Ensuring Digital Accessibility Through Process and Policy
Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy provides readers with a must-have resource to digital accessibility from both a technical and policy perspective. Inaccessible digital interfaces and content often lead to forms of societal discrimination that may be illegal under various law...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chantilly
Elsevier Science & Technology
2015
Morgan Kaufmann Morgan Kaufmann is an imprint of Elsevier |
| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9780128006467, 0128006463, 0128007109, 9780128007105 |
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Table of Contents:
- Australia -- Canada -- Standards and Guidelines in Canada -- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act -- Ireland -- France -- Germany -- Italy -- Hong Kong -- Japan -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 7: Regulations -- Introduction -- How Regulations Are Influenced by International Technical Standards -- The Role of Performance Standards -- Existing Regulations Related to Digital Accessibility -- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act -- Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act -- The Americans with Disabilities Act -- NONDISCRIMINATION on the Basis of Disability in Air Travel: Accessibility of Web Sites and Automated Kiosks at U.S. Airport ... -- Communications and Video Accessibility Act and E-book Readers -- CVAA Waivers -- Regulations in Other Countries -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 8: Evaluation methods and measurement -- Introduction -- The Role of Evaluation Methods -- The Need for Ongoing Evaluation -- Distinction Between Accessibility and Usability -- Metrics for Accessibility? -- Core Methods for Evaluation -- User Testing -- Logistics of Usability Testing Involving People with Disabilities -- Expert Inspection (Also Known as Expert Reviews) -- Automated Review -- What to Do with All of the Evaluation Data -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 9: Compliance monitoring policies and procurement -- Introduction -- Reasons Why Compliance Monitoring Is Necessary -- Compliance Monitoring Is Often Missing from Regulations -- Compliance Monitoring in Canada -- Compliance Monitoring in the United States -- Different Types of Technology and How Compliance Monitoring Differs -- Spending Money as the Trigger -- Updating Content as the Trigger -- Information About Inaccessible Content -- Proactive Guidance for Content Contributors -- Penalties for Noncompliance and Rewards for Compliance -- Updated Versioning as the Trigger for Evaluation
- Annual Reports -- Putting an IT Accessibility Plan in Place -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 10: Case studies of success -- Introduction -- Best Practices in Libraries -- Best Practices in Education -- Best Practices in Government -- Best Practices in Corporations -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 11: Culture change -- Introduction -- The Cultural Meaning of Disability -- The Predominant Disability Narrative of "Disability as Tragedy" -- The Segregating Effect of the "Tragedy Narrative" of Disability -- The Counter-Narrative: A Disability is a Trait to be Dealt with in Leading a Normal Life -- Effecting Culture Change-How to Make the Counter-narrative, Equal Opportunity, A Reality in the Context of Technology -- Clear Organizational Policies -- Creating Market Demand -- Barriers Ahead -- Educational Technology -- Mobile Computing -- Cloud Computing -- Summary -- References -- Index
- Front Cover -- Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy -- Copyright Page -- Critical Acclaim for Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy -- Table of Contents -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Introduction to accessible technology -- Introduction -- Defining Accessible Technology -- Various Types of Disabilities -- Accessibility Helps Those Without Disabilities -- Various Types of Technologies -- Mobile Devices, Apps, and Accessibility -- Accessibility in Desktop and Laptop Computers -- How does Accessibility Work? -- Accessibility in Kiosks and Voting Machines -- Accessible Technology vs. Augmentative Communication and Prosthetics -- Various Types of Policies -- How Policies and Laws Can Lead to Improved Access to Digital Information -- Summary -- A Note About the Usage of Terms -- References -- Chapter 2: The history of access technology -- Introduction -- Early History of Assistive Technologies (through the 1960s) -- The Invention of the Typewriter -- The Record Player and the Audiobook -- TTYs for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing -- The 1970s-Present -- Optical Character Recognition, Synthetic Speech, and the Flatbed Scanner -- Captioning -- Speech Recognition -- Speech Recognition and Learning Disabled Students -- Screen Reader Technology -- Assistive and Augmentative Communication -- Power Wheelchairs and Prosthetics -- Current Events and Trends -- How Accessible Technology has Crossed Over into the Mainstream -- Understanding Why/How People with Disabilities Adopt Technology -- How the Changes in Technology Over Time Must Influence Changes in Solutions -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 3: The discriminatory impact of digital inaccessibility -- Introduction -- Separate But Equal in the Context of Disability -- Same Time -- Same Price -- Same Content
- Same Time, Same Content, Same Price, And Now . . . Same Hardware and Software -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 4: Technical standards for accessibility -- Accessibility Standards -- The World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Accessibility Initiative -- Web Accessibility Standards -- The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines -- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines -- Atag 2.0 -- User Agent Accessibility Guidelines -- Relationship to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 -- Relationship to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 -- Accessible Rich Internet Application -- Epub -- Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 5: U.S. laws and lawsuits -- Introduction -- Applicability of American Laws to Technology Developers -- The Pace of Change in the Development of Technology Affects the Design of Legal Definitions of Access -- Federal Statutes that have an Impact on the Accessibility of Technology -- Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the ADA -- Public Colleges: A Case Study in the Application of Title II and 504 to Change the Behavior of Tech and Digital Content Ven ... -- Title III of the ADA-Places of Public Accommodation -- Employment-Title I of the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act -- Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act-Procurement of Accessible Technology by the U.S. Government -- The Chafee Amendment to the Copyright Act -- State Laws Applicable to Accessible Technology -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: International disability law -- Introduction -- Disability Law in the United Nations: A Brief History -- United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities -- Marrakesh Treaty -- Ratifications -- The European Union -- Statutory and Case Law on Digital Accessibility -- Spain -- United Kingdom