Book contents
- Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the E-Book for the Print-Disabled
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 How Technology Has Created the Possibility of Opening the Book: From Hard Copy to E-Books
- 2 Access to Information Communication Technologies, Universal Design and the New Disability Human Rights Paradigm Introduced by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- 3 The Weakening of the Exception Paradigm: The World Intellectual Property Organization Changes Path with the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled
- 4 The Role of Copyright Laws in Restricting Access to Information and Contributing to the Book Famine
- 5 Exceptions to Rights-Holders’ Exclusivity Provides Limited Relief from the Disabling Impact of Copyright
- 6 Anti-Discrimination Laws Help Protect Persons with Disabilities against Digital Disablement, but Who Qualifies for Protection?
- 7 Causing Digital Disablement Is Not a Trigger for Regulation by Anti-Discrimination Laws: Ignoring Capacity in Favour of Prescribed Relationships
- 8 The Prohibition against Discrimination: Regulating for Equality through Retrofitting Inaccessible Systems
- 9 Introducing Positive Duties in Promoting Equality Outcomes for Persons with Disabilities: The United Kingdom Public Sector Equality Duty Reducing Digital Disablement
- 10 The Right to Digital Equality in Action: Protections under the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and Human Rights Acts
- 11 United States Regulatory Interventions Targeting Disability-Inclusive Digital Environments
- 12 The Enforcement of Legal Duties: Protecting Copyright or Promoting Reading Equality?
- Closing Thoughts and New Options to Reduce Digital Disablement
- Appendix: List of Anti-Discrimination and Civil Rights Laws and Tribunals/Commissions Impacting on Disability in the Federal and State/Province Jurisdictions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States
- Index
11 - United States Regulatory Interventions Targeting Disability-Inclusive Digital Environments
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2017
Book contents
- Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the E-Book for the Print-Disabled
- Cambridge Disability Law and Policy Series
- Discrimination, Copyright and Equality
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 How Technology Has Created the Possibility of Opening the Book: From Hard Copy to E-Books
- 2 Access to Information Communication Technologies, Universal Design and the New Disability Human Rights Paradigm Introduced by the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- 3 The Weakening of the Exception Paradigm: The World Intellectual Property Organization Changes Path with the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled
- 4 The Role of Copyright Laws in Restricting Access to Information and Contributing to the Book Famine
- 5 Exceptions to Rights-Holders’ Exclusivity Provides Limited Relief from the Disabling Impact of Copyright
- 6 Anti-Discrimination Laws Help Protect Persons with Disabilities against Digital Disablement, but Who Qualifies for Protection?
- 7 Causing Digital Disablement Is Not a Trigger for Regulation by Anti-Discrimination Laws: Ignoring Capacity in Favour of Prescribed Relationships
- 8 The Prohibition against Discrimination: Regulating for Equality through Retrofitting Inaccessible Systems
- 9 Introducing Positive Duties in Promoting Equality Outcomes for Persons with Disabilities: The United Kingdom Public Sector Equality Duty Reducing Digital Disablement
- 10 The Right to Digital Equality in Action: Protections under the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms and Human Rights Acts
- 11 United States Regulatory Interventions Targeting Disability-Inclusive Digital Environments
- 12 The Enforcement of Legal Duties: Protecting Copyright or Promoting Reading Equality?
- Closing Thoughts and New Options to Reduce Digital Disablement
- Appendix: List of Anti-Discrimination and Civil Rights Laws and Tribunals/Commissions Impacting on Disability in the Federal and State/Province Jurisdictions in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States
- Index
Summary
This chapter analyses federal regulatory approaches in the United States which promote disability inclusive digital environments. This chapter will analyse the 508 Standards created under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. These standards operated as an extension of existing anti-discrimination laws, and created increased obligations on federal agencies and contractors to design and purchase disability accessible information communication technologies. This chapter will then analyse the frameworks that sought to remove the barriers to inclusion by targeting upstream parties. The NIMAC targets book publishers and the 21st CVAA targeted designers and suppliers of certain digital technologies. Both of these measures seek to create digital spaces that do not disable people with impairments. While these measures will not guarantee digital equality, they represent a significant attempt to promote digital ability equality and, if enforced, will substantially improve the capacity of persons with print disabilities to access information and the written word.
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- Discrimination, Copyright and EqualityOpening the e-Book for the Print-Disabled, pp. 274 - 291Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017