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Lainey Feingold

@lflegal.bsky.social
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(She/her) Digital #accessibility since 1995. Author: Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits 2d ed 2021 English 2024 Spanish Disability rights lawyer Image: me 50 years ago. Banner: me speaking at Paris Web 2024 LFLegal.com #a11y

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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
New interview about the #AccessibilityEthics book. I’m hoping this article can help break down the silos between Business compliance and Ethics and #DigitalAccessibility #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #a11y #Disability complianceandethics.org/should-digit...
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Should digital accessibility be considered an ethical imperative? - The Compliance and Ethics Blog
Q&A with digital accessibility advocate Lainey Feingold Most people can agree that accessible technology is a good thing — even an essential thing. Beyond the legal requirements for digital accessibil...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I loved doing this podcast about the #DigitalAccessibilityEthics book! If you know about #podcasts with audiences that would be interested in making tech work for #disabled people, let me know. We have 39 authors who would make great guests! jeffschechtman.substack.com/p/design-as-... #BookSky
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Design as an Act of Inclusion
Listen now | The digital world is being rebuilt around AI, and for the first time in a generation the concrete of that world is still wet.
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Tonight (Tuesday 7.21) on Zoom: I will be joining the Durham Raleigh Accessibility Meetup to talk about the new Digital #Accessibility Ethics book. 6:30 PM Eastern Stories + strategies to advance #disability Inclusion in tech. RSVP here for Zoom link: www.evite.com/event/010BII...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
This coming Tuesday July 21 - Join the Durham-Raleigh #Accessibility MeetUp online or in person in Millersville North Carolina to talk about the new book, Digital Accessibility Ethics: #Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. Registration and info: www.meetup.com/durham-ralei... #BookSky #a11y
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Lainey Feingold and DRA11y Turns One - July Event, Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 6:00 PM | Meetup
Durham Raleigh A11y: The Accessibility Meetup - Triangle Style invites you to celebrate its first birthday via a virtual discussion with **Lainey Feingold** about the recen
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
In #SF #BayArea? Join @habengirma.bsky.social @berkeleyblink.bsky.social + me for 1st Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech book event. July 23 6:00 pm @ Local Economy 6028 College Ave Oakland luma.com/qn23ra0k #BookSky #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #accessibility #a11y
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Disability Inclusion in Tech: Strategies for a new Digital Accessibility Ethics · Luma
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is a new book that addresses critical issues of inclusion, exclusion and belonging …
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Listen to @aardrian.bsky.social #DigitalAccessibilityEthics
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Adrian Roselli, pH0 @aardrian.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
I will not be at #AccessU2026. However @lflegal.bsky.social is running a 3 hour workshop on the #DigitalAccessibilityEthics framework: knowbility.org/programs/joh... She’ll also have these stickers on hand and at the book signing on 12 May at 6pm in Mabee Auditorium at St. Edward’s Uni in Austin.
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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in all Things Tech — Knowbility
Join an interactive workshop to explore the recently introduced Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework. Discover the values, actions and questions designed to advance disability inclusion in tech and ...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Thanks @xirclebox.com for sharing a picture of your copy of Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in all things Tech. I’m jealous. Mine hasn’t arrived yet. Today was publication day! More info at AccessibilityEthics.org
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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech
This book is a groundbreaking collection of 32 chapters written by 39 disabled and nondisabled authors from 10 countries and one commonwealth.
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Today we’re thanking the early endorsers of #DigitalAccessibilityEthics: Disability Inclusion in all Things Tech. Here is a sample: “An extensive, expansive and important book." Full list of quotes + endorsers: www.lflegal.com/book/praise-... Pub date this Wednesday - one day left to pre-order
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Praise for Digital Accessibility Ethics
On this page, you can read what people say about Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, a groundbreaking collection of 32 chapters written by 39 disabled and nondisable...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Finally! Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech will be published in one week on May 6. Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered (it helps!) Links to pre-order, bios of our 39 authors (from 10 countries!) and full table of contents at accessibilityethics.org
Image of Digital Accessibility Ethics book cover announcing May 6 publication with and the url AccessibilityEthics.org.  Full title is Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. Cover has multi-colored image and lists editors Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Important! Threat to the #ADA Title II web and mobile #accessibility rule Read. Take action. #Resist convergeaccessibility.com/2026/03/17/r.... #disability
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Red Alert: DOJ Web Rule in Danger
Last June, I wrote about the growing threats to the DOJ’s ADA Title II Web Accessibility Rule. That warning feels understated now. If you care about the accessibility of state and local government web...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Join us at the #CSUNATC conference next week! Tues: Digital #Accessibility Ethics Book MeetUp, Platinum Ballroom 3 at 5-6:00 pm Wed: Session about book with 5 authors 11:20 am -chk schedule Visit AccessibilityEthics [dot] org and please help us spread the word about these two gatherings.
