WordPress Accessibility Day 2024

Accessibility is a Civil Right: The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape for the WordPress Community

Beginner

October 9, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

Topics

A lot is happening in the legal space across the globe to advance disability inclusion in tech. Lainey Feingold’s keynote will offer an up-to-date overview of existing laws, regulations, and agency guidance and what we can expect in the coming year. She’ll also share how disabled people, both with and without lawyers, use the law to advance inclusion in the digital space.  Whatever your role, this talk will help you put the law in your pocket so you can talk about the digital accessibility legal space with a human rights perspective, and without fear and threats.

This talk will focus on the United States but will touch on key developments around the world.

Key learning objectives:

  1. Understand current legal requirements impacting digital accessibility in the US and across the globe.
  2. Know how to find and use resources to keep up with the digital accessibility legal space.
  3. Learn how to talk about the law with an emphasis on civil rights and people with disabilities.
  4. Discover best practices to stay ahead of the digital accessibility legal curve.
  5. Understand why digital accessibility and legal compliance are ethics issues.

Speaker

Lainey Feingold is a white woman with gray-white hair who is smiling in this image. Her hair color is not surprising as she inches towards 70 years old!
Disability rights lawyer, author, public speaker, Law Office of Lainey Feingold