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Inclusive Design for Accessibility: A Practical Guide to Digital Accessibility, UX, and Inclusive Web & App Design
Cruse, Dale; Boudreau, Denis (2025)

Despite our growing reliance on digital technology, millions of users are still excluded from fully engaging with websites, apps, and digital services because nobody thought to design for them. Inclusive Design for Accessibility challenges you to rethink how you build digital experiences, offering the tools and guidance needed to move beyond compliance and create experiences that work for everyone. 

With contributions from twelve accessibility leaders—Dale Cruse, Denis Boudreau, Dr. Angela Young, Maya Sellon, Julianna Rowsell, Nandita Gupta, Jennifer Chadwick, Crystal Scott, Chris McMeeking, Dr. Keith Newton, Charlie Triplett, and Kai Wong—this book lays out the fundamentals of inclusive design and its application in advanced and emerging technologies. You'll discover practical strategies and real-world examples that show you how to embed accessibility into projects, from user research and testing to creating accessible websites and mobile apps. You’ll also focus on how AI can enhance accessibility and learn to tackle the challenges posed by VR and AR. - Publisher's Description

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Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument
The AUMI Editorial Collective (2024)

Improvising Across Abilities: Pauline Oliveros and the Adaptive Use Musical Instrument (AUMI) brings together scholars, musicians, and family members, with and without disabilities, to collectively recount years of personal experiences, research, and perspectives on the societal and community impact of inclusive musical improvisation. One of the lesser-known projects of composer, improviser, and humanitarian, Pauline Oliveros (1932–2016), the AUMI was designed as a liberating and affordable alternative to the constraints of instruments created only for normative bodies, thus opening a doorway for people of all ages, genders, abilities, races, and socioeconomic backgrounds to access artistic practice with others. More than a book about AUMI, this book is an invitation to readers to use AUMI in their own communities. 

This book, which contains wisdom from many who have been affected by their work with the instrument and the people who use it, is a representation of how music and extemporized performance have touched the lives and minds of scholars and families alike. Not only has AUMI provided the opportunity to grow in listening to others who may speak differently (or not at all), but it has been used as an avenue for a diverse set of people to build friendships with others whom they may have never otherwise even glanced at in the street. By providing a space for every person who comes across AUMI to perform, listen, improvise, and collaborate, the continuing development of this instrument contributes to a world in which every person is heard, welcomed, and celebrated. - Publisher's Description

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Designing Better Digital Learning Environments: Approaches and Insights
Williams, Florence (2026)

Equitable access to digital learning is vital in a world where technology increasingly shapes education and opportunity. Ensuring that online environments are inclusive of diverse cultural backgrounds, socioeconomic realities, and physical abilities helps bridge systemic gaps and prevents the marginalization of vulnerable learners. By addressing both the challenges and possibilities of inclusive design, digital education can become a powerful tool for empowerment, engagement, and long-term success. Prioritizing accessibility and cultural responsiveness not only improves individual learning outcomes but also fosters a more just and innovative society. 

"Designing Better Digital Learning Environments: Approaches and Insights" provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in developing culturally facilitative digital learning spaces. It focuses on promoting equity and access for all learners, with a particular attention to accessibility guidelines. Covering topics such as accessible technologies, higher education, and student success, this book is an excellent resource for faculty, administrators, instructional designers, researchers, educators, policymakers, technologists, and more. - Publisher's Description

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The New Accessibility in Higher Education: Disrupting the System for an Inclusive Future
Aquino, Katherine; Lalor, Adam (2025)

The commitment to accessibility serves as a catalyst for developing and implementing practices that prevent barriers and can better allow for inclusive participation with the world around us. Unfortunately, the importance of accessibility does not always equate with commitment and compliance. While there has been a slow-moving effort to increase accessibility, the global pandemic and several key social justice movements have spotlighted inaccessible content and systems. 

"The New Accessibility in Higher Education" guides the reader through the various areas of higher education, detailing how barriers to access were identified and how accessibility was reimagined and improved through the perspectives of faculty, administrators, and students. The book considers the multidimensionality of accessibility and how postsecondary scholars and practitioners must reconsider how accessibility in postsecondary education is understood and achieved. It argues that higher education can no longer ignore issues of accessibility nor revert to previous, antiquated, and discriminatory policies that do not support the success of disabled students. The book not only spotlights what occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and other recent key events but, instead, but also provides a roadmap for the continued integration of more accessible strategies within modern higher education. - Publisher's Description

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Handbook of Accessible Communication
Maaß, Christiane; Rink, Isabel (2024)

Accessible communication comprises all measures employed to reduce communication barriers in various situations and fields of activity. Disabilities, illnesses, different educational opportunities and/or major life events can result in vastly different requirements in terms of how texts or messages must be prepared in order to meet the individual needs and access conditions of the recipients of accessible communication. 

