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Advocates tell committee state websites and materials are inaccessible to people with disabilities
Summary
Advocates told the committee Vermont.gov and agency pages lack audio/video and accessible document options, excluding people with vision, literacy or processing disabilities. Witnesses asked lawmakers to require accessibility, involve disability experts in bill drafting and improve accommodation practices.
Brenda Siegel, executive director of Advent Homelessness Vermont, told the House Energy and Digital Infrastructure Committee that state websites and documents are frequently inaccessible to people with disabilities and to people experiencing homelessness.
“We have to ask for that accommodation and then be denied it when it's literally the only way that you can do your job,” Siegel said, describing repeated requests for accessible versions of documents that were replied to…
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