Introduction to this special issue: Disability, law and public policy, and the world wide web

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Article provides an overview of a special journal issue that highlights how information and communications technology in general, and the Internet in particular, has fundamentally changed the way in which people with and without disabilities, participate politically, socially, and culturally within a global network of dispersed communities. The included articles examine the implications and promise of the web for people with disabilities across the life span, and from a variety of disciplinary and internationally comparative perspectives. They build on the Americans with Disabilities Act and Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities principles of web content equality, which include full and equal enjoyment of digital knowledge for people with disabilities. Taken together, the articles in this special issue contribute to disability rights scholarship and advocacy.

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