FodnessMemo13


 * **Aims** || **Questions** || **Data Collection** || **Emerging Arguments** || **Literatures** ||
 * Consolidate knowledge and analysis of policies and practices regarding IT and disability in one volume || What policies and practices exist? How are these policies and practices informed by the experiences of the disabled? Are the policies and practices intended to be active or passive controls? || Read policies and procedures from federal and state legislatures as well as the private sector - browser manufacturers, code writing applications, etc. || The current policies are lackluster or nonexistent. Practices at many corporations and educational institutions do not do enough to address disability. || Policy analysis & criticism. ||
 * Generate accessible accounts of interactions with IT environments by those with disabilities || Interview questions for the disabled: What IT devices and systems do you interact with? Could you describe your experiences with working with those devices? || Interviews with individuals with various disabilities that impact their use of IT. || Individuals with disabilities are gaining a voice in speaking out about their experiences following the Target vs. NFB lawsuit of 2006. || Ethnography of disabled individuals and groups using IT. ||
 * Generate policy recommendations for improving the accessibility of IT devices and environments for individuals with disabilities in as painless and effective a fashion as possible || In what ways is IT currently constructed as a limiting mechanism for individuals with disabilities? || Interviews with individuals with various disabilities that impact their use of IT, lawmakers, and disability advocates. || Injustices of individuals with disabilities are emerging through advocacy groups more now than they have in the past. || Lessig (impacts of structure of cyberspace on various individuals, code structures environment); Norman (user-centered design arguments) ||
 * Generate new knowledge about the injustices of non-accessible software design || What areas need improvement in existing policy? What areas need to be created from scratch? What can be done to improve IT education in colleges and universities? || Current policies and procedures, recommendations from interviewees with disabilities, recommendations from advocacy groups, personal recommendations. || Current policies and procedures in the federal, state, and corporate sectors do not do enough to address the needs of individuals with disabilities. || Lessig & Norman, general policy recommendation frameworks ||