{"id":135,"date":"2006-09-16T11:57:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-16T11:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=135"},"modified":"2023-05-27T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T09:27:06","slug":"web-accessibility-a-digital-divide-for-the-disabled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/web-accessibility-a-digital-divide-for-the-disabled\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Accessibility: A Digital Divide for the Disabled?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1030\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/socialinclusion-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/socialinclusion-100x150.jpg 100w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/socialinclusion-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/socialinclusion-683x1024.jpg 683w, http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/socialinclusion.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/>David published a chapter in the book, <em>Social Inclusion: Societal &amp; Organizational Implications for Information Systems<\/em>, in 2006, which was the proceedings of the IFIP8.2 conference of that year, entitled: &#8216;Web Accessibility: A Digital Divide for the Disabled?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: The focus of this paper is web accessibility for disabled people. Much of the web remains inaccessible or difficult to access by people across a spectrum of disabilities and this may have serious implications for the potential use of the web for increasing social inclusion. The topic of disabled web access is introduced through a consideration of four discourses \u2013 digital divide, social construction of disability, legal discourse and the web accessibility discourse. The lack of dialogue between these permits a passive liberal approach towards disability discrimination to prevail and this political position has become \u2018inscribed\u2019 in widely used automatic software tools resulting in a reinforcement of the view that web site accessibility approval may, in many cases, be deemed an \u2018empty shell\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ref<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">Adam, A &amp; Kreps, D (2006) &#8216;Web Accessibility: A Digital Divide for the Disabled?&#8217; Transactions of IFIP 8.2,\u00a0<em>Social Inclusion: Societal &amp; Organizational Implications for Information Systems,<\/em>\u00a0Volume 208 Springer. <a href=\"http:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007%2F0-387-34588-4_15\">DOI: 10.1007\/0-387-34588-4_15<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David published a chapter in the book, Social Inclusion: Societal &amp; Organizational Implications for Information Systems, in 2006, which was the proceedings of the IFIP8.2 conference of that year, entitled: &#8216;Web Accessibility: A Digital&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[14,16,10],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapters","tag-accessibility","tag-inclusion","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}