A Disability Civil Rights Law Firm
Lainey Feingold is a disability rights lawyer who works primarily with the blind and visually impaired community on
technology and information access issues. She is nationally
recognized for negotiating landmark accessibility agreements
and for pioneering the collaborative advocacy and dispute resolution method
known as Structured Negotiations. To learn more, please visit the
about page.
The most recent information about Lainey's work is posted in the
Recent News on this page. Earlier entries can be found by visiting the categories and archives pages, or by using the search feature.
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Recent News
On January 13, 2010, Court Room 2 of the federal court of appeals in San Francisco was packed with people with visual and hearing impairments. The public was there to listen to oral argument about whether a lawsuit can be filed against a movie theater that refuses to provide captioning or audio description for movie-goers with disabilities. The three appellate judges hearing the case demonstrated a keen interest in the issue and grilled the lawyer for the Harkins movie chain about why his company didn’t just “do the right thing”
Continue reading Court Hears Argument about Audio Description and Captioning
Filed under News and Articles, Audio Description Issues on Jan 14th, 2010
Lainey Feingold will be speaking about Structured Negotiations at two conferences this Spring. For the fifth time, Lainey will be speaking in March at the annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN) when it moves to San Diego. She will also present on Structured Negotiations at the National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) Annual Protection and Advocacy Conference this June.
Continue reading Structured Negotiations a Topic at 2010 Conferences
Filed under News and Articles, Conference Presentations on Jan 12th, 2010
Effective January 1, 2010, tactile keypads are required at every check-out location in California with a flat screen point of sale device. The keypads must be permanently attached.
Continue reading California Law Now Requires Tactile Keypads at every Check-out Location
Filed under News and Articles on Jan 1st, 2010
Web more accessible to those with disabilities
(article appearing on page 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle on January 1, 2010, by staff writer Alejandro MartÃnez-Cabrera)
San Francisco, CA (January 1, 2010)– During her high school years, Lisamaria Martinez, who has been visually impaired since she was 5, carried a 25-pound backpack to school crammed with books written in Braille.
But once she was introduced to the Web at UC Berkeley, she started getting professors’ class notes by e-mail, using text-to-speech software, and trading heavy Braille tomes for a few words and a click on a search engine.
Continue reading Web Accessibility Press Coverage on New Year’s Day
Filed under News and Articles, Web Accessibility Articles on Jan 1st, 2010
On January 13, 2010, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco will hear oral argument in an important case regarding the rights of movie-goers with visual and hearing impairments. The appeal challenges a 2008 District Court decision out of Arizona holding that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not require theaters to install descriptive video equipment. The Law Office of Lainey Feingold and co-counsel Linda Dardarian filed an Amicus Brief explaining that the court’s decision should be reversed.
Continue reading Advocacy Groups, DOJ, Screen Actors Guild Support Audio Description in Movie Theaters
Filed under Amicus Briefs, Audio Description Issues on Dec 23rd, 2009
The Law Office of Lainey Feingold is pleased to announce that The Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse is now posting settlement agreements reached using Structured Negotiations. The Clearinghouse web site is a collection of documents and information about civil rights cases from across the United States organized in selected case categories. Its goal is to allow “greater understanding” of the importance of civil rights litigation in this country.
Continue reading Civil Rights Clearinghouse Includes Structured Negotiations Settlements
Filed under News and Articles on Dec 12th, 2009
Simplified Summary:
This is the website of disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold. Lainey primarily
works with blind and visually impaired people to make information and technology
more accessible. She also works with people with other disabilities. Instead of
filing lawsuits, Lainey uses Structured Negotiations. Structured Negotiations involves
talking and working together to find solutions that will work for both sides. On
this home page there are short summaries of recent information posted on this website.
Each summary has a link to the full story. Each full story has a Simplified Summary.
Also, the About Page of this website will tell
you more about Lainey and her work. Back to News.