http://lflegal.com Disability Rights Legal Advocacy Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:31:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 en http://lflegal.com/2012/01/csun-12/ http://lflegal.com/2012/01/csun-12/#comments Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:31:14 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Conference Presentations Accessibility Laws and Regulations Web Accessibility http://lflegal.com/2012/01/csun-12/ Lainey Feingold will be presenting two times at the 27th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference in San Diego in late February - early March, 2012. Commonly referred to as CSUN, the abbreviation for conference sponsor California State University Northridge, the conference is the largest conference of its kind on technology and people with disabilities. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2012/01/csun-12/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2012/01/brunei-talking-atm/ http://lflegal.com/2012/01/brunei-talking-atm/#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:52:43 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles International Issues Talking ATMs http://lflegal.com/2012/01/brunei-talking-atm/ Today's Talking ATM Google Alert brought news of the first Talking ATM in Brunei, a sovereign state located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. The country's official name is Brunei Darussalam, meaning Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace. The news came via a blog post, reprinted here, by Lim Sheng Ming. The blog post was based on an article, reprinted in full here, that was published in the Borneo Bulletin and reprinted on the Brunei Direct website. As the article mentions, Brunei is getting its Talking ATMs after Standard Chartered Bank successfully launched them in Korea, China, India and Indonesia. Visit the International Issues category of this website for other posts about ATM installations outside the United States. The ATM industry is global, and advocacy must be too. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2012/01/brunei-talking-atm/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2012/01/dot-filing/ http://lflegal.com/2012/01/dot-filing/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:21:21 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Accessibility Laws and Regulations Airlines http://lflegal.com/2012/01/dot-filing/ Alert: January 9, 2012 is the deadline to submit comments on the United States Department of Transportation's pending airline web accessibility and kiosk regulations. In my earlier post about the positive and negative parts of the proposed regulations, I explained how comments could be filed on the "user-friendly" website called the Regulation Room. I recently discovered, however, that comments to the Regulation Room, while shared with the DOT, are not treated the same way by the DOT as comments submitted through the "official" Regulation.gov channel. And, because the official channel is not fully accessible, the federal government has an "optional submission form" that is more accessible. Optional? I thought federal government accessibility was mandatory? ]]> http://lflegal.com/2012/01/dot-filing/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2011/11/barclay-atm/ http://lflegal.com/2011/11/barclay-atm/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:35 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles International Issues Talking ATMs http://lflegal.com/2011/11/barclay-atm/ Congratulations to the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in the United Kingdom for signing up Barclays Bank as part of RNIB's "Money Talks" program. Barclays has committed to install Talking ATMs at its branches by the end of 2012. Posted here is the article about Barclays that appeared on ZDNet UK on November 22, 2011. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2011/11/barclay-atm/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2011/11/dot-proposed-regs-2/ http://lflegal.com/2011/11/dot-proposed-regs-2/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:59:56 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Accessibility Laws and Regulations Web Accessibility Airlines http://lflegal.com/2011/11/dot-proposed-regs-2/ The United States Department of Transportation is currently seeking public comments to its proposed regulations about accessible airline websites and check-in kiosks. The Department is using a new "user friendly" on-line platform to encourage comments, which are due January 9, 2012. The DOT proposed regulations have many positive aspects. However, there are also significant parts of the proposal that need to be strengthened to ensure full equality for people with disabilities in air travel. (Certainly the regulations should not be "killed" as one commenter on the new platform has already suggested). This post contains information on key aspects of the DOT proposal and information about submitting comments. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2011/11/dot-proposed-regs-2/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2011/11/jakarta-atm/ http://lflegal.com/2011/11/jakarta-atm/#comments Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:54:01 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles International Issues Talking ATMs http://lflegal.com/2011/11/jakarta-atm/ Talking ATM technology continues to spread across the globe. Earlier this month, the Standard Chartered Bank in Indonesia announced installation of that country's first Talking ATMs. The full article that appeared in the Jakarta Times is posted here. Other posts on this website about Talking ATMs in countries outside the United States may be found in the International Issues category on LFLegal.com. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2011/11/jakarta-atm/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/fifteen/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/fifteen/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 18:25:57 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Site News Personal Glimpses http://lflegal.com/2011/09/fifteen/ October 1, 2011 marks the fifteenth anniversary of the Law Office of Lainey Feingold. I had practiced law for fifteen years when I decided to strike out on my own in 1996. That year my daughters turned 10 and 7. I was afraid that continuing on the path my legal career had taken would extract too steep a toll on the kind of parent I wanted to be. As with most new adventures, I was unsure about what having my own law firm would be like. I certainly could not have predicted that I would find a collaborative way to practice law that helped to solve disability access problems while developing lasting relationships with incredible people. [More on that below.] Or that I would be able to practice law without becoming mired in the procedural battles and adversarial posturing that is all too common in my chosen field. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2011/09/fifteen/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/dot-proposed-regs/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/dot-proposed-regs/#comments Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:23:52 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Accessibility Laws and Regulations Airlines http://lflegal.com/2011/09/dot-proposed-regs/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/dot-proposed-regs/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/talking-atm-mumbai/ http://lflegal.com/2011/09/talking-atm-mumbai/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:44:00 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Talking ATM Issues International Issues Talking ATMs http://lflegal.com/2011/09/talking-atm-mumbai/ For many years the Law Office of Lainey Feingold has been keeping track of Talking ATM installations in countries all over the world. On September 10, 2011, Google's "Talking ATM" alert brought news of installations in Mumbai India. United States ATM manufacturers NCR and Diebold are featured in the article. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2011/09/talking-atm-mumbai/feed/