Fostering Accessible Technology Through Regulation

ISBN-13: 9780367074791 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 196 str.

Delia Ferri; G. Anthony Giannoumis

Opis

This book focuses on active citizenship for persons with disabilities through the use of new technology. It attempts to grasp which regulatory options facilitate the production and marketing of accessible technology in an effort to realize an inclusive and accessible internal market for all European citizens, resulting in a synergistic opportunity to move science and society forward.

Spis treści

Preface Introduction: Fostering accessible technology and sculpting an inclusive market through regulation 1. Disability, right to culture and copyright: which regulatory option? 2. Robotic prostheses as products enhancing the rights of people with disabilities. Reconsidering the structure of liability rules 3. Does accessible technology need an ‘entrepreneurial state’? The creation of an EU market of universally designed and assistive technology through state aid 4. Public procurement as a means to achieving social gains – progress and challenges in European legislation and standards for accessible information and communication technology 5. Transnational convergence of public procurement policy: a ‘bottom-up’ analysis of policy networks and the international harmonisation of accessibility standards for information and communication technology 6. Enforcing eAccessibility: is the current legal framework adequate? 7. A legal perspective on body implants for therapy and enhancement 8. Assistive technology as support for the exercise of legal capacity