Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology / / ed. by Jonathan Lazar, Michael Ashley Stein.

Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implic...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Participation and Inclusion
  • Chapter 1. Standards Bodies, Access to Information Technology, and Human Rights
  • Chapter 2. Accessible ICTs and the Opening of Political Space for Persons with Disabilities
  • Chapter 3. Web Accessibility for People with Cognitive Disabilities: A Legal Right?
  • Chapter 4. The Intersection of Human Rights, Social Justice, the Internet, and Accessibility in Libraries: Access, Education, and Inclusion
  • Part II. Government and Governance
  • Chapter 5. Public Financing of Information Technology and Human Rights for People with Disabilities
  • Chapter 6. Using Provincial Laws to Drive a National Agenda: Connecting Human Rights and Disability Rights Laws
  • Chapter 7. Access to Justice
  • Chapter 8. Open Government and Digital Accessibility
  • Part III. Specific Applications and Technologies
  • Chapter 9. E- Books and Human Rights
  • Chapter 10. Accessibility and Online Learning
  • Chapter 11. Who Owns Captioning?
  • Chapter 12. Information Privacy and Security as a Human Right for People with Disabilities
  • Chapter 13. How Does Inaccessible Gaming Lead to Social Exclusion?
  • Part IV. International Development
  • Chapter 14. The Pivot Model of Policy Entrepreneurship: An Application of European Ideas in the Global South
  • Chapter 15. G. Anthony Giannoumis, Mirriam Nthenge, and Jorge Manhique
  • Chapter 16. ICT Access, Disability Human Rights, and Social Inclusion in India
  • Notes
  • Contributors
  • Index