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Establishing a digital inclusion officer at every city agency.

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing a digital inclusion officer at every city agency

This bill would require that each agency designate at least one employee as a digital inclusion officer who would be responsible for coordinating efforts to ensure accessibility of websites and other digital content made publicly available by such agency. Each digital inclusion officer would receive training from the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities at least annually. In addition, the Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities would be required to have at least one employee with expertise in digital accessibility who would be responsible for coordinating with the digital inclusion officers to monitor and improve the accessibility of city websites and other digital content.

Status

Filed (End of Session)

File ID

Int 0587-2022

Introduced

7/14/2022

Committee

Committee on Technology

Bill History

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