Texas Disability Law - Testing Accommodations

Texas Law

• Provides that employers using tests to evaluate job applicants must measure individual abilities and not specific disabilities.
• Provides that an employer may use alternate forms of testing for job applicants with known disabilities.
• Employers may accommodate applicants by altering the means of taking the test, including, but not limited to, oral examination, tape recorders, large print, sign language interpreters, Braille, or provision of extra time to take tests.
• Employers may not use tests that have a disproportionate, adverse effect on adults with disabilities unless the test has been validated as a predictor of success or alternate testing means are not available.

Texas Legal Citation

• Texas Human Resources Code, Section 121.010

Contact

• Texas Workforce
  (888) 452-4778; (800)735-2989 (TDD)
  

For More Information

• Job Accommodation Network
  (800) 526-7234, (877) 781-9403 (TTY)
  
• Accommodations and compliance Series: Employees with learning Disabilities
  
• Association of Higher Education and Disability in Texas
  
• HEATH Resource Center
  
• Learning Disabilities Online
  

Relevant Federal Laws

• Americans with Disabilities Act:
  Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
  (800) 669-4000; (800) 669-6820 (TTY)