Integrating the internet

dc.contributor.authorAreheart, Bradley Allan
dc.contributor.authorStein, Michael Ashley
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-26T09:40:41Z
dc.date.available2016-05-26T09:40:41Z
dc.date.issued2015-02
dc.description.abstractThis Article argues that the paradigmatic right of people with disabilities “to live in the world” naturally encompasses the right “to live in the Internet.” It further argues that the Internet is rightly understood as a place of public accommodation under antidiscrimination law. Because public accommodations are indispensable to integration, civil rights advocates have long argued that marginalized groups must have equal access to the physical institutions that enable one to learn, socialize, transact business, find jobs, and attend school. The Web now provides all of these opportunities and more, but people with disabilities are unable to traverse vast stretches of its interface. This virtual embargo is indefensible, especially when one recalls that the entire Web was constructed over the last twenty-five years and is further constructed every day. Exclusion from the Internet will cast an even wider shadow as an aging U.S. population with visual, hearing, motor, and cognitive impairments increasingly faces barriers to access. Unless immediate attention is given, the virtual exclusion of people with disabilities—and others, such as elders and non-native English speakers—will quickly overshadow the ADA’s previous achievements in the physical sphere.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentCentre for Human Rightsen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2016en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.gwlr.orgen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationAreheart, BA & Stein, MA 2015, 'Integrating the internet', George Washington Law Review, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 449-497.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0016-8076
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/52758
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherGeorge Washington Universityen_ZA
dc.rightsGeorge Washington Universityen_ZA
dc.subjectInterneten_ZA
dc.subjectPeople with disabilitiesen_ZA
dc.subjectAntidiscrimination lawen_ZA
dc.subjectPublic accomodationen_ZA
dc.titleIntegrating the interneten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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