Utah Digital Summit 2019

Digital accessibility is the ability of a website, mobile application or electronic document to be easily navigated and understood by a wide range of users, including those users who have visual, auditory, motor or cognitive disabilities.  If you have a policy to be digitally accessible, it means that your company is committed to ensuring its website, mobile apps, PDF documents, electronic statements and invoices and job application forms are all free of barriers that might prevent people with vision, hearing, mobility and other disabilities from using them
· Assistive software, also called adaptive software, refers to computer programs designed for specialized hardware used by physically challenged people.
· Assistive technology is a set of devices intended to help people who have disabilities
· Digital describes electronic technology that generates, stores, and processes data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive.
· Digital Equity is a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy and economy.
· Digital Equity is necessary for civic and cultural participation, employment, lifelong learning, and access to essential
· Digital Inclusion refers to the activities necessary to ensure that all individuals and communities, including the most disadvantaged, have access to and use of Information and Communication Technologies.