Enabling Access for Persons with Visual Impairment (2025)

Global Legislation, Accessibility Practices and Assistive Technology

ATINER, 2008

This paper surveys the international legislation on disability, its local implications on accessibility practices and assistive technology. It also identifies the areas in which international disability legislation remains unimplemented, as well as such cases where existing local legislation is not effectively enforced. Accessibility standards are also discussed with special attention being paid to the relationship between disability and human rights issues. The paper also discuses the need for assistive technology and the role assistive technology has to play to create a global society which includes and disabled individuals as one group of people.

i Recommendations Regarding Accessibility For Disabled People (Analysis of provisions of the International Convention for Disabilities

eInclusion: Policies and Concepts Regarding Persons with Disabilities–Considerations about Brazil and Portugal

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. …, 2011

The International Effect of the Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities on Access in Society and Information

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Accessibility standards across the world have changed drastically since the 1970s, with many social reforms, building access requirements, and information technology being modernized to accommodate the needs of the differently abled. This paper seeks to analyze how the United Nations (UN) Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has affected the social atmosphere of various states around the world that have implemented the CRPD to various degrees. This social atmosphere consists of three core components: socio-political perceptions, laws, and information access standards within each sovereign state. Each are aspects that directly affect the quality of life afforded to persons with disabilities that are citizens of these states.

Promoting the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Policy and Programming Guide

Promoting the Human Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Policy and Programming Guide, 2013

There is a genuine and widespread lack of general understanding and policy awareness that most Persons with Disabilities (PWD) can, in fact, function effectively at work, school, and within society, if given required support. Legacies of the socialist system with its medical model of disability that believed that limitations arising from disability can potentially be prevented or managed by medical treatment of PWDs contributes to this. Therefore, it is no surprise that the medical model and charity ideology shaped these countries’motivation for special legislation, social and legal policies,corresponding programmes, and, social protection schemes.Access to services does not imply only physical services.Of course, globally, the overwhelming majority of buildings,including government institutions are not accessible to PWDs, which restricts their opportunities to exercise their rights in many areas. Multiple barriers still exist in access to employment, education, housing, health, political participation,cultural expression, entertainment, and leisure activities. Inaccessibility and prejudices in society make life difficult and prevent access to basic rights and services such as participating in political process, gaining access to justice, and engaging in meaningful economic and social activity.In fact, the UN Convention on the Rights of the Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)provides a unique normative framework and an effective legal tool for States to end this discrimination and violation of the rights of persons with disabilities – if it is implemented effectively and supported by policies and programmes to promote the active inclusion of this population. Easier said than done. The inclusion of persons with disabilities in development efforts is a question of humanrights, and the human-rights based approach is central in achieving an inclusive society,non-discrimination and to ensuring equity. It is NOT a matter of moral obligation anymore;it is our legal and developmental obligation. It is, therefore, important for all of us –individuals or institutions - to take effective steps to support the implementation of the CRPD. The constituent elements (national human rights institutions, CSOs, national agencies, judicial and quasi-judicial bodies, legislative bodies) of the national human rights systems in our respective countries have an active duty to take this up and mainstream disability issues, challenges, and, solutions into vision, strategic planning, annual work plans,budgeting and resource allocation. These are critical for achieving inclusive growth, internationally agreed development goals (i.e., Millennium Development Goals, Post-2015 Development-SDGs, Social Development Goals, etc.) and, most importantly, ensuring human dignity, human rights, social protectionand justice. In order to address such needs, existing knowledge, and capacity gaps, UNDP recently published this comprehensive Guide for both programming and advocacy. This book reflects the current research, international and regional experiences, good practices and lessons learned in ratifying the UNCRPD and its implementation. The Guide exemplifies well-coordinated sectoral policies and national programmes aligned with the CRPD.

Achieving Transformative Equality for Persons with Disabilities: Submission to the CRPD Committee for General Comment No.6 on Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

2017

Achieving Transformative Equality for Persons with Disabilities: Submission to the CRPD Committee for General Comment No.6 on Article 5 of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Manuscript submitted for publication. Oxford Human Rights Hub. http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/publications/sandra-fredman-meghancampbell-shreya-atrey-jason-brickhill-sanya-samtani-and-nomfundoramalenka-achieving-transformative-equality-for-persons-withdisabilities-submission-to-the-committee-o/ Peer reviewed version Link to publication record in Explore Bristol Research PDF-document

The UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and its interpretation

Alter, 2013

Cet article examine la Convention des Nations Unies relative aux droits des personnes handicapées (CDPH) d'un point de vue phénoménologique. Il propose de compléter l'approche juridique de la CDPH, approche dominante, en s'intéressant à la dimension extra-juridique de la construction du sens de la Convention. L'argument central est que les collectifs de personnes handicapées devraient être reconnus et admis comme parties prenantes et contributeurs importants de la communauté de ceux qui se prononcent sur l'interprétation de la CDPH et lui donnent son sens. Après une brève description de la CDPH, la première partie de l'article met en évidence l'omniprésence de l'interprétation et les limites de sa réglementation juridique. La deuxième partie explore certains facteurs extra-juridiques qui ont un impact sur l'interprétation de la CDPH. Deux cas sont considérés : l'enracinement social du travail d'interprétation du Comité de la CDPH et la politique de l'interprétation inhérente à la traduction de la CDPH dans les différentes langues. Cette dernière est étayée par la comparaison des versions anglaise, franç aise, russe et bulgare de plusieurs clauses de la CDPH. En conclusion, quelques implications méthodologiques et programmatiques sont tirées de l'analyse. On soutient, en particulier, que l'auto-organisation civique des personnes handicapées est indispensable pour garantir l'interprétation de la CDPH dans un sens émancipatoire et de changement social.

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Optional Protocol UNITED NATIONS

Rights Of Disabilities To Education, Occupation, Health, Social Welfare, And Accessibility

Jurnal Keterapian Fisik

Background: People with disabilities are those with physical or mental limitations in long term. People with disabilities have some rights they deserve such as rights to education, occupation, health, social welfare, and accessibility. Method and Subject: This research was conducted on December 2019, in Colomadu Sub District using questionnaire with cross-section design. The subject used consisted of 23 quadriplegic persons. Result: Out of 23 quadriplegic persons, the result of analysis showed significant score of 0.236 between people with disabilities and right to education, of 0.167 between people with disabilities and right to occupation, of 0.313 between people with disabilities and right to health, of 0.150 between people with disabilities and right to social welfare, and of 0.762 between people with disabilities and right to accessibility, with p > 0.05. Conclusion: The rights of people with disabilities (disability people) have not been fulfilled yet in Colomadu Sub Distr...

Lemay 1994 A review and commentary of the Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, 1994, United Nations Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development