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Talk Cocktail · Jul 25, 2026

Design as an Act of Inclusion

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Jeff Schechtman · Talk Cocktail Podcast

The digital world is being rebuilt around AI, and for the first time in a generation the concrete of that world is still wet.

Lainey Feingold thinks that's the opportunity! Technology can now read any text aloud, describe any image, caption any voice in real time — the most powerful equalizer disabled people have ever had, if it's designed in rather than bolted on.

Feingold, a disability rights lawyer who won talking ATMs and accessible banking without ever filing a lawsuit, has gathered thirty-nine authors from ten countries into Digital Accessibility Ethics. Their case: build for the person at the edge and everyone gets a better product. Who do we decide to build for?

Read the original on jeffschechtman.substack.com

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