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2 - Access to Information Communication Technologies, Universal Design and the New Disability Human Rights Paradigm Introduced by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

Paul Harpur
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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This chapter analyses international human rights law to demonstrate that persons with print disabilities have a right to access the written word in digital formats. The primary means of realising this right to read is through using information communication technologies. Information communication technologies include the means to consume E-Books and other digital content. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘CRPD’) has swept in a new disability human rights paradigm which transforms the rights of persons with disabilities to accessible information communication technologies. The new disability human rights model rejects the negative aspects of the medical model and advances the social model and critical studies school in order to create a new understanding of how disability should be constructed by law and society. This chapter will analyse how the right to access information communication technologies enables persons with disabilities to exercise their right to read when exercising their rights to education, work, freedom of expression and participation in the cultural life of the community, and recreatio
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Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
, pp. 32 - 63
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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