The UNT System Administration (System Administration) is committed to providing an environment that affords equal access and opportunity to otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities, in compliance with federal and state law. Consistent with this commitment, the System Administration strives to provide electronic and information resources (EIR) that are accessible to all members of the System Administration community and that meet the requirements as stated in Texas Administrative Code, Title 1, Part 10, Sections 206.70 and 213.
In accordance with Texas Administrative Code (TAC), the System Administration developed the EIR Accessibility Compliance Plan to assist the System Administration and component institutions comply with the rules for developing, procuring, maintaining and using electronic resources, including the development of websites.
Electronic and information resources (EIR) are information technology and any equipment or interconnected system or subsystem of equipment used in the creation, conversion, duplication, or delivery of data or information. EIR includes telecommunications products (such as telephones), information kiosks and transaction machines, World Wide Web sites, multimedia, and office equipment such as copiers and fax machines.
EIR do not include any equipment that contains embedded information technology that is used as an integral part of the product, but the principal function of which is not the acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission or reception of data or information. For example:
Departments or individuals are required to comply with EIR accessibility rules and with the System Administration EIR policy and procedures related to the development, procurement, maintenance, and use of EIR.
The System Administration has appointed an EIR Accessibility Coordinator to oversee support and maintenance of the EIR policy and coordinate training on compliance with policy 05.211 (Electronic and IR Accessibility) with the campus Institutions or their designated contact related to accessibility compliance. The EIR Coordinator reviews exception or exemption requests related to acquisition of electronic and information resources.
Purchasing monitors compliance with EIR accessibility rules, System Administration policy, and procurement procedures about purchases made under purchasing contracts, purchase orders, or Pcards.
When purchasing electronic and information resources, departments should:
All electronic and information resources developed, procured, or changed through a procured services contract, and all electronic and information resources services provided through hosted or managed services contracts, must comply with accessibility requirements.
EIR accessibility requirement hyperlinks:
To ensure that the System Administration, component institutions, and campus departments’ web pages are accessible despite physical, sensory, or environmental or technological barriers, the System Administration recommends the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which may be found at the following hyperlink: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), as the standard for web accessibility.
Web pages published or hosted for or by the System Administration must comply with 1 TAC § 206.70 including compliance with the current Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) as outlined within the requirement.
Departments have the sole responsibility for the manual inspection of their webpages to validate accessibility criteria unidentified by scanning technology and are responsible for remediation of any accessibility errors on their webpages.
Implementation of this plan will be incremental. All new web pages will be made accessible before publishing. Existing web pages will be assessed for compliance during updates or by requests from users or others.
If you encounter a web page while accessing the System Administration website, which you cannot utilize due to a disability or impairment, please contact the UNT System EIR Accessibility Coordinator via email at the following link: UNT System EIR Accessibility Coordinator, for rectification of the issue or accommodation.
Public and business partners access the System Administration website through various workstations, Internet connections, and web browser applications. To ensure that System Administration web pages are designed with consideration for the types of internet connections available, departmental web developers and publishers are responsible for the testing their web pages for accessibility and usability prior to making them available to the public.
Word, excel, and PDF documents should also be tested prior to publishing on a System Administration web page. Test web documents using the following hyperlinks for Accessibility Checking tools:
The EIR Accessibility Coordinator, with the coordination of campus assigned accessibility contacts, will offer a training program to educate the System Administration community about the need for compliance with accessibility requirements as well the policy and procedures to follow to adhere to those requirements.
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794d)
Texas Administrative Code, Title 1, 213; Accessibility Standards for Electronic and Information Resources
Texas Administrative Code, Title 1, § 206.70; Accessibility of State Websites Web Content Accessibility Guidelines,
W3C World Wide Web Consortium Recommendation AA.
UNT System Administration Policy; 05.211 Electronic and IR Accessibility