Review of Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology by Jonathan Lazar and Michael Ashley Stein.

Autor: Oswal, Sushil K., Lewiecki-Wilson, Cynthia
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Zdroj: Disability Studies Quarterly; Winter2021, Vol. 41 Issue 1, pN.PAG-N.PAG, 1p
Abstrakt: Keywords: accessibility; disability law; HCI; technology EN accessibility disability law HCI technology N.PAG N.PAG 1 04/03/21 20210101 NES 210101 This edited collection of sixteen essays grows out of a 2015 Harvard conference on "legal questions at the intersection of human-computer interaction and disability rights law in the United States" (4). Reading as disability studies scholars with backgrounds in rhetoric and accessible design, we notice several gaps in this collection that suggest the authors could have gone farther to root their discussion in human rights and disability law. Chapter 3 covers the important, and often neglected, topic of web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities, concluding that "many presupposed barriers to web equality not only are surmountable but also are capable of resolution for individuals with diverse intellectual and developmental impairments" (48). [Extracted from the article]
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