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Restricted Access: Media, Disability, and the Politics of ParticipationMain MenuInterrogating and Integrating AccessIntroductionYou Already Know How to Use It: Technology, Disability, and ParticipationChapter 2Transformers: Accessibility, Style, and AdaptationChapter 3Content Warnings: Struggles over Meaning, Rights, and EqualityChapter 4The Net Experience: Intersectional Identities and Cultural AccessibilityChapter 5Conclusion: Collaborative FuturesConclusionAdditional ResourcesDisability Blogs, Overview of Accessibility Practices, and Accessibility ResourcesElizabeth Ellcessor071854df67577061fe7d8846d7d22971fd2a5491NYU Press
Regulating Digital Media Accessibility: #CaptionTHIS
1media/4311153913_fa63e87e9f_o.jpg2015-10-02T17:58:15-07:00Elizabeth Ellcessor071854df67577061fe7d8846d7d22971fd2a5491509224Chapter 1image_header1857332015-10-09T20:22:29-07:00Elizabeth Ellcessor071854df67577061fe7d8846d7d22971fd2a5491The first chapter considers access as it is shaped by formal and informal types of regulation. Regulation may occur through formal channels of policy and enforcement, as well as through informal procedures and community practices. In the case of web and digital media accessibility, regulation entails competing frameworks and differing understandings of what constitutes access. Most forms of regulation have focused on accessibility as primarily a technological phenomenon, involving the compatibility of hardware and software. However, this is not always the perspective taken by users of accessibility features, who may be more concerned with accessibility as a matter of rights, options, personal expression, or cultural relevance.
An overview of the kinds of accessibility practices required by these formal standards is seen in the results of running an accessibility check on The New York Times homepage.
Additionally, this chapter considers informal venues for regulation: activist communities, such as that formed by the #CaptionTHIS Twitter protest in 2013; the internal standards and best practices established by individual corporations, as well as industry organizations; and the ways in which accessibility professionals regulate their own field of practice.