2024 U.S. Digital Accessibility Legal Update with Lainey Feingold
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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 2024 draws to a close.
But this year, something is different. This year, the question on many people’s minds after the election is: what will happen to the laws and regulations that support accessibility in the U.S. under the new president and Republican-controlled Congress? What will happen to implementation efforts as more judges are appointed by the new administration, and the conservative Supreme Court rules on more cases?
This webinar will look to this future and discuss the status of the digital accessibility legal space today. The election doesn’t change the fact that digital accessibility is a civil right of people with disabilities or that the United States in 2024 has a strong and long-standing legal framework protecting that right which is not easily dismantled, even at the federal level. In addition, an increasing number of state and local governments have laws and policies supporting digital accessibility not impacted by who holds national office.
The US legal framework is more than laws. Laws are implemented, enforced, and strengthened with regulations to ensure they are more than just words on the page.
In 2024 we (finally) saw web and mobile accessibility regulations for state and local governments. Using existing law, often without regulations, agencies have offered guidance about accessibility – including AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools, health tech, higher ed, and more. Implementation also includes lawsuits and legal issues resolved through Structured Negotiation and other negotiation strategies. And for the past many years, federal agencies have investigated, made findings, and gone to court.
This webinar will look at recent implementation efforts, what is expected to continue in the next four years, and what is likely to change. We’ll take a practical look at what may be on the horizon while we deepen our understanding of the many ways the law now (and will continue to) protect disability rights in the digital space.
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.