Research Catalog

Title

Disability, human rights, and information technology / edited by Jonathan Lazar and Michael Ashley Stein.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lazar, Jonathan
• Stein, Michael Ashley
• Brewer, Judy.

Description

xi, 345 pages; 24 cm

Series Statement

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Uniform Title

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Subjects

• Communication devices for people with disabilities
• Right to Internet access
• Accessible Web sites for people with disabilities
• Computers and people with disabilities
• Information technology > Social aspects
• People with disabilities > Services for > Government policy
• People with disabilities > Civil rights
• Discrimination against people with disabilities
• Assistive computer technology > Law and legislation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Standards bodies, access to information technology, and human rights / Judy Brewer -- Accessible ICTs and the opening of political space for persons with disabilities / Janet E. Lord -- Web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities : a legal right? / Peter Blanck -- Intersection of human rights, social justice, the internet, and accessibility in libraries : access, education, and inclusion / Paul T. Jaeger, Brian Wentz, and John Carlo Bertot -- Public financing of information technology and human rights for people with disabilities / Deborah Kaplan -- Using provincial laws to drive a national agenda : connecting human rights and disability rights laws / Ravi Malhotra and Megan A. Rusciano -- Access to justice / Fredric I. Lederer -- Open government and digital accessibility / Timothy Elder -- E-books and human rights / Jim Fruchterman -- Accessibility and online learning / Mary J. Ziegler and David Sloan -- Who owns captioning? / Raja Kushalnagar -- Information privacy and security as a human right for people with disabilities / Jonathan Lazar, Brian Wentz, and Marco Winckler -- How does inaccessible gaming lead to social exclusion? / Joyram Chakraborty -- Pivot model of policy entrepreneurship : an application of European ideas in the global South / G. Anthony Giannoumis, Mirriam Nthenge, and Jorge Manhique -- Accessibility infrastructure and the global South / Joyojeet Pal -- ICT access, disability human rights, and social inclusion in India / Sanjay S. Jain.

Call Number

JFE 17-8214

ISBN

• 9780812249231
• 0812249232

LCCN

• 2017005986
• 40027275946

OCLC

959593751

Title

Disability, human rights, and information technology / edited by Jonathan Lazar and Michael Ashley Stein.

Publisher

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Pennsylvania studies in human rights

Pennsylvania studies in human rights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Lazar, Jonathan, editor.

Stein, Michael Ashley, editor.

Container of (work): Brewer, Judy. Standards bodies, access to information technology, and human rights.

Other Standard Identifier

40027275946

Research Call Number

JFE 17-8214