Media and Other Interviews

Lainey Feingold on Canadian public television

Digital Accessibility Ethics, Structured Negotiation, and Lainey Feingold’s depth of knowledge about the digital accessibility legal space and best practices has attracted the attention of the legal, disability, mainstream, and digital accessibility/usability media. This page includes an image of Lainey during an appearance on Canadian public television on The Agenda with Steve Paikin.

Find links to this show, as well as other media and podcast interviews, in the list below. For links to recordings and transcripts of Lainey’s talks and webinars, Visit the Upcoming and Recorded Talks Page.

Interviews with Lainey Feingold

2026 and later

Visit the Media Page of the Digital Accessibility Ethics book for interviews, podcasts, and webinars with Lainey about Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.

Before 2026

May 2025 GAAD Special: Lainey Feingold on Advancing Disability Rights Without Litigation. United in Accessibility podcast.
February 2025 Episode 10: The Work Will Continue – Legal Special with Lainey Feingold and Eve Hill. Interview with Simon Mellins and Simon Holt on the Digital Publishing podcast (UK)
May 2023 In Conversation with Lainey Feingold, Legal Rebel (Part One) in the Evinced Blog. Part Two of the conversation is here. The American Bar Association declared Lainey a “Legal Rebel” in 2017, an honor they bestow annually on lawyers they consider “mavericks who are finding new ways to practice law, represent their clients, adjudicate cases and train the next generation of lawyers.” While I was happy to be recognized for using the law to advance digital accessibility with collaboration, I often say that digital inclusion and a desire not to fight really should not be “rebellious” in the United States legal system.
April 18, 2023 Accessibility-First Mindset: Lainey Feingold on how agencies can build a culture of accessibility, GovWebWorks blog. Thank you Gov WebWorks, a division of Portland WebWorks, for the illustration of me accompanying this section.
March 25, 2023, A Conversation with Lainey on A Podcast to be Named Later with Kelly Ford.
March 20, 2023 AXSChat Podcast, Interview with Lainey Feingold (includes transcript). Lainey thanks AXSChat organizers Neil Milliken, Debra Ruh, and Antonio Santos for inviting her back to AXSChat for this conversation.
February 24, 2022 Guest on Workology Podcast, Making Technology and Content Accessible for Persons with Disabilities with Lainey Feingold : Podcast conversation with Jessica Miller-Merril, powered by Peat.
January, 2022, Q & A with Lainey Feingold, Disability Rights Lawyer, part of Equal Entry’s Accessibility Activists Blog series.
December 16, 2021 Book Discussion on ‘Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits’ by Lainey Feingold: Captioned conversation with sign language interpreter with Shilpi Kapoor of Barrier Break and Rahul Bajaj of the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, Delhi, India.
November, 2021 AT Banter podcast interview
October 31, 2021 conversation with Shilpi Kapoor and George Abraham for Eyeway Conversations (India)
October 27, 2021 interview with Oladeji Tiamiyu of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program for Convergence EP9: Lainey Feingold – Technology, Accessibility & Emotional Intelligence
July 14, 2021 interview on Inclusion Hub, Lainey Feingold: Defending Civil Rights Through Collaboration
January 6, 2021 interview with PEAT (Partnership on Employment & Accessible Technology): Moving the Ball Forward on Digital Accessibility: A Conversation with Attorney Lainey Feingold
March 12, 2020 interview on 13 Letters Podcast
March 13, 2019 Online Accessibility & Law-Firm Websites, with Lainey Feingold, Lawyerist Podcast
December, 2018 interview on MyShingle about Digital Accessibility Law and Structured Negotiation. Part of a series titled “41 Legal Practice Areas that Didn’t Exist 15 Years Ago.”
August, 2018 interview (audio and transcript) with Day Al-Mohamed on Day in Washington: The Disability Policy Podcast
February, 2018 2-part interview (audio and transcript) with Nic Steenhout on the A11y Rules Podcast
July 27, 2017 interview (captioned video) on Web ABLE.tv for 27th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
March 24, 2017 interview (captioned video) with Christopher Schmitt on the Non Breaking Space podcast.
March 13, 2017 interview (captioned video) on Accessible Media Inc. in Toronto.
February 13, 2017 Interview about Structured Negotiation on the Canadian public television show, The Agenda with Steve Paikin.
January 17, 2017 interview on Disability Matters with Joyce Bender.
January 16, 2017 interview with Alice Wong of the Disability Visibility Project, “Technology, Access & Structured Negotiation“
January 4, 2017 interview on San Francisco NPR station KALW’s Cross Currents with host Hana Baba: “Local disability rights lawyer offers alternative to lawsuits” Transcript included.
Interview with AccessWorld® in December 2016 A Conversation with Lainey Feingold about her new book, Structured Negotiation: a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits
December 6, 2016 interview with Berkeleyside Berkeley lawyer on the secret to avoiding lawsuits
December 6, 2016 interview with Alison Monahan in the Law School Toolbox podcast (with transcript) Learn about Structured Negotiation and Disability Rights
November 30, 2016 interview with Debra Ruh in the Human Potential at Work Podcast (with transcript) The Power of Structured Negotiation
Interview in November 2016 with Hastings College of the Law Lainey Feingold ’81 discusses her new book on Structured Negotiation and her tactics in dispute resolution
Interview with T.R. Reid, Reid My Mind Structured Negotiation, Not Just for Lawyers
In May 2016 Structured Negotiation was the subject of an article in The Indiana Lawyer titled “An Alternative Alternative Dispute Resolution Process.” Indiana Lawyer Melissa Keyes, author of the piece, writes that “Structured negotiation, as clichéd as it sounds, may be the first truly win-win solution and should be considered a promising alternative ADR strategy.”
In October 2015 Lainey was the guest on AXSChat, an international social media community focused on inclusion of disabled people in all aspects of society. Watch the captioned video of the AXSChat interview with Lainey
In August 2015 Lainey was interviewed by the Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology (PEAT), a federally-funded initiative to increase employment of disabled people through accessible technology. Read the PEAT interview with Lainey Feingold
In September 2015 Lainey was interviewed about her work in J Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Area’s Jewish newspaper. Read J Weekly’s interview with Lainey Feingold
In February 2015 Lainey was interviewed by British accessibility expert Jonathan Hassell for inclusion in his text and video-based book Including your missing 20% by embedding web and mobile accessibility. Watch the captioned interview with Lainey Feingold about Structured Negotiation.
In April 2014 Lainey was featured as part of the podcast series conducted by Sarah Horton and Whitney Quesenbery, the authors of A Web for Everyone. You can read a transcript or listen to the April 2014 Web for Everyone podcast and transcript about Structured Negotiation.
Structured Negotiation was the topic on the February 2014 Eyes on Success program. You can listen to or review a transcript of a February, 2014 Eyes on Success podcast about Structured Negotiation
In August 2013 the New York Times published Lainey’s letter to the editor about the digital divide and people with disabilities. Read the post about the disability digital divide and the New York Times letter.
In December, 2013, the American Bar Association profiled Lainey Feingold and Linda Dardarian’s Structured Negotiation achievements. Read the ABA Journal article about Structured Negotiation.
Also in December 2013 the Access World Magazine, published by the American Foundation for the Blind, included a profile titled ‘Lainey Feingold: The Power of Structured Negotiation’ by journalist Deborah Kendrick.
Lainey’s work was also featured in two articles about Structured Negotiation appearing in the legal press in 2007. Read the Law.com article about Structured Negotiation. Read the Daily Journal article about Structured Negotiation.

