Digital Accessibility Ethics

Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-01868-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.

The book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework – an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and questions. 39 authors from 10 countries and one commonwealth, the majority of whom are disabled, apply this Framework across technologies, sectors, and countries.

The editors and authors – with over 600 years of combined accessibility and disability advocacy experience -- aim to build a world that recognizes disabled people’s right to fully participate in every facet of digital life. And to offer organizations an ethics lens to help eliminate the financial, legal, privacy, safety, and other risks and harms of disability exclusion.

Through stories, recommendations, strategies, and other guidance, the book looks at a wide range of topics through an ethics lens: from gaming and smart cities to hackathons, procurement, and cybersecurity. From accessibility practitioner burnout, to robots, artificial intelligence, aerospace, design, healthcare, open source, emergency preparedness, legal ethics, publishing and much more.

This book is for technologists, educators, students, marketers, policy makers and everyone who has ever posted on social media or sent an email. It encourages us to stop and ask ourselves: who are we excluding by our actions? Who are we harming, what are we risking, by our decisions?

As the world grows more digital, as AI is marketed everywhere, and as the number of people with disabilities continues to grow, there has never been a more urgent time to expose, explore, and act at the intersection of ethics, disability, and digital accessibility. Digital Accessibility Ethics offers a roadmap to show us the way.

Zielgruppe

General and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleet, Chancey

Feingold, Lainey

Gilbert, Reginé

Gilbert, Regine

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Wissenschaftsethik, Technikethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Behindertensport
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Rechtsphilosophie, Rechtsethik
• Rechtswissenschaften Sozialrecht SGB-IX, Rehabilitation, Behindertenteilhabe
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: Foundation 1. Introducing the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework 2. Disability and Accessibility: Understanding the Terms at the Heart of this Collection  3. The Ethical Dilemmas of Artificial Intelligence  4. The Global Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape Part 2: Ethical Accessibility Practices  5. Designing With: Widening Power and Participation of Disabled People in the Design Process  6. Achieving Ethical Accessibility in the Development Process  7. The Ethics of Accessibility Leadership in India and Across the Globe  8. Empower All Minds: Cognitive Accessibility Ethics  9. Don’t Buy Broken Things: Ethical Accessible Procurement  10. Hackathons, Student Projects, and Digital Accessibility Ethics  11. Deaf Leaders Now! The Ethics of Hiring Disabled People in Science and Technology  12. Making Every Voice Heard: The Ethics of Voice Recognition Technology  13. Digital Accessibility Ethics in Africa: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities  14. Who Sees What? Ethics Issues in Describing the Visual World  15. Facial Difference, AI Bias, and Digital Accessibility Ethics  16. Everyone Needs (At Least A Little) Accessibility Education  17. Accessibility Overlays and the Harms of Marketing “Quick Fixes”  18. Accessibility Practitioner Burnout is an Ethics Issue  Part 3: Digital Accessibility Ethics Across Sectors  19. No One Left Behind: Digital Accessibility Ethics and Emergency Preparedness  20. When My Seeing Eye Dog and I Surprise a Delivery Robot: New Technologies Need to be Accessible, Too  21. Secure by Design, Accessible by Default: Building Cybersecurity Ethics That Include Everyone  22. From Both Sides of the Stethoscope: Digital Accessibility Ethics in Healthcare  23. Beyond Technology: Ethics and Strategies for Inclusive Smart Cities  24. Tech-Facilitated Disability Discrimination and Artificial Intelligence Tools at Work  25. Who Gets to Read, Who Gets to Publish? Digital Accessibility Ethics for Authors, Journalists, and Publishers  26. Democracy for All: Addressing Accessibility Challenges for Disabled Voters  27. Digital Accessibility and Open Source Need Each Other  28. Immersive Technology Needs Digital Accessibility Ethics  29. Public Relations, Marketing, Accessibility, and Ethics  30. The Future of Game Accessibility is Grounded in Ethics  31. Digital Accessibility and Public Digital Amenities  32. Legal Ethics, Access to Justice, and the Need for Digital Accessibility Conclusion: What’s Next for Digital Accessibility Ethics?

Über Autor(innen)

Lainey Feingold is a globally recognized disability rights lawyer, author, and international speaker who has worked in the digital accessibility space since 1995. She helped negotiate the first web accessibility agreement in the United States in 2000 and has worked with the blind community and dozens of companies on accessibility initiatives since then. More information on Lainey’s website at https://www.lflegal.com/

Reginé Gilbert helps people and organizations reimagine possibilities at the intersection of inclusive design, emerging technology, and transformational change. Her research explores how inclusive design principles can guide the development of artificial intelligence, immersive realities, and spatially aware systems to better serve diverse communities. Reginé is an author and a recognized voice in the field of Design, featured in numerous publications. Reginé Gilbert website: https://reginegilbert.com/.

Chancey Fleet is a Brooklyn-based tech educator and activist who identifies as Blind. Chancey is the Assistive Technology Coordinator at the New York Public Library. Chancey is a 2018-19 Data & Society Fellow and current Affiliate-in-Residence whose writing, organizing and advocacy aims to catalyze critical inquiry into how cloud-connected accessibility tools benefit and harm, empower and expose communities of disability. Her writing has appeared in Urban Omnibus and MIT Technology Review.