Book cover with a painting featuring arcs of yellow, orange, blue, turquoise, pink, and purple. The lower half of these swaths of bright colors are populated by diverse figures, circles, and building-like shapes. Book title is Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. Cover lists editors Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, Chancey Fleet,  and publisher CRC Press / Taylor & Francis. Link to learn more about the book at AccessibilityEthics.org
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please send! This is one of the most popular articles on my website. I always welcome new food analogies for #accessibility from anywhere in the world. Thanks for sharing @a11yawareness.bsky.social #disability #AccessibilityIsDelicious
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Deque Systems @deque.com · 24/02/2026
You can always count on Lainey to ignite that #a11y fire within: “Whatever brings you to this Axe-con community, you are working on making sure disabled people are included. You are a civil rights enforcer.” @lflegal.bsky.social #axecon www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...
A civil right and human right. Participation, Inclusion, Communication, Education, Health and Safety. You are a civil rights enforcer! Lainey Feingold.
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Thanks for sharing @aardrian.bsky.social
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
#Earthquake #Berkeley (Twitter used to be a great place for earthquake communication)
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Thank you, Bruce Springsteen “ Streets of Minneapolis”. brucespringsteen.net/news/2026/st.... Lyrics in first comment. #resistance
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Streets Of Minneapolis | Bruce Springsteen
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis,...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Not a joke: trump Secretary of State stages a “font coup”. Says sans serif fonts (which are more accessible to disable people) are a wasteful diversity move. Orders a return to harder to read fonts. Reuter's article here: www.reuters.com/world/us/rub... #accessibility #disability
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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri ...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#earthquake #Berkeley
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Thursday December 11: FREE US Digital Accessibility Legal Update sponsored by 3Play Media. The good, the bad, the hopeful... and a bit about law-related aspects of the forthcoming #DigitalAccessibilityEthics book. Register here: go.3playmedia.com/wbnr-12-11-2... #accessibility #disability #ADA
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2025 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
Join us for our 2025 Digital Accessibility Legal Update presented by Lainey Feingold!
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Mia Ives-Rublee @seemiaroll.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My statement from @americanprogress.bsky.social on disability justice activist, author, MacArthur fellow, and cyborg oracle Alice Wong.
"Alice Wong, a proud Asian American and disabled woman, transformed the disability justice movement by insisting that disabled stories, disabled joy, and disabled futures mattered. Through her fearless advocacy and storytelling, she made sure millions of disabled people could not be ignored. Alice was known as the cyborg oracle in the disability community, challenging systems that devalued disabled lives while expanding the movement by emphasizing dignity and collective care. As a disabled ancestor, her legacy will forever shape the community.”
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Tiny #Berkeley #earthquake just now?
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Josh Miele @berkeleyblink.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I'm thrilled to have a chapter included in the forthcoming book, "Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech," edited by the dream team of Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet! #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #Ethics
Book cover with the title and subtitle in blue letters at the top reading Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. Below the title, taking up about 2/3 of the cover is a painting.  The painting features arcs of yellow, orange, blue, turquoise, pink, and purple. The lower half of these swaths of bright colors are populated by abstract figures, circles, and building-like shapes. According to the artist, the work uses sheet music as a foundation, creating an abstract typographical interpretation of musical notation through bold design and color. Resting on the top left corner of the images are the words Edited by Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, Chancey Fleet. On the bottom right corner are the words CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group.
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Josh Miele @berkeleyblink.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Here’s the Amazon page for pre-order www.amazon.com/Digital-Acce... #DigitalAccessibilityEthics
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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech
Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech - Kindle edition by Feingold, Lainey, Gilbert, Reginé, Fleet, Chancey. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.