Digital Accessibility and Disability Rights News Stories Quoting Lainey Feingold

Lawsuits Over Digital Accessibility for People With Disabilities Are Rising, article by Ann-Marie Alcantára in the Wall Street Journal, July 15, 2021
Employers Advised to Make Careers Websites Accessible, Despite Recent ADA Ruling, article by Allen Smith on the Society for Human Resources Management website, May 12, 2021
Blind people, advocates slam company claiming to make websites ADA compliant, article by April Glaser on NBC News site, May 9, 2021
Visual Barrier-Free Online (United States), article (in Japanese) by Momoe Ban Braveman appearing in Nikkei (Nihonkeizaishinbun) (Japan) January 15, 2020
COVER STORY: Companies Still Fail On Online Accessibility, Even As New Challenges Emerge, WHICH-50 (Australia) November 11, 2019
The Internet is for Everyone, Right? Not with a Screenreader, Wired article by Arielle Pardes October 24, 2019
Accessibility, the future, and why Domino’s matters, arsTECHNICA October 20, 2019
Domino’s Could Fuck Up the Internet for People With Disabilities Because They Won’t Just Fix Their Website, Gizmodo August 6, 2019
ADA questions remain over web accessibility cases and the lack of DOJ regulations, ABA Journal, July 1, 2019
How to Make a Website Accessible, ABA Journal, July 1, 2019
Bad braille plagues buildings across U.S., CBS News Radio investigation finds, CBS News Radio, June 28, 2019
Disabled residents in the D.C. region face obstacles when searching for housing, report says, Washington Post, March 20, 2019
Galleries from A-Z Sued Over Websites the Blind Can’t Use, New York Times, February 18, 2019
A New Era for Disability Rights, Inside Higher Education, November 2016
Web More Accessible to Those with Disabilities, San Franicsco Chronicle, January 1, 2010