A 2022 Legal Update of the Digital Accessibility Landscape with Lainey Feingold
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Join us as we kick off our eighth year of A11yBay! We'll start 2022 with style, by welcoming Lainey Feingold, author and disability rights lawyer in the digital accessibility space. Lainey will help us all "put the law in our pockets" by sharing what's happening in the digital accessibility legal space and by reminding us why accessibility is a civil right of disabled people. Curious about what's happening with lawsuits about digital accessibility? Interested in other legal strategies advocates use to advance accessibility? Want to help your organization stay ahead of the legal curve? No matter what your role in accessibility, your work can help advance civil rights of disabled people. Join us!
EVENT AGENDA:
7:00 pm — Event begins, welcome new members. Accessibility industry job announcements & job seeker intros.
7:15 to 8:15 pm — Talk: A 2022 Legal Update of the Digital Accessibility Landscape with Lainey Feingold
8:15 to 8:45 pm — [Optional] Socializing & networking in zoom breakout rooms, for anyone who'd enjoy hanging out online after the talk to chat with old friends & new meetup members.
ZOOM DETAILS:
• How to participate via zoom:
The Zoom URL will be shared via email with people who RSVP via Meetup app or site. It will and also published on this event page on the day of the event.
Check to make sure your email settings are enabled to receive "event updates from organizers" (https://www.meetup.com/account/comm/a11ybay/) in your account settings or you may not receive the message.
• How socializing in break out rooms will work:
We’ll use the zoom breakout rooms feature to give folks an opportunity to network and chat with others in smaller conversations with randomized participants.
If you do not feel comfortable making conversation with other people during this meetup, we'll pause briefly after the main talks so you can log off. Those who want to chat just stay on the zoom!