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The impact of the United Nations convention on the rights of persons with disabilities

Published: 01 March 2014 Publication History

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Codifying human rights and inclusiveness in a technical context for people with disabilities.

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Cerf, V.G. Why is accessibility so hard? Commun. ACM 55, 11 (Oct. 2012), 7.
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 57, Issue 3
      March 2014
      99 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/2566590
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      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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