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11 - United States Regulatory Interventions Targeting Disability-Inclusive Digital Environments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2017

Paul Harpur
Affiliation:
University of Queensland
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This chapter analyses federal regulatory approaches in the United States which promote disability inclusive digital environments. This chapter will analyse the 508 Standards created under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. These standards operated as an extension of existing anti-discrimination laws, and created increased obligations on federal agencies and contractors to design and purchase disability accessible information communication technologies. This chapter will then analyse the frameworks that sought to remove the barriers to inclusion by targeting upstream parties. The NIMAC targets book publishers and the 21st CVAA targeted designers and suppliers of certain digital technologies. Both of these measures seek to create digital spaces that do not disable people with impairments. While these measures will not guarantee digital equality, they represent a significant attempt to promote digital ability equality and, if enforced, will substantially improve the capacity of persons with print disabilities to access information and the written word.
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Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
Opening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled
, pp. 274 - 291
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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