Code of Maryland Regulations
Title 14 - INDEPENDENT AGENCIES
Subtitle 33 - DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Chapter 14.33.01 - Definitions and General Provisions
Section 14.33.01.02 - Definitions
Universal Citation: MD Code Reg 14.33.01.02
Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 26, December 27, 2024
A. In this subtitle, the following terms have the meanings indicated.
B. Terms Defined
(1) "Accessible" means:
(a) Easy to get to;
(b) Approachable; or
(c) Available.
(2) "Agency" means each unit of State
government to which this subtitle is applicable in accordance with State
Finance and Procurement Article, § 3A -302, Annotated Code of Maryland,
and Regulation .01 of this chapter.
(3) "Application" means software designed to
perform, or to help the user to perform, a specific task or tasks.
(4) "Assistive technology (AT)" means any
item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially,
modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain, or improve
functional capabilities of individuals with disabilities.
(5) "Audio description", "video description",
or "descriptive narration" means narration added to a soundtrack, usually
during existing pauses in dialogue, to:
(a)
Describe important visual details that cannot be understood from the main
soundtrack alone;
(b) Inform
individuals who are blind or who have low vision about visual content essential
for comprehension;
(c) Provide
information about actions, characters, scene changes, on-screen text, and other
visual content; and
(d) Supplement
the regular audio track of a program.
(6) "Authoring tool" means any software, or
collection of software components, that can be used by authors, alone or
collaboratively, to create or modify content for use by others, including other
authors.
(7) Closed Functionality.
(a) "Closed functionality" means
characteristics that limit functionality or prevent a user from attaching or
installing assistive technology.
(b) "Closed functionality" includes
self-service machines, information kiosks, set-top boxes, fax machines,
calculators, and computers that are locked down so that users may not adjust
settings due to a policy such as desktop core configuration.
(8) "Content" means electronic
information and data, as well as the encoding that defines its structure,
presentation, and interactions.
(9)
"Department" means the Department of Information Technology.
(10) Document.
(a) "Document" means a logically distinct
assembly of content (such as a file, set of files, or streamed media) that:
Functions as a single entity rather than a collection; is not part of software;
and does not include its own software to retrieve and present content for
users.
(b) "Document" includes, but
is not limited to, letters, email messages, spreadsheets, presentations,
podcasts, images, and movies.
(11) Equivalent.
(a) "Equivalent" means fulfilling essentially
the same function or purpose upon presentation to a user.
(b) "Equivalent" fulfills essentially the
same function for a person with a disability utilizing reasonable
accommodations to the extent possible, given the nature of the disability and
the state of technology, as the primary content does for the person without a
disability.
(12)
"Existing ICT" means ICT that was procured, maintained, or used on or before
January 18, 2018.
(13) "Hardware"
means a tangible device, equipment, or a physical component of nonvisual ICT,
such as telephones, computers, multifunction copy machines, and
keyboards.
(14) "Information
technology" has the meaning set forth in
40 U.S.C.
11101(6).
(15) Information and Communication Technology
(ICT).
(a) "Information and communication
technology (ICT)" means information technology and other equipment, systems,
technologies, or processes for which the principal function is the creation,
manipulation, storage, display, receipt, or transmission of electronic data and
information, as well as any associated content.
(b) "Information and communication technology
(ICT)" includes, but is not limited to:
(i)
Computers and peripheral equipment;
(ii) Information kiosks and transaction
machines;
(iii) Telecommunications
equipment;
(iv) Customer premises
equipment;
(v) Multifunction office
machines;
(vi) Software;
(vii) Applications;
(viii) Websites;
(ix) Videos; and
(x) Electronic documents.
(16) Keyboard.
(a) "Keyboard" means a set of systematically
arranged alphanumeric keys or a control that generates alphanumeric input by
which a machine or device is operated.
(b) "Keyboard" includes tactilely discernible
keys used in conjunction with the alphanumeric keys if their function maps to
keys on the keyboard interfaces.
(17) "Label" means text, or a component with
a text alternative, that is presented to a user to identify content. A label is
presented to all users, whereas a name may be hidden and only exposed by
assistive technology. In many cases, the name and the label are the
same.
(18) "Name" means text by
which software can identify a component to the user. A name may be hidden and
only exposed by assistive technology, whereas a label is presented to all
users. In many cases, the label and the name are the same. Name is unrelated to
the name attribute in HTML.
(19)
"Nonweb software" means software that is not:
(a) A webpage;
(b) Embedded in a webpage; and
(c) Used in the rendering or functioning of
webpages.
(20) "Nonvisual
access" means the ability, through keyboard control, synthesized speech,
braille, or other methods not requiring sight, to receive, use, and manipulate
information, and operate controls necessary to access information
technology.
(21) "Operable part"
means the hardware-based user controls for activating, deactivating, or
adjusting ICT.
(22) "Platform
accessibility services" means the services provided by a platform enabling
interoperability with assistive technology, including application programming
interfaces (API) and the document object model (DOM).
(23) Platform Software.
(a) "Platform Software" means software that:
(i) Interacts with hardware or provides
services for other software;
(ii)
May run or host other software;
(iii) May isolate the other software from
underlying software or hardware layers; and
(iv) May have both platform and nonplatform
aspects.
(b) "Platform
software" includes:
(i) Desktop operating
systems;
(ii) Embedded operating
systems, including mobile systems;
(iii) Web browsers;
(iv) Plug-ins to web browsers that render a
particular media or format; and
(v)
Sets of components that allow other applications to execute, such as
applications which support macros or scripting.
(24) "Programmatically determinable" means
the ability to be determined by software from author-supplied data that is
provided in a way that different user agents, including assistive technologies,
can extract and present the information to users in different
modalities.
(25) "Public facing"
means the content made available by an agency to members of the general public,
including, but not limited to, an agency web site, blog post, or social media
page.
(26) "Software" means
programs, procedures, rules, and related data and documentation that direct the
use and operation of ICT and instruct it to perform a given task or function,
including, but not limited to, applications, non-web software, and platform
software.
(27) Software Tool.
(a) "Software tool" means software:
(i) For which the primary function is the
development of other software;
(ii)
That usually comes in the form of an integrated development environment (IDE);
and
(iii) Is a suite of related
products and utilities.
(b) "Software tool" includes Microsoft®
Visual Studio®, Apple® Xcode®, and Eclipse Foundation
Eclipse®.
(28)
"Telecommunications" means the signal transmission, between or among points
specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in
the form or content of the information as sent and received.
(29) "Terminal" means a device or software
with which the end user directly interacts and that provides the user
interface, including software that provides the user interface on more than one
device such as a telephone and a server.
(30) "Text" means a sequence of characters
that can be programmatically determined and that expresses something in human
language.
(31) "Voice over Internet
protocol (VoIP)" means technology that provides real-time voice communications
and requires a broadband connection from the user's location and customer
premises equipment compatible with Internet protocol.
(32) "Webpage" means a nonembedded resource
obtained from a single universal resource identifier (URI) using hypertext
transfer protocol (HTTP), plus any other resources that are provided for the
rendering, retrieval, and presentation of content.
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