Jusletter IT

Web Accessibility and what Law Should Look Like in Open Data Stores

  • Author: Ahti Saarenpää
  • Category of articles: Digital Law
  • Region: Switzerland
  • Field of law: Legal Theory
  • Collection: Conference proceedings IRIS 2022
  • DOI: 10.38023/c83459d0-a402-4777-abb3-8c26b300b14e
  • Citation: Ahti Saarenpää, Web Accessibility and what Law Should Look Like in Open Data Stores, in: Jusletter IT 24 February 2022
On our journey towards the Digital Network Society, we have seen the focus of legal regulation shift a number of times. As a society, we have had to make our position clear on various access rights, the processing of personal data, and for example intellectual property rights. Yet this has meant that for some time now we have overlooked the question of how we are to deal with digital information in its more technical context. One solution to the range of problems involved here was the 2016 Web Accessibility Directive. In my presentation, I will take a brief look at what official legal sources should look like in data stores if we are to meet the standard of accessibility for legal information required in the constitutional state. Legal literacy is far too valuable a pursuit for its fate to lie in haphazard national and international efforts. Too often designers of data stores do not remember the important role of official legal texts.

Table of contents

  • 1. Some steps towards digital networks
  • 2. Digital accessibility?
  • 3. Web Accessibility
  • 4. The perspective of the average citizen
  • 5. References

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