Disability and discourses of web accessibility

A Adam, D Kreps - Information, Communication & Society, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Much of the World Wide 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 accessibility: a digital divide for disabled people?

A Adam, D Kreps - … Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for …, 2006 - Springer
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 …

Bridging disability divides: A critical history of web content accessibility through 2001

E Ellcessor - Information, communication & society, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This paper takes a disability studies perspective on the history of the development of web
content accessibility policies in the United States. Using procedural documents, popular …

Enabling or disabling technologies? A critical approach to web accessibility

A Adam, D Kreps - Information Technology & People, 2006 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this article is to analyse the continuing problem of web accessibility
for disabled people as a critical information systems issue. Design/methodology/approach …

The challenges of Web accessibility: The technical and social aspects of a truly universal Web

J Brown, S Hollier - 2015 - ro.ecu.edu.au
This paper explores the concept of Web accessibility and how technologies, guidelines and
policies have evolved since the turn of the twenty-first century in order to address the ideals …

Web accessibility standards and disability: developing critical perspectives on accessibility

S Lewthwaite - Disability and Rehabilitation, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Currently, dominant web accessibility standards do not respect disability as a
complex and culturally contingent interaction; recognizing that disability is a variable …

Practitioner barriers to diffusion and implementation of web accessibility

G Farrelly - Technology and disability, 2011 - content.iospress.com
As people increasingly integrate online activities into their daily lives, disabled people are
often impeded from accessing websites due to code and design barriers. Despite guidelines …

Contextual web accessibility-maximizing the benefit of accessibility guidelines

D Sloan, A Heath, F Hamilton, B Kelly, H Petrie… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - dl.acm.org
We argue that while work to optimize the accessibility of the World Wide Web through the
publication and dissemination of a range of guidelines is of great importance, there is also …

Developing countries; developing experiences: approaches to accessibility for the real world

B Kelly, S Lewthwaite, D Sloan - Proceedings of the 2010 international …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
The need for developing countries to consider appropriate strategies for enhancing access
to networked resources by disabled people provides an opportunity to assess the merits and …

[HTML][HTML] Internet accessibility and disability policy: lessons for digital inclusion and equality from Australia

G Goggin, S Hollier, W Hawkins - Internet Policy Review, 2017 - policyreview.info
In the fifth decade of the internet, accessibility for all, especially those with disabilities, is
central to digital inclusion. Yet internationally, the score card on internet and accessibility …