Why Accessibility Overlays Don’t Work: Findings from U.S. State Government Websites Guest Article by Digital Accessibility Specialists Alison Walden and Matt Vitale

Jump to the following sections of this article Lainey’s Introduction At the 2026 M-Enabling Summit this year, I met the authors of this guest article when we were panelists for a 3-hour seminar titled “ADA Title II Digital Access: From Requirements to Real Implementation.” I was there to talk about how digital accessibility ethics and… Read more… Why Accessibility Overlays Don’t Work: Findings from U.S. State Government Websites Guest Article by Digital Accessibility Specialists Alison Walden and Matt Vitale

Why Digital Accessibility? Because it is an Ethical Imperative Text of 15 minute talk at M-Enabling Summit 2026

This resource is the text of a 15 minute talk by Lainey Feingold about Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. The main message? We’ve made so much progress in digital accessibility over the past 30 years. We now have laws across the globe advancing accessibility, more people working on it, and significant resources, and more. But it is not enough. Legal compliance is not enough. We need a new tool and the digital accessibility ethics book offers that tool – the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework. It is values driven, it is actionable, and the 39 authors of the book believe it can help close the unacceptable digital accessibility gap. Read more… Why Digital Accessibility? Because it is an Ethical Imperative Text of 15 minute talk at M-Enabling Summit 2026