Violation of some principles of the information law in the context of ensuring an unimpeded access of visually impaired people to the information

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.