The following words have the meanings indicated:
- (a) "Access" means the ability to receive, use and manipulate data and operate controls included in information technology.
(b) "Blind or visually impaired individual" means an individual who:
Has a visual impairment that, even with correction, adversely affects a child’s educational performance. The term includes both partial sight and blindness.
- (c) "Information technology" means all electronic information processing hardware and software, including telecommunications.
- (d) "Nonvisual" means synthesized speech, Braille and other output methods not requiring sight.
- (e) "State agency" means the state or any of its departments, agencies or boards or commissions.
- (f) "Telecommunications" means the transmission of information, voice, or data by radio, video or other electronic or impulse means.