IT and Universal Access: It’s not only about technology. Appropriate policy and legal framework are needed.

A good piece on universal access to information and information technology, as fundamental rights, from the Center for Internet and Society India: India Needs Policy Formulation for IT and Web Accessibility. While some measures are already deployed by the Indian government to ensure universal access to information, the article highlights that current laws and policies are already outdated and not tailored for this very age of the Internet. As a result, it failed to accommodate universal and equal access for every citizen, and leave many of them from the participation in the Internet.

Read more on Wikipedia for universal design and web accessibility.

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