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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in this article 85, unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Access” means the ability to receive, use, and manipulate data and operate controls included in information technology.
(1.5) “Accessible” or “accessibility” means perceivable, operable, and understandable digital content that reasonably enables an individual with a disability to access the same information, engage in the same interactions, and enjoy the same services offered to other individuals, with the same privacy, independence, and ease of use as exists for individuals without a disability.
(2) “Blind or visually impaired individual” means an individual who:
(a) Has a visual acuity of 20/200 or less in the better eye with corrective lenses or has a limited field of vision so that the widest diameter of the visual field subtends an angle no greater than twenty degrees;
(b) Has a medically indicated expectation of visual deterioration; or
(c) Has a medically diagnosed limitation in visual functioning that restricts the individual's ability to read and write standard print at levels expected of individuals of comparable ability.
(2.3) “Disability” has the same meaning as set forth in the federal “Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990”, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq., and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
(2.7) “Individual with a disability” has the same meaning as “qualified individual with a disability” as defined in subsection (5.5) of this section.
(3) Repealed by Laws 2007, Ch. 231, § 22, eff. May 17, 2007.
(4) “Information technology” means all electronic information processing hardware and software, including telecommunications.
(5) “Nonvisual” means synthesized speech, Braille, and other output methods not requiring sight.
(5.3) “Office of information technology” means the office of information technology created in section 24-37.5-103.
(5.5) “Qualified individual with a disability” or “individual with a disability” has the same meaning as set forth in the federal “Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990”, 42 U.S.C. sec. 12101 et seq., and its related amendments and implementing regulations.
(6) “State agency” means the state or any of its principal departments, agencies, or boards or commissions.
(7) “Telecommunications” means the transmission of information, images, pictures, voice, or data by radio, video, or other electronic or impulse means.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Colorado Revised Statutes Title 24. Government State § 24-85-102. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/co/title-24-government-state/co-rev-st-sect-24-85-102/
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