This handbook examines and critically reflects accessible communication in its interdisciplinary breadth. Current findings, proposed solutions and research desiderata are juxtaposed with reports from practitioners and users, who provide insights into how they deal with accessible communication and highlight current and future requirements and problems.  - Publisher's Description

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Inclusive Design for a Digital World : Designing with Accessibility in Mind
Gilbert, Reginé (2019 & 2025)

What is inclusive design? It is simple. It means that your product has been created with the intention of being accessible to as many different users as possible. For a long time, the concept of accessibility has been limited in terms of only defining physical spaces. However, change is afoot: personal technology now plays a part in the everyday lives of most of us, and thus it is a responsibility for designers of apps, web pages, and more public-facing tech products to make them accessible to all. Our digital era brings progressive ideas and paradigm shifts – but they are only truly progressive if everybody can participate. 

In "Inclusive Design for a Digital World," multiple crucial aspects of technological accessibility are confronted, followed by step-by-step solutions from User Experience Design professor and author Regine Gilbert. Think about every potential user who could be using your product. Could they be visually impaired? Have limited motor skills? Be deaf or hard of hearing? This book addresses a plethora of web accessibility issues that people with disabilities face. Your app might be blocking out an entire sector of the population without you ever intending or realizing it. - Publisher's Description

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Press B to Belong: Using Esports to Promote Inclusive School Communities
Harrison, Matthew; Rowlings, Jess; Aivaliotis-Martinez, Daniel (2024)

Around the world, schools are establishing and expanding esports programs as a way to grapple with issues of school refusal and poor mental health. However, educators are often unsure of how to include players from marginalized backgrounds who often need this support the most. Positioning esports programs as spaces for social inclusion within our schools, "Press B to Belong" provides educators with practical strategies to remove barriers to participation, promote a sense of belonging for students with disabilities and neurological differences, and bring about a cultural shift in our educational settings. 

Presenting a series of case studies on successful esports programs operating in schools today, chapters examine a number of labels of difference and focus on creating supportive environments that allow people with intersecting identities to feel safe, welcome, and included in their local esports program. Recognizing that esports present unique opportunities for examining gamer identity, the authors offer tools for promoting of gender inclusivity and using esports as a space for supporting players with disability and cultural diversity. 

Aligning research with lived experience, "Press B to Belong" equips teachers, allied health professionals, and school support staff with the language and steps to use esports to address a range of needs, celebrate intersecting identities, and make school a place where all students want to be. - Publisher's Description

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Ability Machines : What Video Games Mean for Disability
Anderson, Sky LaRell (2024)

Video games are both physically and cognitively demanding―so what does that mean for those with a disability or mental illness? Though they may seem at odds, Ability Machines illuminates just how vital video games are to understanding our bodies and abilities. 

In "Ability Machines," Sky LaRell Anderson shows us how video games can help us imagine what our abilities mean and how they engage us physically, behaviorally, and cognitively to envision our agency beyond limitations. On the surface, this can mean games provide power fantasies; more profoundly, games can fundamentally reshape cultural and personal understandings of mental health, illness, disability, and accessibility. Video games are indeed ability machines that produce a reimagined state of agency. - Publisher's Description

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What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility
Horton, Sarah; Sloan, David (2024)

Accessibility is a core quality of digital products to be deliberately addressed throughout the development lifecycle. "What Every Engineer Should Know About Digital Accessibility" will prepare readers to integrate digital accessibility into their engineering practices. Readers will learn how to accurately frame accessibility as an engineering challenge so they are able to address the correct problems in the correct way. 

Illustrated with diverse perspectives from accessibility practitioners and advocates, this book describes how people with disabilities use technology, the nature of accessibility barriers in the digital world, and the role of engineers in breaking down those barriers. Accessibility competence for current, emerging, and future technologies is addressed through a combination of guiding principles, core attributes and requirements, and accessibility‑informed engineering practices. - Publisher's Description

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Promoting Inclusivity & Accessibility with FinTech
Masri, Masairol; Sait, Muhammad Azmi; Anshari, Muhammad (2025)

In recent years, financial technology (FinTech) has emerged as a transformative force reshaping the global economic landscape. By leveraging digital innovations, FinTech has expanded the scope of financial services, making them more accessible and inclusive than ever before. This shift is particularly significant as the world works toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, including reducing inequality, fostering economic growth, and promoting sustainable industry and innovation. FinTech s capacity to enhance inclusivity and accessibility aligns directly with these objectives, offering solutions that empower underserved populations, stimulate economic participation, and encourage environmental responsibility. 

