Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities.

This book introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework - an action-oriented, three-part tool designed to influence, change, and disrupt patterns of exclusion with values, actions, and questions. Thirty-nine disabled and nondisabled authors from ten countries and one commonwealth apply this framework across technologies, sectors, and countries.

The editors and authors - with over 600 years of combined accessibility and disability advocacy experience - aim to build a world that recognizes disabled people's right to fully participate in every facet of digital life and to offer organizations an ethics lens to help eliminate the financial, legal, privacy, security, health and safety, and other risks and harms of disability exclusion. Through stories, recommendations, strategies, and other guidance, this book looks at a wide range of topics through a digital accessibility ethics lens: from gaming, hackathons, design, and burnout to procurement, AI, healthcare, cybersecurity, and more. It is for technologists, educators, students, marketers, policy makers, lawyers, and everyone who believes in a digital world for all of us.

As the world grows more digital, as AI is marketed everywhere, and as the number of people with disabilities expands, there has never been a more crucial time to expose, explore, and act at the intersection of ethics, disability, and digital accessibility. Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech offers a roadmap to show us the way.

About the Author

Lainey Feingold is a globally recognized disability rights lawyer, author, and international speaker who has worked in the digital accessibility space since 1995. More information on Lainey's website at https://www.lflegal.com/

Regine Gilbert helps organizations navigate complexity through inclusive systems and emerging tech. She is the author of Inclusive Design for a Digital World (Apress, 2019; 2nd ed. 2025). More at https://reginegilbert.com/

Chancey Fleet is a Blind tech educator. A Library Journal Mover & Shaker and past Data & Society Fellow, she runs accessible tech coaching and a tactile graphics lab at the New York Public Library centering accessible learning and design for everyone. More at http://chanceyfleet.com/

Reviews

"This volume is a masterclass in digital accessibility. Its pioneering Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework equips everyone involved in technology to build disability inclusion from the outset. This book is a must-read for anyone who is involved in the design, procurement, or use of digital technologies - i.e., everyone."

Karen Nakamura, Robert and Colleen Haas Distinguished Chair in Disability Studies and Professor of Anthropology; Director, Berkeley Disability Lab

"The wide-ranging contributions to this book provide an innovative and urgent response to disability exclusion in tech -- one that focuses on ethical obligation rather than mere legal compliance."

Samuel Bagenstos, University of Michigan Law Professor; former General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

"The 39 authors and editors of Digital Accessibility Ethics remind us that the digital accessibility gap is a design issue. Most exciting, this groundbreaking collection offers a novel and actionable ethics framework -- a roadmap for tech accessibility which benefits us all."

Merve Hickok, Founder, AIEthicist.org

"This much-needed book is a sweeping, ambitious invitation for all stakeholders in the future of accessible digital technology, calling us to a disciplined, specific examination of digital life with all its opportunities and challenges. It also contains much practical advice, with a sturdy framework that will guide best practices, and it's comparative in scope, including the voices of disabled people and their many experiences with technology's virtues and pitfalls."

Sara Henderen, design researcher and author of What Can A Body Do? How We Meet the Built World

"An extensive, expansive and important book."

Graham Pullin, Professor of Design and Disability, University of Dundee, Scotland; Co-founder of Studio Ordinary and author of Design Meets Disability

"Digital Accessibility Ethics offers a timely, much needed ethical framework that moves beyond narrow legal and cost-benefit approaches, grounding digital inclusion in real-world practice across diverse local and global contexts. An important read for all!"

Jasmine E. Harris, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

"Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech provides an easy-to-understand ethics framework to help build accessible technology products and services. Written by a diverse group of accessibility and disability experts, the guidance in this book is grounded in the history of disability and technology, showing what needs to change, why these barriers exist, and how ethics can help eliminate them."

Lola Odelola, Artist & Web Standards Technologist

Book Information
ISBN 9781041018681
Author Lainey Feingold
Format Paperback
Page Count 420
Imprint CRC Press
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd