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2025 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold

Thursday, December 11th at 2 PM ET / 11 AM PT
 
As always, 3Play's annual digital accessibility legal update with Lainey Feingold will offer an up-to-date overview of what is happening in the digital accessibility legal space in the United States as 2025 draws to a close. 
 
This has been a hard year for the overlapping communities of accessibility practitioners and disabled people. This session will take a candid look at digital accessibility legal developments over the past year, and what we can expect as the new year unfolds. 
 
Digital accessibility remains a civil right of people with disabilities in the United States.  The long-standing legal framework protecting that right is not easily dismantled, even at the federal level. An increasing number of state and local governments have laws and policies supporting digital accessibility that are not impacted by who holds national office. And disability advocates, civil rights lawyers and others continue to enforce the law in the face of attacks on federal agencies that historically have helped with that enforcement.  
 
In this session we'll be honest about digital accessibility legal setbacks and will find hope in both positive developments and in community. 
 

Learning Objectives:

  • Current legal requirements impacting digital accessibility in the United States, with resources for understanding the global digital accessibility legal framework. 
  • Updates on major digital accessibility court cases, pending laws, and regulations, government actions, Structured Negotiations, and other settlements in the United States over the past two years and resources on how to keep up.
  • How actions of the republican administration are impacting the digital accessibility legal space.
  • Best practices to stay ahead of the digital accessibility legal curve and for talking about the law.
  • How ethics in the digital accessibility legal space can support legal compliance featuring ideas from the forthcoming Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech book.

Register for the Webinar:

Registration Info:

You will receive a confirmation email with details for logging into the webinar. This webinar will be hosted on Wednesday, December 11 from 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm ET. Convert your time zone. This webinar will be recorded and available for replay.

Accessibility Info:

3Play Media is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible virtual event for all participants. We will provide live captioning and ASL interpretation for this webinar. For questions about other accommodations or needs, please contact webinars@3playmedia.com.

About the Speaker:

Lainey Feingold

Lainey Feingold (she/her)

Lainey Feingold is a US-based disability rights lawyer who has worked in the digital accessibility space since 1995. She is also an author and international speaker. Lainey, along with her blind clients and co-counsel, helped negotiate the first web accessibility agreement in the United States twenty-five years ago. She has worked with dozens of companies on their accessibility initiatives since that time. 

Lainey is a co-editor of Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, the first book about the ethics of accessibility practice and why accessibility belongs in ethics across sectors.  It is set for publication on March 26, 2026.  The book is an edited collection of 32 chapters written by disabled and nondisabled accessibility and disability experts from 10 countries.  In addition to her editing role, Lainey wrote two of the chapters — one about the global legal landscape and one about the importance of digital accessibility in legal ethics and access to justice. 

Lainey is also the author of Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits (2nd Edition 2021). The book shares stories and strategies from twenty-five years of collaborations and relationship-building to help create an inclusive digital world.

Lainey has been named a Legal Rebel and Problem Solver of the Year by the American Bar Association and has twice received a California Lawyer Magazine Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award — all for her work in digital accessibility and Structured Negotiation. Lainey is a thought leader on both Structured Negotiation and digital accessibility and serves on the Board of Directors for Teach Access.

Learn more on Lainey's website (where you can sign up for her email list), follow her on BlueSky, and connect on LinkedIn.