"Promoting Inclusivity and Accessibility With FinTech" explores how FinTech has expanded the boundaries of financial services, making them more accessible and inclusive than ever before. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of the challenges and opportunities that lie at the intersection of FinTech and sustainable development, highlighting strategies to maximize positive outcomes for public and private organizations, as well as society in general. Covering topics such as developing economies, green finance, and traditional banking systems, this book is an excellent resource for policymakers, industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, non-governmental organizations, entrepreneurs, academicians, and more. - Publisher's Description

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Shareworthy: Advertising That Creates Powerful Connections Through Storytelling
Landa, Robin; Braun, Greg (2024)

In today’s highly competitive marketplace, a brand must tell meaningful stories that resonate with their target audiences across media channels. People want more than a utilitarian benefit―stories are ultimately what drive us to engage with brands. And we want to align ourselves with brands that are ethical and purpose-driven and that take responsibility for their actions and messaging. 

This indispensable book reveals what makes brand stories “shareworthy” and guides readers through creating relevant and resonant advertising. Combining practitioner and academic perspectives, Robin Landa and Greg Braun offer a roadmap for conceiving and developing creative advertising campaigns that are responsible and inclusive―and that audiences enthusiastically share. They demonstrate that shareworthy storytelling embraces diversity, equity, inclusion, purpose, and brand activism and eschews tropes, stereotypes, and negative messaging. The book features candid interviews with expert practitioners spanning diverse global communities who share the hard-earned wisdom of their award-winning campaigns, as well as insightful case studies from major companies such as Amazon, Nike, the New York Times, and Dove. Timely and actionable, "Shareworthy" shows current and aspiring marketing professionals how to craft a story, connect with the audience, and embrace social responsibility throughout. - Publisher's Description

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Advancing Accessibility Through Software Development for Disability and Neurodivergence
Álvarez Robles, Teresita de Jesús (2026)

Advancing accessibility in software development is not only a technical challenge, but also a commitment to equity, dignity, and inclusion. Examining thoughtful designs and a deep understanding of diverse user experiences can transform digital spaces into environments where everyone can participate fully. By bridging human-centered design with modern engineering practices, developers can create technology that truly serves all users, including those with disabilities and neurodivergent needs. 

"Advancing Accessibility Through Software Development for Disability and Neurodivergence" expands upon the different techniques of inclusive software development. This book showcases emerging technologies and development methodologies designed to address the specific needs of individuals with disabilities and those who are neurodivergent. Covering topics such as software development, disabilities, and neurodivergence, this book is an excellent resource for researchers, academicians, software developers, graduate students, and more. - Publisher's Description

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Building Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment
Ramroop, Marsha (2025)

"Building Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment" is just that--a manual to support and provide essential guidance to the profession on these key issues. Acknowledging that the existence of EDI procedures does not necessarily ensure their use, it focuses on demonstrating behaviors that help create, implement, and enforce policies, procedures, and practices to deliver inclusion. 

Written by Marsha Ramroop, former inaugural EDI director at the RIBA and award-winning EDI strategist, the book targets the pain points of talent attraction and retention, public sector procurement, community engagement, and inclusive design. It utilizes case studies from organizations across the sector and the world with successful EDI practices, as well as testimonials of lived experiences of discrimination which provide important insight to the listener. The book takes an intersectional approach, considering not just the separate identities of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender and sexual identity, disability, neurodiversity, and class but the overlap of these. - Publisher's Description

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Living Disability: Building Accessible Futures for Everybody
Macrae, Emily (2024)

From sidewalks to the climate crisis, "Living Disability" brings together the vibrant perspectives of thirty-five disabled writers. They explore disability justice, analyze urban systems, and propose more equitable approaches to city building. Essays and interviews push the conversation about accessibility beyond policy papers and compliance checklists to show how disabled people are already creating more inclusive spaces in cities of all sizes. Living Disability is universal in scope but intimate and local in focus, grounded in personal struggles and celebrations. 

Decisions about public transit, affordable housing, and park design all disproportionately impact disabled communities; by sharing stories and strategies, contributors consider the ways disabled thinkers and doers are embracing overlooked aspects of urban design and tackling the toughest problems facing cities. - Publisher's Description

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Neurodiversity and Work: Employment, Identity, and Support Networks for Neurominorities
Patton, Eric; Santuzzi, Alecia (2024)

This interdisciplinary work explores creating more inclusive workplaces around neurodiversity. It focuses on how organizations can promote true inclusion for neurominorities, a large segment of the emerging workforce while underlining the difficulties as well as the strength-based characteristics faced by this population. 

Beyond social, learning or communication challenges, neurominorities are often highly intelligent, honest, authentic, hyper-focused, innovative, skilled in various forms of perception, reliable, and resilient. Discovering ways for true inclusion can add value to organizations, helping all employees to learn and develop as colleagues while also helping neurominorities fulfill the goals of achieving dignity, respect, independence, and flourishing through work. 

