HB21-1110: Colorado Laws For Persons With Disabilities
House Bill: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb21-1110
SIPA is following the State of Colorado's Technology Accessibility Guidelines
The Colorado.gov CMS platform built and managed by Tyler Colorado in accordance with the requirements identified by the Governor’s Office of Information Technology is a tool that allows all sites on the platform to attain compliance with the WCAG 2.2 AA guidelines, which is the current accessibility standard. All sites on the Colorado.gov platform are accessible for the commonly recognized accessibility features such as color contrast; the ability to use big buttons for links; keyboard navigation; and support of logical header structure to name a few. We work very closely with OIT to deploy changes to our platform to address accessibility issues or the needs of our customers. We've been in partnership with OIT on this effort since 2018 or so.
OIT Technology Accessibility Program
The Technology Accessibility Program (TAP) was created to help state agencies to provide equal access to state services, programs or activities. OIT, through TAP, gives state agencies tools and resources to implement up-to-date accessibility best practices such as:
- OIT's How to Begin with Accessibility Compliance
- Monthly Accessibility Newsletter
- Accessible PDFs and Documents
- OIT Procurement - Enterprise Agreements for IT products and services, including accessibility.
OIT Accessibility How-to Guides
Plain Language
Accessible PDFs and Documents
Page Structure
Links
Forms
Images
Accessible Meetings Checklist
How to use transcripts and captions in Google Meet
Creating an accessible Google Doc
Creating an accessible PDF from a Google Doc
Accessible Google Slides presentations
Creating an accessible PDF from a Google Slides
Make your Microsoft Word documents accessible
Make your Microsoft Powerpoint presentations accessible
OIT helps agencies take the first steps toward improving their services’ accessibility now, and keeping up to date with best practices as they continue to evolve.
Contact the Technology Accessibility Program in the Governor's Office of Information Technology at oit_accessibility@state.co.us!
OIT March 2023 Newsletter
OIT April 2023 Newsletter
OIT May 2023 Newsletter
OIT June 2023 Newsletter
OIT July 2023 Newsletter
OIT August 2023 Newsletter
Tyler Colorado tutorials for making your content accessible:
- Uploading images to the media library - add alternative text
- Adding alt-text to the YouTube videos embed code
Adobe Acrobat tutorial for making PDFs accessible:
SiteImprove tutorial
