The Project
In 2006 the informatics research institute at the University of Salford won an award from the ESF, to determine the level of eDiscrimination present in online job application materials. The research is confined to the North West of England which has been identified as an area with a disproportionate number of disabled people outside the work force. The research team led by Dr David Kreps had argued that as Government had moved more services onto the web, because of a lack of accessibility awareness, many public sector websites were not available for disabled computer users due to inaccessible web content design. The research project drew on earlier National and European studies which highlighted how eDiscrimination negatively affected disabled people.
Latest articles
LANGUAGE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BODY - presented at International Conference on Information Systems, Montreal December 2007
LANGUAGE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE BODY Critical Research into Disability, Impairment & Web Accessibility for UK Jobseekers Dr David Kreps and Dr Peter Wheeler Information Systems, Organisations and Society Research Centre (ISOS), Informatics Research Institute, (IRIS), Abstract: ...
Interview with Tim Berners-Lee
BBC interview with the creator of the World Wide Web
