Hello everyone,
The Digital Gap Initiative (DGI)is very proud and very excited to join with
the Australian Human Rights Centre (AHR Centre) and the Public Interest
Advocacy Centre (PIAC),to co-host a seminar by US disability rights lawyer,
Lainey Feingold, in Sydney on 14 November 2017. We warmly thank Lainey for
making herself available to join us at this 1-night only seminar , on this
her very first visit to Australia. We thank our co-hosting partners for
their active role in planning this event with DGI, and also the Ashurst
legal firm for providing their auspicious venue at Martin Place, Sydney.
Please see all event and registration details below. All welcome.
Kind regards,
Gisele
Gisele Mesnage
Founder and Coordinator
Digital Gap Initiative
email: gisele@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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phone: 02-9799 5388
or 0428 260 600 (landline preferred)
web: http://www.digitalgap.org/
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Subject: Invitation to Seminar - Structured Negotiation
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The
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eid=48865d9572> Public Interest Advocacy Centre and the
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ick?u=34bbc8dd21e24b7b231922920&id=73959e69ea&e=48865d9572> Digital Gap
Initiative invite you to a seminar:
Structured Negotiation and the quest for equal access in the digital age:
lessons from the US disability rights movement
with US disability rights lawyer Lainey Feingold
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Date: Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Time: 5.30pm - 7pm
Venue: Ashurst Australia, Level 11, 5 Martin Place, Sydney
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otiation-lessons-from-the-us-disability-rights-movement-tickets-37592246421
?mc_cid=41ac41547a&mc_eid=48865d9572> RSVP*
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register your interest.
Disability rights advocates in the US are pushing to make the digital world
accessible to everyone. Talking ATMs, accessible websites and mobile apps,
talking prescription labels, audio description, and accessible health care
and financial information have all benefited from an approach pioneered and
developed by Lainey Feingold, entitled Structured Negotiation.
At the seminar, Lainey will discuss her 20 years of collaboration to
advance disability civil rights and how US strategies could be used in
Australia. She will also bring the audience up to date on what is happening
with US digital accessibility court cases, laws, and regulations. Websites
are global, tech companies are global and digital advocacy is global too.
<mhtml:mid://00002007/!x-usc:http://www.lflegal.com/?mc_cid=41ac41547a&mc_e
id=48865d9572> Lainey Feingold is a US disability civil rights lawyer,
author and public speaker. She has represented blind people and their
organizations across the US since 1995 on issues including accessible
websites and mobile apps, talking ATMs, talking prescription labels, and
accessible pedestrian signals. Her book, Structured Negotiation, A Winning
Alternative to Lawsuits, was published by the American Bar Association
(ABA) in 2016. It tells the story of the dispute resolution process she
pioneered that avoids lawsuits in favour of win-win solutions to complex
legal issues. Lainey and her clients have used Structured Negotiation with
some of the largest organisations in the United States to protect and
advance the rights of blind people to access digital information and other
technologies. The book can be purchased on the night (limited copies
available). For readers with print disabilities, Structured Negotiation is
available in epub format through the
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tDetails.aspx?productId=254116970&term=Structured&mc_cid=41ac41547a&mc_eid=
48865d9572> ABA, or with enhanced typesetting enabled in the ebook version
from
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Winning-Alternative-Lawsuits/dp/1634255445/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=148581527
2&sr=8-1&keywords=LAINEY+FEINGOLD&mc_cid=41ac41547a&mc_eid=48865d9572>
Amazon or on
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ZA%3D%3D&mc_cid=41ac41547a&mc_eid=48865d9572> Bookshare.
Order of events
5.30pm: Light refreshments
6pm - 7pm: Seminar and Q&A
Gisele Mesnage
email: giselemesnage@xxxxxxxxxxx
phone: 02 9799 5388