Disability Inclusion in Tech: Strategies for a new Digital Accessibility Ethics
We live in an increasingly digital world. Our devices help us find our way, our next job, love, community gathering places and much more. Artificial Intelligence (AI), robots, and virtual reality are already here. They teach that an even greater technology‑rich landscape is our future.
But is it a future for everyone? Is the digital world available to all of us?
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a new book with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.
39 authors from 10 countries have come together to share stories, strategies, and best practices for building a digital world that includes disabled people. Together they introduce the first ever Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework - a roadmap to show us the way.
Join three of these authors -- Haben Girma, Josh Miele, and Lainey Feingold -- for a critical conversation about making the digital world accessible to all of us. There will be plenty of time for audience comments and questions. Books will be available for purchase at a discounted price) and book signing.
Haben is the author of Haben: The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law. In the digital accessibility ethics book she wrote about her experience with delivery robots and the need to design all sorts of robots and all new technologies so no one is left out. Josh, the author of Connecting Dots: A Blind Life, wrote about the ethics of tech hackathons and capstone projects - what can go right and what can go very wrong.
Lainey, whose first book is Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits, is a co-editor of the collection and wrote chapters on the global accessibility legal landscape and on access to justice and legal ethics Interviews in her two chapters with people from Ethiopia, Japan, India, Canada, Sweden, Kenya, and the U.S. reflect the global nature of this collection.
Event accessibility: Local Economy is wheelchair accessible. Please let us know as soon as possible if you have any additional access needs or questions by emailing Lainey Feingold at [email protected]