This webinar will be presented by Lainey Feingold, an internationally recognized disability rights lawyer and public speaker and pioneer of Structured Negotiation. Lainey is known for negotiating landmark accessibility agreements, many described in her book, Structured Negotiation, A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits. In this webinar, Lainey will take us through key cases, court decisions, government agency activity, settlements, and other recent developments in the digital accessibility legal landscape.

1. Digital Accessibility
Legal Update
3Play Media | November 12, 2020
Lainey Feingold | LFLegal.com | @LFLegal
[No legal advice in this presentation]

2. Why Law?

3. Accessibility is a
civil right of
disabled people **
** Tom Olin | Capitol Crawl 1990

4. Civil right because….
Inclusion
Participation
Communication
vs
Exclusion

5. ADA @ 30
1990 1996 2000 2008 2012 2020

6. Regulations?
Yes!
No!

7. Beyond the ADA (US)
Section 504 | 508
Air Carriers Access Act
State laws
Anti-discrimination
State-funded
False claims
??

8. Beyond the US
 LFLegal post
[updates needed!]
 WAI post [updates
needed!]

9. Implementation

10. Recent Accessibility Wins

11. Citizenship

12. HBO Audio Description
Joining Netflix and others
Reached in Structured
Negotiation

13. Amazon
Employee
 Remote
Customer
Service job
 blind employee

14. Patreon web + app
WCAG
ATAG

15. Beyond the web
 Social Security
Administration
Kiosks
 Kiosk article on
LFLegal.com
(updated since
2018)

16. Latest credit union skirmish
California court of appeal
Case goes forward, no
ADA regulations needed

17. Cases to watch

18. Domino’s Pizza
Motions in January
Trial in July

19. Walmart self-check
Engaged in discovery

20. 66 million dollar website
Motions due June 7,
2021
 Trial date September 13,
2021

21. Cloud payroll system lawsuit

22. Gimlet podcast lawsuit
Jones v. Gimlet

23. Winn-Dixie appeal

24. Beware

25. Beware the “Online
Accessibility Act”

26. Beware the Overlay

27. Ethical Accessibility

28. The Numbers

29. What might the Biden/Harris win mean for digital
accessibility?
 President-Elect #a11y
statement
 A better DOJ
 Resolving ADA claims
 Protecting rights in court
 Project civic action
 Better Judges
 Possible regulations that
protect rights
 Section 508 enforcement
 ACA §1557 | DOE
 Other agencies

30. Stay in touch!
Lainey Feingold
@LFLegal
LFLegal.com/contact
LFLegal.com/speaking
LF@LFLegal.com