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Léonie Watson @tink.uk · 12/11/2025
I'm happy to share that I've written a chapter for a book called Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech, to be published on 26 March 2026: www.routledge.com/Digital-Acce... #DigitalAccessibilityEthics
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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech
Digital Accessibility Ethics is a practical guide with an urgent goal: to help end tech exclusion of 1.3 billion people across the world with disabilities. The book introduces the first Digital Access...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So glad you’re part of this @scopicengineer.com You wrote a great chapter #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #a11y #accessibility
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Kaz Tsuchiya @caztcha.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics” — Adrian Roselli adrianroselli.com/2025/11/pre-... デジタルアクセシビリティの倫理に関する、新しい書籍が出ますね。
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Pre-order “Digital Accessibility Ethics”
Lainey Feingold, Reginé Gilbert, and Chancey Fleet gathered 36 authors across 10 countries and a commonwealth to write 32 chapters about ethics in digital accessibility. I am one of those 36 authors.…
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Thank you for sharing @caztcha.bsky.social In the two law chapters I wrote I interviewed people from a couple different countries, including Japan. One was of course @makotoueki.bsky.social The other was a deaf lawyer that Makoto introduced me to named Haruna Kubo. #DigitalAccessibilityEthics
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
And those 36 authors and 3 editors (who also wrote chapters) have a combined total of 600+ years in the #accessibility and #Disability advocacy space. Thank you @aardrian.bsky.social for being an author and for so much support beyond that. #DigitalAccessibilityEthics
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Thanks for writing such a great chapter @arianaaboulafia.bsky.social — I learned a lot from you and I know our readers will too. #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #AI #disability #a11y #BookSky
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
So glad you’re part of this project @tink.uk Thank you for writing such a great chapter with so much practical guidance on accessible ethical development #DigitalAccessibilityEthics #accessibility #a11y #BookSky
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I doubt I will ever see a woman president in the United States during my lifetime. But today I’m celebrating the transition team just appointed by #Mamdani, the next mayor of #NYC— it’s all women. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Zohran Mamdani announces all-female transition team as he prepares for New York mayoralty
Team includes Lina Khan, the FTC commissioner under Biden, and other Democratic former city officials
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Friends outside the U.S. - hope returned to America on Election Day today. trump took a beating. Democrats won everything. The disaster that is our current national politics is far from over, but today showed something very different #Mamdani’s speech should not be missed. #resistance
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
New digital #a11y food analogy in latest update to "Accessibility is Delicious" (1st written in 2020, updated ever since) This one about swiss cheese, thanks to @possumrabbi.bsky.social. Read it here. I welcome accessibility food analogies from all over the world! www.lflegal.com/2020/05/acce...
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Accessibility is Delicious: Food analogies for digital inclusion
I'm always looking for ways to talk about digital inclusion without reference to legal hammers. This post gathers some yummy analogies for accessibility that can be used to raise awareness and help de...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Curious about a #DisputeResolution strategy born at the intersection of #disability and #accessibility? @workaccord.bsky.social wrote reviews of every chapter in my book focused on using Structured Negotiation with #veterans in #Australia www.lflegal.com/2025/11/stru... #BookSky #ConflictResolution
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Beyond Digital Accessibility: An Australian Reader Takes Deep Dive into Structured Negotiation Book
Four years after I published the second edition of my book -- Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits-- something unexpected happened that brought me great joy. An Australian peacema...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Fashion Nova settled a web accessibility lawsuit in the US for 5.1 million dollars. I wrote about the settlement here and also explained why I am ambivalent about reporting on this kind of case. www.lflegal.com/2025/10/fash... #a11y #disability #ADA #blind
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5.15 Million Dollar Settlement in California Web Accessibility Class Action
Digital accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. In the United States and other countries, civil rights are baked into laws that require accessibility. These laws have different remedies ava...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
No #ICE and no troops to #SF is good. AND there’s a lot more to the Bay Area than San Francisco. Including #Oakland
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social
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Comments Needed to Stop republican Attack on Section 503
Comments are due on September 2d to stop a republican attack on a longstanding rule in the United States called Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 503 helps disabled people get hired by fe...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Glad to be joining #Accessibility Scotland for a gathering we're calling Stories, Ethics, and the Accessibility Cookie. Join us on September 9 in #Edinburgh www.tickettailor.com/events/acces... Who do I know in #Scotland? #disability #a11y
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Select tickets – Stories, Ethics, and the Accessibility Cookie: 30 years of Digital Accessibility Advocacy without Lawsuits – The Royal Scots Club
Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer in the United States who was included in the inaugural Forbes Accessibility 100 L...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Structured #negotiation has been used to advance digital #accessibility and #Disability Rights for 30 years. @workaccord.bsky.social in Australia is reviewing the book chapter by chapter. Chapter 9 below. book link here. Thx Andrew Wood! #ADR #a11y www.lflegal.com/book/structu... #bookSky
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Structured Negotiation 2nd Edition
Available Now in English and Spanish! the 2nd edition of Structured Negotiation A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits by Lainey Feingold Forewords by Haben Girma (U.S.) and Susana Sucunza (Spain) Re...
