The Digital Accessibility Legal Landscape
summary
Overview of concrete legal trends: federal agencies issue guidance and DOJ secures findings against states (Oklahoma, Texas) while agencies and courts push accessibility into procurement and health tech; enforcement yields real fixes — California Parks false claims settlement ~$2M forces remediation, a community college district pays a $240k verdict, and kiosks cases (LabCorp, CVS) and first VR captioning rulings create precedents. Litigation volume is high — 4,600 digital cases (2023), 97% web, 2% mobile, 933 overlay cases — and industry builds usable solutions like CVS talking prescription feature integrated into its mainstream app.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and speaker background
- 1:54What is digital accessibility?
- 10:34US legal framework overview
- 20:32Current laws and regulations
- 29:01Law implementation and enforcement
- 36:29Least favorite parts of the landscape
- 40:36Global accessibility laws
- 41:41Q&A session
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