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Disability News Archive
On the Media
The Digital Divide of Disability
Knowbility is an organization that advocates for technology that allows blind, deaf and otherwise disabled people to use the net. Knowbility’s Sharron Rush and Desiree Sturdevant talk about the challenges they face in raising awareness and changing the laws surrounding online usability.
Filed Under: Internet, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 508, assistive technology, public policy, technology
Areas of Interest
- adaptive sports (33)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (113)
- arts (30)
- assistive technology (13)
- autism spectrum (25)
- bipolar disorder (1)
- blog (3)
- bullying (1)
- Census (1)
- children (21)
- crime (4)
- criminal justice (3)
- dance (3)
- dementia (2)
- developmental disability (44)
- disability awareness (33)
- disaster planning (8)
- dwarfism (1)
- education (91)
- employment (79)
- end-of-life care (5)
- epilepsy (2)
- handicapped parking (9)
- healthcare (84)
- hearing impaired (13)
- higher education (26)
- housing (40)
- inclusion (28)
- Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (9)
- intellectual disability (39)
- Internet (11)
- K-12 (67)
- language (18)
- learning disability (28)
- little people (1)
- long-term care (63)
- media (16)
- migraine (1)
- military (10)
- Olmsted decision (22)
- Paralympics (6)
- parenting (5)
- physical accessibility (6)
- physical disability (75)
- politics (4)
- professional football (3)
- profile (71)
- psychiatric disability (19)
- PTSD (4)
- public policy (137)
- public safety (13)
- quadriplegic (2)
- recreation (61)
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (7)
- relationships (4)
- religion (7)
- restraints (3)
- schizophrenia (2)
- Section 508 (4)
- service animal (5)
- sexuality (4)
- sheltered work environment (3)
- Social Security (19)
- Special Olympics (3)
- technology (28)
- television (7)
- theater (1)
- transportation (15)
- traumatic brain injury (4)
- veteran (9)
- visually impaired (26)


