Disabled Program: Disability Resources

The Disabled Program lists here media coverage and links to organizations and related publications covering online policy issues and disabled communities. For alerts, media coverage, and publications related to incidents of online bias, discrimination, or defamation against the disabled, see the Disability SWAT Team page. More general information about online policy issues is available from the Issues bar across the top of most pages on this site.

Featured Site: OPG partner CompuMentor has a wealth of accessbility information on their TechSoup Accessible Technology page at http://www.techsoup.org/accessible_tech/

Media Coverage

	Appeals Court: Vermont Law Can't Stop Internet Sites That Discuss Sexuality
	Citing the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled that a Vermont law cannot stop a nonprofit organization and the American Civil Liberties Union from publishing information about sexuality on the Internet, Associated Press via KCBS (August 28, 2003)

	Retooling Products So All Can Use Them
	Technology developers are being forced to rethink products from photocopiers to software to meet some new requirements from one of their biggest customers: the federal government, New York Times (June 21, 2001)

	Surfing Blind
	Joyce Kasman Valenza considers Internet accessibility issues for the visually impaired, LibraryJournal.com, LibraryJournal.com (October 15, 2000)

	President Clinton's Disability "Digital Divide" Trip
	Announcement about President Clinton's "Digital Divide" tour focusing on the accessibility and usability of technologies for people with disabilities, Justice For All (September 15, 2000)

Recent Coverage

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Organizations and Related Publications

OPG Co-Hosts Bridging the Digital Divides Event Join us the week of August 25-29 as we discuss "Bridging the Digital Divides, Equal Access to the Internet" on Techsoup's Digital Divide Forum, including topics such as class-based disparity in available technology, the role race, ethnicity, and religion play in the digital divide, women and technology, the impact of Internet blocking software on the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community, and access to technology for people with disabilities, Online Policy Group (August 25, 2003)

	High Tech Center Presentations on Accessibility
	Presentations on accessibility in Macromedia Flash and Adobe PDF, High Tech Centers Training Unit of California Community Colleges (May 21, 2003)

Special Olympics Joins California Colocation Project The California Community Colocation Project (CCCP) today announced a partnership with the Special Olympics of Northern California. CCCP, a project of the Online Policy Group, provides free hosting for computer servers from nonprofit organizations, such as the server running the Special Olympics' backend database, Online Policy Group (October 3, 2002)

	DemocracyGroups
	A project to create an online directory of U.S. based electronic mail discussions and e-newsletters related to social change and democratic participation, democracygroups.org (July 20, 2002)

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines From the World Wide Web Consortium, W3C (June 26, 2002)

Recent Publications

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