2024 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
Thursday, December 12th at 2 PM ET
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.
- How actions of the incoming republican administration may impact existing, pending, or future laws, regulations, and implementation efforts in the digital accessibility legal space.
- Best practices to stay ahead of the digital accessibility legal curve and for talking about the law.
- Ethics in the digital accessibility legal space including centering disabled people and avoiding fear, quick fixes, and shortcuts.
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 Thursday, December 12th from 2 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 (she/her)
Lainey Feingold is a 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 more than twenty years ago. She has worked with dozens of companies on their accessibility initiatives since that time. Lainey is the author of Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits (2nd Edition 2021). Her 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 Attorney of the Year 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, follow her on Twitter or Mastodon, and connect on LinkedIn.