

 

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

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In the One Hundred and Eighty-Ninth General Court
(2015-2016)

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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:
 

Section1. Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, each division and agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts shall be directed to activate all TTY Messaging ideally for each active mailbox, but in the minimum assigning at least one TTY enabled mailbox for each member’s office and administrative unit of government;

Any work group that employs or may employ individuals with visual impairments should be required to download and install helper applications that allow individuals who are blind or who have visual impairments to work job functions that require the perception of information that is only visually discernable on a telephone; agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that employs Interactive Voice Response self-service applications should be required to include prompts that allows individuals who use TTY’s to communicate over the phone to access the self-service applications.