Time to submit comments to oppose a republic plan to rollback rules that help people with #disabilities get hired by federal contractors. Comments (they can be short!) due this Tuesday Sept. 2. All the info you need is here: www.lflegal.com/2025/08/comm... Thx @dredf.bsky.social

Glad to be joining #Accessibility Scotland for a gathering we're calling Stories, Ethics, and the Accessibility Cookie. Join us on September 9 in #Edinburgh www.tickettailor.com/events/acces... Who do I know in #Scotland? #disability #a11y

Structured #negotiation has been used to advance digital #accessibility and #Disability Rights for 30 years. @workaccord.bsky.social in Australia is reviewing the book chapter by chapter. Chapter 9 below. book link here. Thx Andrew Wood! #ADR #a11y www.lflegal.com/book/structu... #bookSky

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

I think it is #resistance when a long time US Accessible media leader turns down the FCC’s chairman‘s award for #Accessibility advancement because of that chairman‘s attacks on public media in the US. Guest post from Larry Goldberg here. www.lflegal.com/2025/07/larr... #disability #access #NPR #PBS

Advocacy works! US agency delays trump proposed rollback of access rules for new buildings. Why? 20,000 comments were filed opposing the rule! Update here. #disability #advocacy www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener...

In our reading of Lainey Feingold's (2021) Structured Negotiation 2nd ed, we are discovering that “the Right Thing to Do” may be established in relational rather than in legal space. open.substack.com/pub/andrew26... @lflegal.bsky.social #StructuredNegotiation #ADRDesign

It's the eve of the European #Accessibility Act! Here's my article -- Dreams and Gratitutde for the #EAA #disability #EU www.lflegal.com/2025/06/euro...

Important read by the wonderful @nhannahjones.bsky.social on how trump has initiated “the broadest and most significant assault on civil rights and racial integration in this country in more than a century.” Gift article. #Resist www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

This is fun! The Spanish edition of my book will be officially announced tomorrow at a gathering in Basque Country Spain. I'll be on zoom. Reps of the Basque government will be there. Structured Negotiation is mentioned in their Universal Accessibility Strategy #a11y www.lflegal.com/2025/06/span...

@berkeleyscanner.com Big turnout in Albany (not the NY one) #NoKings #Resist

#NoKings rally in Albany California. Lots of people of all ages in this little town next to Berkeley California. #Resist. Cc @meidastouch.com

The most Los Angeles sign ever. And it’s true.

Digital #accessibility is a global community, not just an industry, not just a job. I got a beautiful taste of that during a recent trip to Japan. Today I share a guest article by @makotoueki.bsky.social about how he built/is building that community in Japan. #a11y www.lflegal.com/2025/06/japa...

I forgot the hashtags. Recent updates on the LF Legal website are about #disability #accessibilty #a11y #overlays #healthTech And for the one about commenting on trump’s effort to roll back new construction requirements—I’m calling that #Resistance.

New updates to articles on the LFLegal website: New info about how to object to trump administration proposed rollback of new construction rules: www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener... The million dollar fine against accessiBe overlay company was finalized in April: www.lflegal.com/2025/01/ftc-.... And ..

#earthquake #Berkeley. Kinda tiny here #BerkelekyEarthquake

Thanks @caztcha.bsky.social I’m glad for the chance to amplify @makotoueki.bsky.social and the great work of all of you who are growing the #accessibility community in #Japan. #disability

And then there’s this: if trump has his way, they will eliminate the legal service corporation. It provides free legal aid to millions of Americans in civil cases (not criminal). Since 1974. www.lsc.gov/press-releas... #AccessToJustice #resist

Another thing. Trump team trying to roll back 40+ year old regulations saying new construction has to be accessible. Here’s my piece today about how to file comments against this attack on #DisabilityRights: www.lflegal.com/2025/06/ener.... Will digital #accessibility be next?

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I've been writing articles for Global #Accessibility Awareness Day ( #GAAD ) on my website off and on since the first one on May 9, 2012. By far my most popular GAAD post was in 2022. Here it is: The Hitchhiker's Guide to Global Accessibility Awareness Day. #a11y www.lflegal.com/2022/05/hitc...

Friday @nytimes.com crossword puzzles are always hard. Didn’t know any of the across clues til this one! (Clue: ____text (label for a screen reader). Answer? ALT. #accessibility #a11y.

Re-posting with some hashtags because it’s true - @berkeleyblink.bsky.social has written a great book! #accessibility #blind #MacArthurGenius #blueskybook #bookRecommendations #BookSky

This will be fun! If you are anywhere near #Berkeley CA this Saturday 5/10 join me at Berkeley public library main branch at 2:00 for a conversation w/Josh Miele @berkeleyblink.bsky.social about his wonderful new memoir. berkeleypubliclibrary.libnet.info/event/13198186 #accessibility #disability

#Accessibility is a civil right. It’s not a checklist and it’s not new. Thx @dredf.bsky.social for the reminder that today is the 26th anniversary of #WCAG 1.0 (Web Content, Accessibility Guidelines ). And reminding me of what I wrote when WCAG turned 20! #a11y

Don't hack #accessibility features of crossing signals. It's not a joke. It's a safety risk, civil rights violation, an unethical thing to do. Yes, someone did hack signals in Palo Alto with the "voice" of musk + zuckerberg. I wrote about it here: www.lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-... #blind #disability

Berkeley showed up. #HandsOff. My favorite sign in this crowd was “where do I begin?“ and the dogs wearing signs that said dogs against doge.

