Law, Health Policy & Disability Center Bulletin Board: Call for Articles-Information Technology and Disabilities

Call for Articles—Special Issue of Information Technology and Disabilities
Public Policy Issues: Access to Information and Information Technology

Information Technology and Disabilities invites articles for a special issue to examine public policy issues relating to access to information and information technology for persons with disabilities. Articles submitted for this special issue should focus on current and emerging concepts of individual rights to accessible information and information technology within public policy, either at the federal or state levels. Some possible
issues for consideration may include:

· The genesis and current implementation of federal Section 508 access standards
· A status report on state efforts to promote accessible IT laws
· An analysis of state accessible textbook laws
· The application of the ADA to accessible information issues
· An analysis of the proposed national Instructional Materials Accessibility Act
· An analysis of recent ADA based accessible IT court challenges
· An analysis of DOE OCR rulings on accessible educational IT
· Digital Rights Management copyright concerns vs. access technologies
This call is also available at: http://www.aspanet.org/publications/calls.html#ITD

Edited by UBB Administrator (Wed Mar 08 2006 07:57 AM)

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