1st Edition

Rhetorical Accessability At the Intersection of Technical Communication and Disability Studies

Edited By Lisa Meloncon Copyright 2013
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Rhetorical Accessability is the first text to bring the fields of technical communication and disability studies into conversation. The two fields also share a pragmatic foundation in their concern with accommodation and accessibility, that is, the material practice of making social and technical environments and texts as readily available, easy to use, and/or understandable as possible to as... Read more

Introduction
Lisa Meloncon

 CHAPTER 1. Embracing Interdependence: Technology Developers, Autistic Users, and Technical Communicators
Kimberly Elmore

 CHAPTER 2. Designing for People Who Do Not Read Easily
Caroline Jarrett, Janice (Ginny) Redish, and Kathryn Summers

 CHAPTER 3. Toward a Theory of Technological Embodiment
Lisa Meloncon

 CHAPTER 4. Supercrips Don’t Fly: Technical Communication to Support Ordinary Lives of People With Disabilities
Margaret Gutsell and Kathleen Hulgin

 CHAPTER 5. The Care and Feeding of the D-Beast: Metaphors of the Lived Experience of Diabetes
Lora Arduser

 CHAPTER 6. Accessibility and the Web Design Student
Elizabeth Pass

 CHAPTER 7. Accessibility Challenges for Visually Impaired Students and Their Online Writing Instructors
Sushil K. Oswal and Beth L. Hewett

 CHAPTER 8. Disability, Web Standards, and the Majority World
Sarah Lewthwaite and Henny Swan

 CHAPTER 9. Web Accessibility Statements: Connecting Professional Writing, Corporate Social Responsibility, and Burkean Rhetoric
Antoinette Larkin

 CHAPTER 10. Accessibility as Context: The Legal, Fiscal, and Social Imperative to Deliver Inclusive e-Content
Lisa Pappas

 CHAPTER 11. Resources
Allison Maloney

Meet the Contributors

 Index
 

 

Biography

Lisa Meloncon