{"id":155,"date":"2006-02-16T12:41:48","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T12:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/?p=155"},"modified":"2023-05-27T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T09:26:53","slug":"enabling-or-disabling-technologies-a-critical-approach-to-web-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/enabling-or-disabling-technologies-a-critical-approach-to-web-accessibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling or Disabling Technologies?: A Critical Approach to Web Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1176 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ITOP-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ITOP-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ITOP-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kreps.org\/academic\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/ITOP.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/>David published a paper in the journal\u00a0<em>Information Technology and People,\u00a0<\/em>in 2006, entitled,\u00a0&#8216;Enabling or Disabling Technologies?: A Critical Approach to Web Accessibility&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Purpose<\/span><br \/>\n\u2013 The purpose of this article is to analyse the continuing problem of web accessibility for disabled people as a critical information systems issue.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/span><br \/>\n\u2013 The ways in which the web is used by disabled people, and problems that can arise, are described and related to the development of critical disability theory from older models of disability, including the medical and social models, noting that the social construction of disability model may tend to mask the embodied, lived experience of disability.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Findings<\/span><br \/>\n\u2013 The lack of interaction of the critical disability approach and dominant discourses of web accessibility and internet studies, particularly in relation to embodiment, is a major contributor to the continuance of an inaccessible Worldwide web.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Research limitations\/implications<\/span><br \/>\n\u2013 The paper does not offer a comprehensive set of web accessibility issues, concentrating instead on the most common problems as exemplars.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Practical implications<\/span><br \/>\n\u2013 The paper raises awareness of web accessibility.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Originality\/value<\/span><br \/>\n\u2013 The paper brings the topic of accessibility of technology by disabled people into the critical information systems arena and also incorporates social construction of disability and theoretical considerations of embodiedness in its analysis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ref<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ref\">Adam, A &amp; Kreps, D (2006) &#8216;Enabling or Disabling Technologies?: A Critical Approach to Web Accessibility&#8217; in\u00a0<em>Information Technology and People <\/em>Vol. 19 Iss: 3, pp.203 &#8211; 218\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1108\/09593840610689822\">DOI:10.1108\/09593840610689822<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David published a paper in the journal\u00a0Information Technology and People,\u00a0in 2006, entitled,\u00a0&#8216;Enabling or Disabling Technologies?: A Critical Approach to Web Accessibility&#8217;. 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