eQuality
The Struggle for Web Accessibility by Persons with Cognitive Disabilities

This book explores the struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities.

Peter Blanck (Author), David Braddock (Foreword by)

9781316638132, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 September 2016

502 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.71 kg

'Jefferson wrote that freedom has to be secured from one generation to the next. The Web allows this and future generations of persons with disabilities opportunities to open up worlds that were previously locked away. eQuality unlocks this potential and secures freedom into the twenty-first century - a virtual civic republic.' Gerard Quinn, Professor of Law and Director of the Centre for Disability Law and Policy, National University of Ireland, Galway

Never before have the civil rights of people with disabilities aligned so well with developments in information and communication technology. The center of the technology revolution is the Internet, which fosters unprecedented opportunities for engagement in democratic society. The Americans with Disabilities Act likewise is helping to ensure equal participation in society by people with disabilities. Globally, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities further affirms that persons with disabilities are entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of fundamental personal freedoms. This book is about the lived struggle for disability rights, with a focus on Web equality for people with cognitive disabilities, such as intellectual disabilities, autism, and print-related disabilities. The principles derived from the right to the Web - freedom of speech and individual dignity - are bound to lead toward full and meaningful involvement in society for persons with cognitive and other disabilities.

Foreword David Braddock
Preface
Acknowledgments
About this book
Part I. Opening: 1. Introduction: the struggle for Web equality
2. Web content equality, the ADA, and participation in society
3. Web equality and the ADA
Part II. The Advocates' Path: 4. ADA Title III and Web equality: litigation begins
5. Web equality: second-generation advocacy
6. Future Web equality advocacy
Part III. Towards Web Equality for People with Cognitive Disabilities: 7. Web content equality and cognitive disabilities
8. Web equality in action
9. Towards Web content equality
10. Equality pocket usability
Notes
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Medical & healthcare law [LNTM], Human rights & civil liberties law [LNDC], Law & society [LAQ], Law [L], Human rights [JPVH]