http://lflegal.com Disability Rights Legal Advocacy Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:14:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 en http://lflegal.com/2010/03/csun-hotel-boycott/ http://lflegal.com/2010/03/csun-hotel-boycott/#comments Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:55:51 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Conference Presentations http://lflegal.com/2010/03/csun-hotel-boycott/ After much internal soul searching, I have reluctantly decided to cancel my presentation at the 25th Annual International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference, widely known as 'CSUN'. Why? I recently learned of the national gay rights and labor boycott of the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel, the site of this year's conference. This is CSUN's first year in San Diego, and I hope that next year this wonderful conference can find a home in a hotel that does not run afoul of basic human rights principles. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/03/csun-hotel-boycott/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-boston-globe/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-boston-globe/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:16:42 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Web Accessibility Articles http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-boston-globe/

Blind Sox Fan Gets MLB to Even Game

Like any true Red Sox fan, Brian Charlson attends as many games as possible and listens to the rest, play by play, on the radio. But when it came to reading stats, his blindness sometimes got in the way. Not any longer. At the urging of Charlson and fellow advocates, Major League Baseball rolled out a series of accessibility features this week on all league and team websites aimed at making statistics, ticketing, and other information fully accessible to the visually impaired. "It’s exciting that MLB has joined with us in this effort, hearing what the blindness community needs to take full advantage of this wonderful thing that is baseball. They are setting the stage for other sports to do likewise. Next season I’ll be asking the NFL, and I’ll say, ‘See what MLB can do? You don’t want to be outshined by the MLB.’" ]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-boston-globe/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-press/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-press/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:11:10 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Settlement Agreement Press Releases Web Accessibility Press Releases http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-press/

FANS WITH VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS GAIN ENHANCED ACCESS TO MLB.COM

New York (February 11, 2010)-- Baseball fans with visual impairments will benefit from the implementation of functional improvements to MLB.com, the official Web site of Major League Baseball, and all 30 individual Club sites as a result of a joint collaboration between Major League Baseball Advanced Media, LP (MLBAM), the American Council of the Blind, Bay State Council of the Blind and California Council of the Blind. All three organizations applaud this fan initiative taken by MLBAM.]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-press/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-agreement/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-agreement/#comments Thu, 11 Feb 2010 16:10:02 +0000 Lainey Feingold Settlement Agreements Web Accessibility Settlements http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-agreement/ http://lflegal.com/2010/02/mlb-agreement/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/harkins-argument/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/harkins-argument/#comments Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:51:12 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Audio Description Issues http://lflegal.com/2010/01/harkins-argument/ 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" ]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/01/harkins-argument/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/2010-conferences/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/2010-conferences/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:24:49 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Conference Presentations http://lflegal.com/2010/01/2010-conferences/ 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.]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/01/2010-conferences/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/california-keypad-law/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/california-keypad-law/#comments Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:58:05 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles http://lflegal.com/2010/01/california-law-now-requires-tactile-keypads-at-every-check-out-location/ 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. ]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/01/california-keypad-law/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/chronicle-web-story/ http://lflegal.com/2010/01/chronicle-web-story/#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:51:25 +0000 Lainey Feingold News and Articles Web Accessibility Articles http://lflegal.com/2010/01/chronicle-web-story/ 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 Martínez-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.]]> http://lflegal.com/2010/01/chronicle-web-story/feed/ http://lflegal.com/2009/12/harkins-amicus/ http://lflegal.com/2009/12/harkins-amicus/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:19:36 +0000 Lainey Feingold Amicus Briefs Audio Description Issues http://lflegal.com/2009/12/harkins-amicus/ http://lflegal.com/2009/12/harkins-amicus/feed/