Digital Accessibility Ethics

Written By Laura Brady

A new anthology is coming soon!

I am beyond delighted to announce that I have co-written a chapter with Daniella Levy-Pinto (NNELS) in this amazing forthcoming book, Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. It is edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet and published by Taylor & Francis in March 2026.

Why this anthology and why now? The introduction spells this out very plainly:

Over 65 percent of the global population uses the internet, and a higher percentage owns a mobile device. At last count, more than 8 million mobile applications have been downloaded over 200 billion times.

Yet even as these numbers continue to climb, the digital environment is not available to everyone. More than one billion people with disabilities across the globe struggle with technology and content they cannot easily use, or use at all, because accessibility is lacking.

We think an ethics lens can help change this story.

This book is an astonishing collection by accessibility powerhouses from around the world. The book is an edited collection with a global reach. It has 32 chapters written by 36 disabled and non-disabled authors from 10 countries and 1 commonwealth. The three editors also wrote chapters.

Those of us labouring away in this space know that there is nothing quite like this collection in the marketplace making this a valuable addition to our libraries. The book introduces the first even Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework. The goal of the ethics framework, and the goal of the book, is to help make the digital world more accessible to disabled people across the globe and to help organizations mitigate the risks of disability exclusion. The framework uses a set of values, actions and questions to help guide readers toward ethical disability inclusion in all things tech.

A little more from the introduction:

Decades of accessibility work, and the laws, treaties, regulations, and standards that support it, have brought progress. Much of it significant. Yet despite the effort and commitment of tens of thousands, there remains a disconnect, a friction between disabled people and too much of today’s technology and digital content.

As the world grows more digital, as AI is marketed everywhere, and as the number of people with disabilities exceeds one billion, there has never been a more urgent time to expose, explore, and act at the intersection of ethics, disability, and digital accessibility. This book offers a roadmap to show us the way.

For the social media minded among you, one of the authors, Margaux Joffe, created this fantastic video introduction to the book.

There has never been a more urgent time to expose, explore, and act at the intersection of ethics, disability, and digital accessibility.

Table of Contents

As a preview of the content, the table of contents is available both on the publisher’s product listing for the book and below. Just look at those author names! I blush to be included in such lauded company!

Introduction: The Digital Accessibility Gap and the Need for an Ethics Framework

Section One: Foundation

Section Two: Ethical Accessibility Practices

Section Three: Digital Accessibility Ethics Across Sectors

Conclusion: What’s Next for Digital Accessibility Ethics?

The Cover

The painting on the cover was created by Ana Maria Vidalon, a Spanish-speaking artist with a disability originally from Peru. It is colourful and engaging and does exactly what a good cover should do: draws readers in.

Preorder links

Canadian readers can pre-order the book from all the usual suspects: Indigo, Amazon, and the indie bookshop Another Story. Please consider asking for it at your favourite bookseller.

In the United States, readers can pre-order from Bookshop.org or Amazon.


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