Disability and new media /
Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Disability and New Media examines how digital design is triggering disability when it could be a solution. Video and animation now play a prominent role in the World Wide Web and new types of protocols have been developed to accommodate this increasing complexity. However, as this has happened, the potential for individual users to control how the content is displayed has been diminished. Accessibility choices are often portrayed as merely technical decisions but they are highly political and betray a disturbing trend of ableist assumption that serve to exclude people with disability. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 172 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203831915 (electronic bk.) 0203831918 (electronic bk.) |