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 space.

1. Digital Accessibility Legal
Update December 2021
3Play Media Webinar Series
Lainey Feingold | LFLegal.com | @LFLegal | LinkedIn

2. Disclaimers
It’s an update (Not every
case!)
No legal advice in this
presentation
Resources
LFLegal.com – legal
updates tab

3. Today…
 Why law ?
 What laws?
 How are laws implemented?
 What to Beware of
 How to avoid lawsuits
 How to talk about the law

4. Why Law?

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

6. Civil right because….
Inclusion
Participation
Communication
Employment
Privacy + independence
Security
vs
Exclusion

7. Accessibility is the difference between

8. Civil rights are baked into laws

9. Americans with Disablities Act
1990 1996 2000 2008 2012 2021

10. Beyond the ADA (US)
Section 504 | 508
Air Carriers Access Act
CVAA
False claims | 1557 ACA
State laws
Anti-discrimination
State-funded
State procurement

11. Beyond the US
Resources
 LFLegal
 WAI
 G3ICT
 Disability:IN

12. Possible legal remedies
Fix the problem
Pay money to person/s
harmed
Pay disabled person’s
attorneys’ fees
Report progress
Government fines
Government oversight

13. Laws must be implemented

14. 4 ways laws are implemented
Disabled people’s
advocacy without lawyers
Government agency
activity (primarily DOJ)
Individual lawsuits
Structured Negotiation

15. Recent legal actions in the
digital accessibility space

16. Civil rights | healthcare
(#HealthIT)

17. Making Covid websites accessible
New York public websites
Rite Aid settlement
Hy-Vee settlement
Resource
LFLegal.com/2021/10/doj-
digital

18. More Healthcare Tech
Talking prescription labels
University of North Carolina
health care system
Quest Kiosks
Resource
LFLegal.com/2018/01/kiosks18

19. Civil Rights | Higher ed

20. Higher Ed cases
University of Illinois
Chicago
Duke Uiversity
Resource
bit.ly/HigherEdLaw

21. Civil Rights | professional
exams and courses

22. Licensing exams and courses
California’s insurance
agent licensing exam
Continuing legal ed

23. Civil rights | employees
and applicants

24. Cloud payroll system lawsuit
Litigation AND Structured
Negotiation
Web + mobile
Settled October 2021

25. Accessibility for deaf employees
 EEOC vs Walmart
 Sign language interpreter for
job interview
 Ruffa v. The Society for
Human Resource
Management
 Professional educational
materials

26. Remote work + internal systems
 Private sector remote
customer service job
 Public sector (FBI
employee)

27. Civil rights | citizenship

28. Voting + government participation

29. Civil Rights | entertainment
and community

30. Audio Description
HBO, Netflix and others
ACB Audio Description
Awards

31. Captioning podcasts, tv, and more
Podcasts
Exercise equipment
TV captioning

32. Civil rights | retail + food

33. Winn-Dixie and Domino’s

34. Glasses and Juice

35. And more. . .

36. Patreon and Discord
WCAG
ATAG

37. 66 million dollar website
Next court hearing:
January 7
New party: the web dev
subcontractor on the
project, US eDirect

38. BEWARE!

39. Beware the Overlay
OverlayFactSheet.com
OverlayFalseClaims.com

40. Beware a focus on websites
only

41. Law is slow | technology is fast
The fast layers innovate
 The slow layers stabilize
(or detract?)

42. Beyond web, mobile, kiosks, software
AR
XR
VR
Resources
https://xraccess.org/
w3.org/TR/xaur/

43. Beware Silos

44. Beware the numbers

45. How many lawsuits and letters?
Resources
 UsableNet Report
 Seyfarth ADA Title III blog

46. Who Gets Sued?
Companies that use
overlays
Developer who delivers
inaccessible product
Expert with bad advice
Site / app owners
Anyone with low-hanging
fruit barriers

47. Beware fear

48. Avoiding lawsuits

49. The Accessibility Cookie
Hire disabled people
Transparency
Testing | Training
Ethics
Design
Development
Procurement
Collaboration

50. How should we talk
about the law?

51. Accessibility is
Civil rights
Privacy and security
Diversity, Inclusion,
Belonging
Independence
Good for business

52. And it’s the law!

53. Accessibility is Delicious

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