The legal protection of disabled persons and the new technologies

Abstract

The irruption of the so-called Information Society, constitutes a phenomenon which has been compared to the Industrial Revolution, with regard to the intense metamorphosis observed in the labour plans as well as in the social behavior patterns. Among the numerous applications of the modern data processing technologies, it´s important to emphasize its usefulness as a vehicle to facilitate the social integration of disabled persons. This is the ideal situation and the topic orientation in national and international forums, but the effectiveness of such intentions demands the implementation of a sequence of public policies and private initiatives, intended to prevent these new technologies to become into another obstacle, which may increase the social differences that isolate disabled persons from the rest of the population; having, of course, to aggregate their digital disability to their natural disability.