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Welcome to Lainey Feingold’s website. Lainey is a disability rights lawyer and author who has worked to make the digital world more accessible since 1995. She helped negotiate the first web accessibility agreement in the United States in 2000. Read a short summary of this page.

Lainey’s current work centers on helping individuals and organizations incorporate digital accessibility ethics into work, culture, systems, and practices across technologies and sectors. In doing this, she amplifies the stories and strategies in the 2026 book, Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.  Lainey is one of three editors and 39 authors of this global collection.  Visit the digital accessibility ethics book portal, part of this website, for resources, media, events, and other information about the book.

Lainey co-developed and practices Structured Negotiation, a dispute resolution and collaboration strategy that avoids lawsuits, and focuses on lasting change and relationship-building. The method has been used to advance accessibility for more than thirty years and is described in Lainey’s first book, published in 2016 and updated in 2021, called Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits. 

Lainey is also a consultant, an international speaker, and trainer on issues including digital accessibility ethics,  collaborative problem solving (Structured Negotiation), the digital accessibility legal space, accessible procurement, and best practices for baking digital accessibility into policies and practices of organizations large and small. Read what people say about Lainey Feingold’s talks and trainings.

In 2017 she was selected as an American Bar Association Legal Rebel – a group of “innovators who are remaking the legal profession.” She has twice been recognized with a California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) award (in 2000 and 2014).

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Why dolphins?

The dolphins swimming at the top of Lainey’s website are there for a reason. People often associate shark-like behavior as necessary for effective advocacy. Lainey’s experience says otherwise.

She uses the shark vs. dolphin metaphor in her first book, other writings, talks, and trainings to drive home a simple idea: You don’t have to be a shark to get things done. Dolphin skills include open communication, transparency, collaboration, active listening, and relationship-building.

These and similar qualities have contributed to successful Structured Negotiation outcomes without the conflict of litigation for more than three decades. They can be helpful in advocacy to incorporate digital accessibility ethics into accessibility work and ethics frameworks across sectors.  Read more about dolphins and negotiating qualities.

Lainey Feingold holding a microphone and speaking at an event
Structured Negotiation talk in Sydney Australia

Invite Lainey to Speak

Lainey Feingold is a popular speaker about digital accessibility ethics, the digital accessibility legal space, Structured Negotiation, and best practices for organizations that want to practice ethical disability inclusion in tech and avoid accessibility lawsuits. She offers keynotes, other presentations, workshops, and trainings at conferences, meetings, webinars, CLE courses and classes both public and internal and within and outside the United States.

Visit the Talks and Trainings page to learn what Lainey can offer your audience.

Read what people say about Lainey’s talks and trainings.

Visit the Events page of the digital accessibility ethics portal  for information about talks and trainings about Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech by Lainey and other editors and authors.

 

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In October 2024 Women in WordPress did a teaser in advance of WordPress Accessibility Day that year .That year Lainey was the keynote speaker. Podcast guest Adrienne Grace was asked to tell the audience about Lainey. Grace said:

Lainey Feingold. I think if you do get into the accessibility space, you’ll know she’s a legend.

Adrienne Grace, WordPress Accessibility Day Volunteers Team Lead

Read about Lainey's books

Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is the first book to offer a digital accessibility ethics framework to help individuals and organizations advance accessibility and avoid the risks and harms of disability exclusion in tech.  Lainey is one of three editors and thirty-nine authors of this global connection that was published in 2026.  Visit the Digital Accessibility Ethics book portal on this website for resources, media, events, information about the authors and the full table of contents. As one of our early reviewers said, the book is  “A must-read for anyone who is involved in the design, procurement, or use of digital technologies — ie, everyone.”

Lainey’s first book, Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits shares stories from 25 years of successful collaborations about accessible technology with some of the largest public and private organizations in the United States. The Second Edition, published in 2021 (English) and 2024 (Spanish) , includes new Structured Negotiation win-wins and Forewords by Haben Girma, disability justice and human rights lawyer and author and by Susana Sucunza, Basque Country Spain collaborative lawyer. Not just for lawyers, the book offers effective advocacy strategies to advance accessibility, resolve disputes without lawsuits, and to lessen the conflict and expense of filed cases.  Visit the Structured Negotiation page of this website to learn more.

 

Covers of both Lainey's books. Digital Accessibility Ethics is on the left and Structured Negotiation is on the right side.

Building a more inclusive and accessible world takes patience, partnership and persistence, and a copy of this book! Lainey is the expert on how to work collaboratively to create long term societal inclusion.

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Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Chief Accessibility Officer, Microsoft

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This is Lainey Feingold’s website. Lainey has worked in collaboration with others to make technology and digital and print information available to disabled people for over thirty years. Lainey is a disability rights lawyer and a public speaker. She is also an author with two books. She is one of three editors and 39 authors in a book called “Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech.” Her first book is called “Structured Negotiation, A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits.” Lainey uses Structured Negotiation to advance accessibility by building relationships and avoiding lawsuits.

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