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DESCRIPTION: A smiling man walks down a hallway sweeping a long cane in front of himself.
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DESCRIPTION: He walks past us and uses the cane to navigate through cubicles.
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Text: Robert Dias, Assistive Technology Information Specialist.
DESCRIPTION: Robert sits facing us.
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SPEECH: My name is Robert Dias, and I'm with the Massachusetts Office on Disability. I've had a disability my whole life. I'm visually impaired.
Part of my primary role is to work with sister agencies to provide technical assistance surrounding digital accessibility.
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DESCRIPTION: Robert works on a laptop. He opens a video call with a woman with the Massachusetts Office on Disability, M.O.D. logo in her background.
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SPEECH: I conduct a lot of screen share sessions and reviewing digital content. I am a screen reader user, so I share my screen, I share my sound, the screen reader output, and I'm reviewing digital content in real time. So I'm that objective eye from an accessibility standpoint.
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DESCRIPTION: He scrolls through the A.D.A. dot gov website and uses his screen reader on a fact sheet.
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SPEECH: The perception, I think, from the public with the state is that everything gets done the same way. That's just not the case.
I and many of my peers who are blind, they need to be able to remain employed and be competitive in the employment space.
And when these tools aren't accessible and you've deployed something that takes me four times longer to accomplish than my sighted peers, you're affecting my livelihood.
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DESCRIPTION: A screen displays Massachusetts Executive Order six fourteen: Establishing the Digital Accessibility and Equity Governance Board.
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SPEECH: Executive order 614, the establishment of the Board is really going to help a lot of people be mindful of accessibility from the beginning.
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DESCRIPTION: A website page titled, Digital Accessibility and Equity Governance Board is displayed with a picture of Governor Maura Healey holding Executive Order Number six fourteen.
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SPEECH: I think there's a real need for this stuff. Having the digital accessibility and equity board is going to help our agencies in addressing accessibility from the ground up. That's a super win.
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Text: Learn more about A.D.A. Title II accessibility requirements.
Logo: Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Technology Services and Security.