1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Veterans Accessibility Act of 2023 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) More than one-quarter of veterans in the United States have a service-connected disability. (2) Common disabilities among veterans include traumatic brain injury, hearing loss, blindness or vision loss, and spinal cord injuries and disorders. (3) More than 60,000,000 adults in the United States have a disability, including veterans, employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and people who might seek information from the Department for a veteran. (4) There were 125,763 veterans employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs, including 70,209 veterans with a disability, in fiscal year 2020, according to the Office of Personnel Management. (5) There are projected to be at least 80,000,000 people age 65 or older in the United States by 2040, twice the number than in 2000. Older adults experience higher rates of disability than younger adults. (6) More than 46 percent of veterans in the United States are 65 years old or older. (7) Physical, electronic, information, and communications technology must be accessible to ensure equal access to information and services at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Such accessibility will grow in importance as the population of the United States ages and develops disabilities and new technologies are deployed. (8) Congress has required accessibility of daily life by passing laws such as the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 ( 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq. ), sections 501, 504, and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 ( 29 U.S.C. 791 , 794, and 794d), the Plain Writing Act of 2010 ( 5 U.S.C. 301 note), the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 ( Public Law 90–480 ), and the 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act ( 44 U.S.C. 3501 note). (9) Recent oversight conducted by the Special Committee on Aging of the Senate found that the Department of Veterans Affairs has not consistently made its electronic information technology accessible for people