Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech

Announcing Digital Accessibility Ethics Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech Edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, Chancey Fleet

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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a groundbreaking collection of 32 chapters written by 39 disabled and nondisabled authors from 10 countries and one commonwealth. It is the first book on digital accessibility ethics and will be published on March 26, 2026, by CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group. (Links to pre-order and the publisher’s site below)
 
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech introduces the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework. It’s an action-oriented three-part tool designed to disrupt disability exclusion in tech with values, actions and questions.
 
The chapters apply the Framework through stories, strategies and best practices to a wide range of issues: from cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, from accessibility practitioner burnout to voting, marketing, hackathons, publishing and more.
 
Lainey is an editor of the book and also contributed two chapters. One of her chapters explores the global digital accessibility legal landscape, and the other chapter is about why digital accessibility must be part of both legal ethics and access to justice initiatives.
 
Lainey is grateful to leaders in Australia, Canada, Ethiopia, the European Union India, Japan, Kenya, and the United States who generously agreed to be interviewed and whose words appear in her chapters.
 
The Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework was conceived as a living document destined to change and grow as it ventures into the world and is put into practice. Lainey looks forward to engaging with readers as it does.
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Ethics Book Editors and Authors

This contributor/author list is like the Avengers of accessibility and tech super heroes.

Jeana Clark, accessibility specialist and UX designer, on learning about the book

 
What a collaboration of greatness! 
 

Crystal Scott, web consultant

39 authors contributed to Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, including the book’s three editors. We come from 10 countries and 1 commonwealth. We are disabled and non-disabled. Together, we have over 600 years of experience in digital accessibility and disability advocacy.

We are doctors and game developers, cybersecurity professionals and inventors, audio describers, marketing specialists, and professors. We are accessibility consultants, designers, developers, non-profit leaders, public policy experts, lawyers, publishing professionals and more.
 
One of us is a MacArthur Fellow, commonly known as a MacArthur Genius, and three of us were included in the inaugural Forbes Accessibility 100. One of us has been recognized as one of the Top 15 Women Transforming India. And One of us is a ParaTriathlete and ParaArcher in The Bahamas.
 
Read more about the authors and editors of Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech on the Ethics book authors page.

Table of Contents

The Digital Accessibility Ethics book begins with an Introduction titled The Digital Accessibility Gap and the Need for an Ethics Framework.  Three sections follow:

  • Section One (Foundation)
  • Section Two (Ethical Accessibility Practices)
  • Section Three (Digital Accessibility Belongs in Ethics Across Sectors)

Chapters in each Section explore and apply the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework through stories, strategies, best practices, and other guidance.

The book’s Conclusion asks What’s Next for Digital Accessibility Ethics?  It offers practical suggestions for implementing and growing the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework.

Find a list of all chapters in each Section on the Ethics Book Table of Content Page.

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Lainey is excited to speak with audiences about Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. She can also put organizers in touch with the book’s authors and editors for talks focused on the content of particular chapters.
 
Lainey is a dynamic speaker who has delivered talks and trainings in many countries about digital accessibility, disability law and policy, and the collaborative practice known as Structured Negotiation, the subject of her first book.
 
Visit the speaking page on this website to learn more about Lainey as a speaker and trainer.
 
Lainey gave her first talk about digital accessibility ethics that the Accessibility Toronto conference (#A11yTO) in 2019, six years before Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech was published.
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Summary

This page has information about a new book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.  Lainey Feingold is one of three editors of the book.  She also wrote two chapters. There are 32 chapters in the book written by authors from 10 different countries.  Some are disabled and some do not have a disability. You can find a link to information about all authors on this page.

The book talks about why digital accessibility must be part of everyone’s ethics.  Two disabled doctors, for example, wrote a chapter on their need for accessibility both as doctors and patients.  You can find a link to the table of contents listing all chapters on this page.

The book introduces the Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework.  It has values, actions, and questions.  And it can help organizations stop excluding disabled people when they design technology.   It can also help avoid risks and harms when disabled people are excluded.