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This page has short summaries of every article posted on Lainey Feingold's website with links to the full articles. Visit the Topics Page for all 300 plus articles on this website organized into 38 topics including Structured Negotiation and digital accessibility.
The articles here are in chronological order, arranged by the date of publication or the date of the most recent Update when an article has been updated. Most recent articles and updated articles appear first on this list.
When an Article is updated there is a link to the Updates right below the the summary of the page.
This post originally shared four developments in the legal space about web accessibility overlays. Three are very troubling. One gives hope for stemming the tide of quick-fix “not-solutions” that can actually make websites less usable by people with disabilities. Updates add new content to the original four developments. New to the overlay issue? I first…
Read more… Legal Update: Accessibility Overlay Edition
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
On May 26, 2023 a jury in Los Angeles, California awarded two blind students a little over $240,000.00 in their lawsuit against the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD). This article and its updates explain the long and winding road this case has taken. The suit was filed in 2017 by students Roy Payan and…
Read more… $240,000.00 Jury Verdict in Blind Students’ Accessibility Lawsuit against Community College Judge's effort to throw out the verdict rejected on appeal
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
Introduction Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is an edited collection written by 39 authors from 10 countries with over 600 years of accessibility and disability experience. It introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework, a values-driven actionable strategy with two goals: (1) advance digital accessibility across sectors and (2) help avoid…
Read more… Digital Accessibility Ethics for Publishers and Librarians A Disability Inclusion in Tech Resource
As a public speaker and writer, I am always looking for good photos for presentations and articles I write on this website. What do I mean by “good”? I look for images that reflect what I’m trying to say, add to the story, amplify the message. And I look for images that don’t perpetuate or…
Read more… Stock Photo Sites for Inclusion
Introduction Digital accessibility is about more than meeting technical standards. It is about the choices we make and their impact on disabled people. Will they cause harm or protect privacy, safety, and human rights? Will they lead to inclusion or will they lock people out? The Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework is a values-driven actionable strategy to…
Read more… The Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework Values, Actions, and Questions for Disability Inclusion in Tech
Welcome to the Discussion Guide for Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. The editors and authors invite you to read the book with colleagues, work teams, friends, community members, Meetups, or as part of an organizational offering. This resource is intended to help guide your discussion. This resource has the following sections.…
Read more… Digital Accessibility Ethics Book Discussion Guide
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is an edited collection written by 39 authors from 10 countries with over 600 years of accessibility and disability experience. It introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework, a values-driven actionable strategy with two goals: (1) advance digital accessibility across sectors and (2) help disabled people and organizations avoid the risks and harms of disability exclusion in…
Read more… Digital Accessibility Ethics for the Legal Profession A Disability Inclusion in Tech Resource
Note about Updates This article is about many of the laws and regulations that lie at the intersection of healthcare and digital accessibility in the United States. It was first published in 2023 when there was a Democrat (Joe Biden) in the White House. It has been updated many times since then. Instead of writing…
Read more… Digital Accessibility, Healthcare, and US Law and Regulations The ADA, Section 504, and the Affordable Care Act impact Digital Accessibility in Healthcare
