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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.
Congratulations CVS and the National Federation of the Blind for reaching agreement to improve kiosk accessibility at Minute Clinics in CVS stores. The agreement was reached with the help of the Structured Negotiation process. Structured Negotiation is a collaborative process that helps people and organizations avoid the expense, time, and stress of litigation to focus…
Read more… Structured Negotiation Helps Parties Improve CVS Kiosk Accessibility Strategy used by CVS and National Federation of the Blind after a filed lawsuit
My 91 year old father Saul Feingold (pictured here) is a role model of aging. He looks forward and not backward. He has no regret for what he can no longer do and is thrilled with what he can. He’s lucky and he knows it. When I asked my dad how old he was when…
Read more… iPhone Live Captions Wow My 91 Year Old Dad
On June 5, 2018 the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced a major update to the internationally recognized Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG). WCAG 2.1 is the first update to the guidelines since 2008. The Law Office of Lainey Feingold is happy to have played a tiny part in the birth of WCAG 2.1 by updating this site to meet the Triple A (AAA) success criteria of the new standard. Lainey salutes her wonderful WordPress developer, Natalie MacLees of Purple Pen Production who did the work!
Read more… WCAG 2.1 (and now 2.2) Released; LFLegal.com Part of the Process
This is an article about a lawsuit filed by AudioEye, a multi-million dollar accessibility company, against Adrian Roselli, a long-time leader in the global digital accessibility community. Adrian has been a vocal critic, as have I, against one-line of code software that claims to make websites accessible. AudioEye sells (licenses) an overlay. The company has…
Read more… Case is Over! New Low in the Accessibility “Industry:” Overlay Company Sues Globally-Recognized Accessibility Expert
On October 11, 2023, the AVID program at Disability Rights Washington (DRW) issued a press release with the headline “DRW Reaches Agreement With Washington State Department of Corrections (DOC) To Improve Care For Transgender People With Disabilities.” The Parties used Structured Negotiation to achieve this important result for the rights of incarcerated transgender people, including those with…
Read more… Structured Negotiation Helps Disability Rights Washington Improve Care for Transgender Incarcerated People
Today is the first time I had to update an article before I posted it. The original article, which you’ll find below, is about a planned session at the Zero Project accessibility conference (#ZeroCon) in February. The session was organized by a member of the German chapter of the International Association of Accessibility Professionals (IAAP).…
Read more… Overlays and Ethics: a conference panel that hurt my heart
When I submitted my book manuscript to the American Bar Association in 2015, an East Coast lawyer reviewer had but one question. It basically boiled down to this: “How the hell do I find clients who want to resolve legal claims without fighting? With collaboration, calmness, and kindness instead of conflict?” I don’t have to “find” these clients because for the past 29 years these committed and ethical problem-solvers have found me. One of those people was my friend and client Paul Parravano, a kind, generous man, an accomplished professional, a beloved community and family member, and an unsung hero of Structured Negotiation who died last month from cancer at the age of 71.
Read more… Paul Parravano: Structured Negotiation Champion, Disability Advocate, Dies at 71
The disability community lost a tremendous advocate when Andrés Gallegos died on December 1st, a few days shy of his 63rd birthday. Along with hundreds (and based on the outpouring since he died maybe thousands) of people across the United States, I lost a close colleague and friend. I write this article to honor his…
Read more… Andrés Gallegos, Disability Rights Champion, Dies Too Soon
On Wednesday October 4 the United States Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case about who can file a lawsuit under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The case is called Acheson Hotels vs. Deborah Laufer. Ms. Laufer is a disabled woman. She uses a wheelchair and has a vision impairment and limited use of…
Read more… US Supreme Court Acheson Hotel Case May Impact Web Accessibility Lawsuits
[November 15, 2019 post update: The company that delivered the inaccessible 66 million dollar website (described in this post) to the State of California tried to get the case thrown out of court. The judge has now said no.]
Read more… Great outcome in California Whistleblower’s Inaccessible Website Fraud Lawsuit
