Peter Blanck
2014
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This special issue, entitled “Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web,” is meant to highlight how information and communications technology (ICT) in general, and the Internet’s World Wide Web (hereafter “web”) in particular, has fundamentally changed the way in which we all, with and without disabilities, participate politically, socially, and culturally within a global network of dispersed communities. Although there is a substantial literature on the web and related law and public policy, fewer articles have examined the implications and promise of the web for persons with disabilities over the life course, and from a variety of disciplinary and internationally comparative perspectives.
This issue is especially timely, given ongoing debates in academic, legal, and policy circles about the importance of the web to democratic society and to the values of active citizenship, particularly for those individuals with disabilities who, historically, have been disenfranchised from meaningful public participation. Related questions about the full and equal enjoyment of the web are raised that consider the reach and breadth of web accessibility technical standards and performance criteria to make it available and usable to persons with disabilities.
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Peter Blanck. (2014). Introduction to this Special Issue: Disability, Law and Public Policy, and the World Wide Web. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/bsl.2106.
Keywords: ADA Amendments Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, accessibility, web accessibility