Digital Accessibility Ethics - Again

Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

Digital Accessibility Ethics is a multi‑author collection that argues digital accessibility is fundamentally an ethics issue, not just a technical or legal one. Edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet, the book gathers 30‑plus chapters from 30+ authors across 10 countries and one commonwealth, most of whom are disabled. Together they bring more than 600 years of combined accessibility and disability advocacy experience.

At the heart of the book is the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework — an action‑oriented tool that helps organisations examine their products, policies, and AI systems through three lenses: values, actions, and questions. The chapters apply this framework to real‑world topics including AI and machine learning, global legal landscapes, gaming, smart cities, overlays, procurement, cybersecurity, open source, publishing, healthcare, higher education, audio description, and accessibility practitioner burnout.

This is essential reading for leaders, policymakers, designers, developers, researchers, educators, and anyone influencing digital technology. It’s especially suited to book‑club style reading because each chapter stands alone yet contributes to a bigger conversation: who is harmed when accessibility is ignored, and what does an ethical, disability‑centered tech future look like?

Introduction – The digital accessibility gap and why an ethics framework is needed
(author not specified in the ToC; very likely the editors as a group)

Section One – Foundation

  1. Chapter 1 – Overview of the Digital Accessibility Ethics framework
    Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert & Chancey Fleet
  2. Chapter 2 – Core concepts: disability and accessibility in this collection
    Crystal Preston‑Watson
  3. Chapter 3 – Ethical dilemmas created by artificial intelligence
    Jutta Treviranus
  4. Chapter 4 – Global legal landscape for digital accessibility
    Lainey Feingold

Section Two – Ethical Accessibility Practices

  1. Chapter 5 – “Designing with”: expanding disabled people’s power in design
    Josh Kim
  2. Chapter 6 – Building ethical accessibility into development workflows
    Léonie Watson
  3. Chapter 7 – Accessibility leadership ethics in India and worldwide
    Shilpi Kapoor
  4. Chapter 8 – Cognitive accessibility and empowering all minds
    Margaux Joffe
  5. Chapter 9 – “Don’t buy broken things”: ethical accessible procurement
    Sheri Byrne‑Haber
  6. Chapter 10 – Hackathons, student projects and accessibility ethics
    Joshua A. Miele
  7. Chapter 11 – Deaf leadership and ethical hiring in science and tech
    Jenny C. Lu & Sheila Xu
  8. Chapter 12 – Ethics of voice recognition and voice tech accessibility
    Meenakshi Das
  9. Chapter 13 – Digital accessibility ethics across Africa: progress & challenges
    Irene Mbari‑Kirika & Dr. Samuel Kabue
  10. Chapter 14 – Ethics of describing visual content and the visual world
    Nefertiti Matos Olivares & Thomas Reid
  11. Chapter 15 – Facial difference, AI bias and accessibility ethics
    Carly Findlay
  12. Chapter 16 – “Everyone Needs (At Least a Little) Accessibility Education”
    Rolando J. Méndez Fernández & Kate Sonka
  13. Chapter 17 – Accessibility overlays and the harms of “quick‑fix” marketing
    Adrian A. Roselli
  14. Chapter 18 – Accessibility practitioner burnout as an ethics issue
    Matt May

Section Three – Digital Accessibility Ethics Across Sectors

  1. Chapter 19 – Emergency preparedness with digital accessibility ethics
    Erin E. Brown
  2. Chapter 20 – Delivery robots, guide dogs and accessible emerging tech
    Haben Girma
  3. Chapter 21 – Cybersecurity that is secure and accessible by default
    Aliyu G. Yisa & Justin Merhoff
  4. Chapter 22 – Digital accessibility ethics in healthcare from both sides
    Heidi Joshi, PsyD & Dr. Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami
  5. Chapter 23 – Smart cities and ethical strategies for inclusion
    Mónica Duhem, Josefina Ocampo Guchea & James Thurston
  6. Chapter 24 – AI‑driven workplace tools and disability discrimination
    Ariana H. Aboulafia
  7. Chapter 25 – Reading, publishing and digital accessibility ethics
    Laura Brady & Daniella Levy‑Pinto
  8. Chapter 26 – Accessible democracy and voting for disabled people
    Jess Moore‑Mathews
  9. Chapter 27 – Why open source and digital accessibility need each other
    Mike Gifford
  10. Chapter 28 – Immersive tech (XR, etc.) and accessibility ethics
    Reginé Gilbert
  11. Chapter 29 – PR, marketing, accessibility and ethical practice
    Victoria Ottah Nnenna
  12. Chapter 30 – Game accessibility futures grounded in ethics
    Aderyn Thompson
  13. Chapter 31 – Public digital amenities and accessibility ethics
    Chancey Fleet
  14. Chapter 32 – Legal ethics, access to justice and digital accessibility
    Lainey Feingold

Conclusion – “What’s Next for Digital Accessibility Ethics?”
(Conclusion title from publisher ToC; author not explicitly listed, likely one or more editors)

2. All 39 authors (including editors)

Based on the Ethics Book Editors and Authors page on Lainey Feingold’s site and the Routledge table of contents, these are the 39 named authors (editors + contributors).

Editors (who also author chapters)

  • Lainey Feingold
  • Reginé Gilbert
  • Chancey Fleet

Contributing authors (alphabetical by first name)

  • Aderyn Thompson
  • Adrian A. Roselli
  • Aliyu G. Yisa
  • Ariana H. Aboulafia
  • Carly Findlay
  • Crystal Preston‑Watson
  • Daniella Levy‑Pinto
  • Dr. Heidi Joshi, PsyD
  • Dr. Oluwaferanmi O. Okanlami
  • Dr. Samuel Kabue
  • Erin E. Brown
  • Haben Girma
  • Irene Mbari‑Kirika
  • James Thurston
  • Jenny C. Lu
  • Jess Moore‑Mathews
  • Joshua A. Miele
  • Justin Merhoff
  • Kate Sonka
  • Léonie Watson
  • Laura Brady
  • Margaux Joffe
  • Matt May
  • Meenakshi Das
  • Mike Gifford
  • Mónica Duhem
  • Nefertiti Matos Olivares
  • Rolando J. Méndez Fernández
  • Sheri Byrne‑Haber
  • Sheila Xu
  • Shilpi Kapoor
  • Thomas Reid
  • Victoria Ottah Nnenna

(That’s 36 contributors + 3 editors = 39 authors total.)

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