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Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy /
Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy provides readers with a must-have resource to digital accessibility from both a technical and policy perspective. Inaccessible digital interfaces and content often lead to forms of societal discrimination that may be illegal under various law...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waltham, MA :
Morgan Kaufmann, an imprint of Elsevier Ltd.,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover; Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy; Copyright; Critical Acclaim for Ensuring Digital Accessibility through Process and Policy ; Contents; About the Authors; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction to accessible technology; Introduction; Defining Accessible Technology; Various Types of Disabilities; Accessibility Helps Those Without Disabilities; Various Types of Technologies; Mobile Devices, Apps, and Accessibility; Accessibility in Desktop and Laptop Computers; How does Accessibility Work?; Accessibility in Kiosks and Voting Machines.
- Accessible Technology vs. Augmentative Communication and ProstheticsVarious Types of Policies; How Policies and Laws Can Lead to Improved Access to Digital Information; Summary; A Note About the Usage of Terms; References; Chapter 2: The history of access technology; Introduction; Early History of Assistive Technologies (through the 1960s); The Invention of the Typewriter; The Record Player and the Audiobook; TTYs for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; The 1970s-Present; Optical Character Recognition, Synthetic Speech, and the Flatbed Scanner; Captioning; Speech Recognition.
- Speech Recognition and Learning Disabled StudentsScreen Reader Technology; Assistive and Augmentative Communication; Power Wheelchairs and Prosthetics; Current Events and Trends; How Accessible Technology has Crossed Over into the Mainstream; Understanding Why/How People with Disabilities Adopt Technology; How the Changes in Technology Over Time Must Influence Changes in Solutions; Summary; References; Chapter 3: The discriminatory impact of digital inaccessibility; Introduction; Separate But Equal in the Context of Disability; Same Time; Same Price; Same Content.
- Same Time, Same Content, Same Price, And Now ... Same Hardware and SoftwareSummary; References; Chapter 4: Technical standards for accessibility; Accessibility Standards; The World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Accessibility Initiative; Web Accessibility Standards; The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines; Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines; Atag 2.0; User Agent Accessibility Guidelines; Relationship to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0; Relationship to the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0; Accessible Rich Internet Application; Epub.
- Applying WCAG 2.0 to Non-Web Information and Communications TechnologiesSummary; References; Chapter 5: U.S. laws and lawsuits; Introduction; Applicability of American Laws to Technology Developers; The Pace of Change in the Development of Technology Affects the Design of Legal Definitions of Access; Federal Statutes that have an Impact on the Accessibility of Technology; Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and Title II of the ADA; Public Colleges: A Case Study in the Application of Title II and 504 to Change the Behavior of Tech and Digital Content Ven ...