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...
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Gaza is starving. Where are the American Jewish leaders?
A fear of being labelled antisemitic still deters American Jews and Jewish institutions from taking a position that is morally correct.
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I think it is #resistance when a long time US Accessible media leader turns down the FCC’s chairman‘s award for #Accessibility advancement because of that chairman‘s attacks on public media in the US. Guest post from Larry Goldberg here. www.lflegal.com/2025/07/larr... #disability #access #NPR #PBS
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Attacks on Public Broadcasting Lead US Accessibility Champion to Reject Prestigious Award
Lainey's Introduction As the republican attacks on rights, benefits and democracy continue in the United States, resistance takes many forms. One problem in the country right now is that main stream ...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Advocacy works! US agency delays trump proposed rollback of access rules for new buildings. Why? 20,000 comments were filed opposing the rule! Update here. #disability #advocacy www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener...
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July 11 Update! New Attempt to Roll Back Accessibility Requirements - Comments Needed
For over forty years the United States has had regulations that say new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities if the building is built by an organization that receives federal funds...
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Andy C. Wood @woodac.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
In our reading of Lainey Feingold's (2021) Structured Negotiation 2nd ed, we are discovering that “the Right Thing to Do” may be established in relational rather than in legal space. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation #ADRDesign
A pull quote on a square, mottled, grey background: "- the right thing to do is not always self-evident. It can be buried beneath tecvhnical exclusions, discretionary silences, historical blind spots, or out-of-scope policy framings. Often, no one in the system feels authorised to name it, let alone act on it." Andrew C Wood. Reading Lainey Feingold's (2021) "Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits" - 2nd Edition (Cont'd.)
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
It's the eve of the European #Accessibility Act! Here's my article -- Dreams and Gratitutde for the #EAA #disability #EU www.lflegal.com/2025/06/euro...
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The European Accessibility Act: Dreams and Gratitude
Tomorrow, June 28, 2025 is the implementation date for the European Accessibility Act and the laws of 27 EU member states making it a reality. These laws are poised to fundamentally advance digital ac...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Important read by the wonderful @nhannahjones.bsky.social on how trump has initiated “the broadest and most significant assault on civil rights and racial integration in this country in more than a century.” Gift article. #Resist www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
This is fun! The Spanish edition of my book will be officially announced tomorrow at a gathering in Basque Country Spain. I'll be on zoom. Reps of the Basque government will be there. Structured Negotiation is mentioned in their Universal Accessibility Strategy #a11y www.lflegal.com/2025/06/span...
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Structured Negotiation Book Makes its Spanish Debut
My book, Structured Negotiation, a Winning Alternative to Lawsuits (2d ed 2021) is now available in Spanish thanks to translation done by The Collaborative Law Association of the Basque Country (Asoci...
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
@berkeleyscanner.com Big turnout in Albany (not the NY one) #NoKings #Resist
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Lainey Feingold @lflegal.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings rally in Albany California. Lots of people of all ages in this little town next to Berkeley California. #Resist. Cc @meidastouch.com
Crowd of protesters. Closest sign reads “hell hath no fury like a country scorned”
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Victor Shi @victorshi.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.
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