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Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is an edited collection written by 39 authors from 10 countries with over 600 years of accessibility and disability experience. It introduces the first Digital Accessibility Ethics Framework, a values-driven actionable strategy with two goals: (1) advance digital accessibility across sectors and (2) help organizations avoid the…
There is never enough time when I deliver a Digital Accessibility Legal Update talk. Recently I’ve offered organizers a list of links to give participants more information about what I can only cover briefly in a 45-50 minute talk. At the free 2026 Axe-con conference on February 24, links were dropped into the chat and…
The deadline for state and local government entities with a population of 50,000 or more to meet web and mobile accessibility requirements is April 24 of this year. A recent government notice indicates that the Department of Justice may try to change either this deadline or other aspects of the rule. Here’s what’s happening and…
[This page is one of several pages on this website about the forthcoming book, Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech. Visit the main Digital Accessibility Ethics book page to learn more.] Digital Accessibility Ethics: Disability Inclusion in All Things Tech is on its way. Our publication date has been delayed until early May,…
Amidst the cruelty and chaos of president trump and the current federal administration in the United States, December 2025 brought news of a font change for documents in the State Department. A font change of course is small in comparison to the local, national, and global harms of the administration. Yet I think the “font…
Digital accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. In the United States and other countries, civil rights are baked into laws mandating accessibility. Among other things, these laws have different remedies available to people with disabilities who have been denied access to web content. If someone sues under the ADA the remedies available to…
Another class action lawsuit has been filed by a small business that purchased an overlay monthly subscription, yet still got hit with a lawsuit claiming its website was not accessible. This suit against UserWay by a small online florist, described below, is similar in scope to the class action lawsuit filed against AccessiBe, another overlay…
Note about Updates This article is about many of the laws and regulations that lie at the intersection of healthcare and digital accessibility in the United States. It was first published in 2023 when there was a Democrat (Joe Biden) in the White House. It has been updated many times since then. Instead of writing…
[Note: this article was first written in August 2022 when the United States Department of Justice announced its as of then most recent intent to adopt technical accessibility regulations for state and local government websites and mobile applications. Follow along with what has happened since then in the Update section of this article]. In the…
The unemployment rate for people with disabilities in the United States is at an unacceptable high rate. As the US Bureau of Labor Statistics stated in a February 2022 informational release : "Across all educational attainment groups, unemployment rates for persons with a disability were higher than those for persons without a disability." Two new resources from the US federal government address…