Ready for #HandsOff Berkeley gathering with @beyondchron.bsky.social and our matching t shirts that say “I survived Reagan-Bush 1980-1992”

Good legal #resistance news today from Rhode Island Judge appointed by...trump during his first term: "Judge to temporarily block Trump administration from yanking $11B in health funds from states" Eleven BILLION dollars to help keep people healthy safe alive rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/04/03/r...

Today I posted the slides from my 2025 Digital #Accessibility Legal Update at the CSUN conference along with the video that has captions, #ASL, + transcript. I also shared my goals for the talk and why it was the hardest update I've delivered. www.lflegal.com/2025/03/2025... #a11y #law #disability

I think we each need to read the actual words -every word- of the racist attack on truth, history, and progress that is the “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History” executive order. Chilling. #Smithsonian www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Here is the 2024 Op-Ed in the Tufts student newspaper that PhD student and Fullbright scholar Rumeysa Ozturk co-wrote. For this she was arrested in the night, taken to another state, and had her visa revoked. www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024.... As a Jewish person I condemn this. #NotInMyName

Jim Thatcher's birthday today. Co-developed one of the first screen readers, #accessibility champion, friend who taught me so much. Here's what I wrote when he died in 2019. www.lflegal.com/2019/12/jim-... #a11y #disability #JimThatcher

Today’s Digital #accessibility legal update: new lawsuit filed against a public university in West Virginia for inaccessible #EdTech, and failure to accommodate two #blind graduate students. #ADA and Section 504 claims. www.lflegal.com/2025/03/west.... #a11y #disability

I accidentally looked at my July 2024 article titled #Project2025 and the Threat to #Disabled People" www.lflegal.com/2024/07/proj... They revealed the blueprint; it's supporters won, and now it's happening in real time. Even though I wrote this damn article, it's so much worse than I envisioned.

New today: #Deaf Indigenous woman files legal complaint alleging she was denied promotion because companies used Artificial Intelligence assessment tools. More in the update to my #AI hiring tool article with links to press release and complaint. www.lflegal.com/2022/05/disa... #accessibility

If I ever stop being an “active” #lawyer in CA it will be because of the #MCLE requirements -minimum continuing legal education. Listening to an MCLE ethics webinar + learned that if you are engaged to a lawyer on the other side of a case, there’s a conflict of interest. Isn’t that obvious?!

Well that wasn’t expected! Negative comments about my talk on the YouTube link from someone who think “not everything has to be about trump”. Sorry to say that when it comes to civil rights, #Disability, #Accessibility, and so much more, it actually does. m.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyW...

#Berkeley earthquake?!

Great to see you in Anaheim @aardrian.bsky.social and thanks for the shout-out in your recap. #accessibility #disability #CSUNATC

Captioned recording (w ASL) of my #CSUNATC US digital #accessibility legal update talk. Trying to find the balance between risks and hope in this terrible time in the United States: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fQyW.... #disability #a11y #CSUN #CSUNATC2025

More good #resistance news from the U.S. — trump/musk ordered to reinstate thousands of federal workers they fired illegally. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/u...

Tomorrow at #CSUNATC at 8:00am I’ll offer the CSUN 40th anniversary digital #accessibility legal update. I’ve done this talk for many years and it’s never been more challenging.

Great film for our time #labor #union #Farmworkers #CesarChavez

On the list of words that the New York Times says are flagged by U.S. federal government agencies to avoid or limit their use are #disability #accessible #women #race #gender #discrimination #immigrants +++ Let’s make songs and poetry with all the words on the list www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I will do the U.S. Digital #Accessibility Legal Update at the #CSUN conference next week. This session, the keynote + 2 other featured talks will be FREE on YouTube at the link in the post below the evening they are delivered. Info on these talks here: web.cvent.com/event/2c5d8c... #disability #a11y

During my #AxeCon talk I had a slide quoting @timothysnyder.bsky.social reading "Do Not Obey in Advance." In the chat someone wrote: "With regard to not opening in advance, there are other ways to #resist. Here's a WW2 era manual on resisting authoritarians www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184...

Tomorrow is book launch day for “Connecting Dots, A Blind Life” by @berkeleyblink.bsky.social This week’s events in Berkeley (w @alixwall.bsky.social ), SF, and Menlo Park here: mielelab.com/connecting-d.... I’ve read the book and (very) highly recommend! #accessibility #BlueSkyAuthor #disability

Songs needed now: All You Fascists Bound to Lose Video: Resistance Revival Chorus w/Rhiannon Giddens: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWUa... Lyrics by Woody Guthrie: www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/All_Y... Please add yours. #Resist