This volume connects neurodiversity to disability in the workplace and examines the factors that contribute to the successful employment and integration of neurodiverse workers, including the transition from school to the labor market. It also highlights barriers and challenges faced by neurominorities. - Publisher's Description

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Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace
Auger-Domínguez, Daisy (2024)

In "Inclusion Revolution: The Essential Guide to Dismantling Racial Inequity in the Workplace," workplace strategist and C-suite executive Daisy Auger-Domínguez delivers a timely, inspirational, and practical exploration of why mainstream efforts at diversity improvement tend to fail and what you can do today to successfully create a diverse and representative leadership team at your company. 

In the book, the author explains her four-step process of reflection, visualization, action, and persistence, and walks you through how to use research-based strategies to promote diversity. 

Perfect for managers, directors, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders, "Inclusion Revolution" is also a must-read for people officers and human resources professionals at companies of any size and in any industry. - Publisher's Description

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The Museum Accessibility Spectrum: Re-imagining Access and Inclusion
Eardley, Alison; Jones, Vanessa (2025)

"The Museum Accessibility Spectrum" engages with discussions around access to museums and argues that what is impairing the progress of museums towards inclusion is the current ableist model of access. 

Drawing on contributors from international museum researchers, practitioners, artists, and activists, this volume challenges the notion of the core ‘able’ museum visitor and instead proposes all individuals are positioned on a multidimensional Accessibility Spectrum, which incorporates intersecting physical, sensory, neurodivergent, and social and cultural dimensions. It explores the ways in which access provisions designed to enhance the experience of a minority can enhance the museum experience for all visitors. A constructively critical approach is taken to practice-based chapters, using case studies and approaches from around the globe, split into three main sections. 

Within the Disability Gain section, the authors consider the benefits of inclusive design, perspectives, and practice for all visitors to the museum sector. The Social and Cultural Inclusion section examines ways in which museums have broadened representation and participation to better serve audiences who have been excluded, or 'underrepresented' by the museums. Finally, the Agents of Social Change section considers how, with this work, museums are challenging systemic biases and exclusions. The international, cross-disciplinary contributions in this volume are driven by research-informed practice and will transform existing thinking to change future practice within the museum sector by challenging this ableist bias. - Publisher's Description

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Beyond the Visual: Multisensory Modes of Beholding Art
Wilder, Ken; McPeake, Aaron (2025)

In what ways can visual art be enjoyed beyond sight? 

Bringing together leading international scholars and artists in the emerging field of “blindness arts”—including blind and partially blind artists, curators, advocates for inclusive practices and models of audio description, cognitive psychologists, and theorists of installation, performance, and sound art—"Beyond the Visual" seeks to broaden the discussion of multisensory ways of beholding contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on modes that transcend a dependency upon sight. 

Through diverse examples of multisensory engagement, it contributes to ongoing conversations around accessibility and blindness in art while also challenging and expanding our understanding of how art is experienced. - Publisher's Description

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Interface Frictions: How Digital Debility Reshapes Our Bodies
Alexander, Neta (2025)

In "Interface Frictions," Neta Alexander explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms reshape, condition, and break our bodies. She shows that while features such as refresh, playback speed, autoplay, and night mode are convenient, they can lead to “digital debility”—the slow and often invisible ways that technologies may harm human bodies. These features all assume an able-bodied user and at the same time push users to ignore their bodily limitations like the need for rest, nourishment, or movement. 

Building on the lived experiences of people with disabilities, Alexander explores alternative design solutions that arise from a multisensorial approach to communication. She demonstrates what can be gained from centering the nonaverage user, such as blind people who pioneered ways to control the playback speed of media, and Netflix subscribers with invisible disabilities like PTSD who successfully pushed the company to redesign its previews autoplay feature. Drawing on artworks, video games, and creative hacking by users with disabilities, Alexander challenges our understanding of media consumption, the attention economy, and the digital interface. - Publisher's Description

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Rethinking Mobility, Access, and Belonging in International Higher Education
Herridge, Andrew; James, Lisa (2026)

Transformations in international higher education rethink traditional ideas of accessibility and inclusion. As global challenges like economic inequality, geopolitical tensions, and digital disruption reshape how students learn, universities are pushed to look beyond physical mobility in internationalization. Equitable access to education and a sense of belonging for diverse student populations become central concerns, highlighting the need for more inclusive policies, flexible learning models, and culturally responsive campuses. By reimagining international higher education through these lenses, institutions may better support students and foster a more just and interconnected global academic community. 

"Rethinking Mobility, Access, and Belonging in International Higher Education" explores the structures, trends, and challenges shaping global higher education. It examines institutional responses to cross-border education, and provides a critical analysis of the political, social, and economic factors shaping international engagement in higher education. This book covers topics such as ethics and law, inclusive education, and policymaking, and is a useful resource for educators, academicians, researchers, and scientists. - Publisher's Description

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