VIOLATION OF SOME PRINCIPLES OF THE INFORMATION LAW IN THE CONTEXT OF ENSURING AN UNIMPEDED ACCESS OF VISUALLY IMPAIRED PEOPLE TO THE INFORMATION

Abstract

The article analyzes the problem of ensuring an unimpeded access of visually impaired
people to the information resources. The relevance of the problem is supported by
the statistics on breaches of the unimpeded access of visually impaired people to the information
resources. Based on the above statistics, there are three most frequently violated
special principle of the information law. Further the article analyses GOST R 52872-
2012 "Internet resources. Accessibility requirements for the visually impaired" and the
order of the Ministry of communications and mass communications of the Russian Federation
of November 30, 2015 № 483 "On establishing the Procedure for providing 

conditions of accessibility for the visually impaired to official websites of the Federal
bodies of state power, bodies of state power of the subjects of the Russian Federation and
bodies of local self-government on the "Internet" for the presence of normative prerequisites
of violation of the special principles of the information law, outlined in the first part
of the article. In the final part the author makes specific proposals on elimination of the
revealed violations.