Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology

✍ Scribed by Jonathan Lazar (editor); Michael Ashley Stein (editor)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 357
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology for persons with disabilities.

✦ Table of Contents

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

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