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Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT) and Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA) reiterated on Friday their insistence that the Department of Veterans Affairs do more to make the agency’s websites and information technology accessible to people with disabilities.

The lawmakers sent a letter to VA Secretary Denis McDonough urging the agency to accelerate its efforts to remediate long-standing accessibility issues and provide consistent transparency into which of the VA’s websites are not yet accessible.

Friday’s letter was a written answer to the secretary’s July 31 response to the lawmakers’ previous letter regarding VA compliance with Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which requires federal websites and other federal electronic and information technology to be accessible for people...

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