Beyond Tech Fixes

Christo El Morr is a Professor of Health Informatics at York University and the Director of the Centre for Feminist Research. His research focuses on digital health, equity, and the intersections of technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence, and social justice. Dr. El Morr is also a theologian, poet, and advocate for social justice, with a broader intellectual contribution that defends the human person against alienation and exploitation. His work encompasses freedom from oppression and exploitation and the celebration of life.Yahya El-Lahib is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary. His scholarship, teaching and practice focus on disability justice, displacement and migration studies, intersectionality, and decolonial approaches to social justice. He brings an activist perspective to his work, centering the everyday lived experiences of marginalized groups and communities and advocating for systemic change in policy, education, and practice.Rachel Gorman is Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Disability Studies at York University. Their research spans disability justice, critical race feminism, and social policy, focusing on community-engaged scholarship. They work at the intersection of activism and academia, advancing inclusive, participatory approaches to knowledge production and social transformation.

• Part I: Foundations.- Introduction AI and Disability Justice: Towards a Transdisciplinary and Emancipatory Framework.- Chapter 1 Centering Disability Justice in Accessible and Inclusive AI.- Chapter 2 AI and the Disability Divide: Towards a Transdisciplinary Approach.- Part II Social : Examining the Crossroads of AI and Disability.- Chapter 3 Exploring the Potential Role of AI Tools in Facilitating Self-Determination at Early Stages of Dementia.- Chapter 4 An Opportunity to Use AI to Support Content Creators in Creating Born-Accessible Documents.- Chapter 5 Understanding the Digital Disability Creation Process and Bridging the Gap Between Responsible AI Design and Disability Frameworks.- Chapter 6 Assessing AI’s Role in Digital Accessibility.- Chapter 7 Can access to employment for persons with speech impairment be enhanced by accommodating generative AI?.- Chapter 8 AI challenges and opportunities for Students with Learning Disabilities.- Chapter 9 The do’s and don’ts of anti-racist/anti-ableist writing teaching using generative AI.- Part III Moving Forward: Charting A Path Towards Inclusive AI.- Chapter 10 The View from Elsewhere: Investigating Infrastructural Inequities at the Intersection of Disability and AI-enabled Interactive Technologies.- Chapter 11 Manifestations of Ableism, Disablism, and Disability Evasiveness in AI-generated Flash Fiction.- Chapter 12 Decoloniality and AI: Possibilities and Pitfalls.- Part IV From Awareness to Action: Building Disability –Just AI Future .- Chapter 13 The Role of AI in Disability Justice: Exploring David Wills' Prosthetic Theory.- Chapter 14 Disability data futures: Achievable imaginaries for AI and disability data justice.- Part V Conclusion.- Chapter 15 Disability Justice Framework for AI: Towards a Responsible AI.- Chapter 16 Beyond Bias Towards an Emancipatory Framework.