Trump Budget Cuts Threaten Access to Disability Rights Lawyers

The Trump administration is trying to slash access to lawyers who defend the rights of Americans with disabilities, advocates say. Most of the lawyers work either for the Department of Justice or for disability rights agencies that Congress set up in every state decades ago. Many of the Justice Department lawyers quit in 2025 after being reassigned to other duties, their supporters say.

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Battlefield alum DevAlly raises €2M to help companies with Europe’s feisty new accessibility law

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/09/battlefield-alum-devally-raises-e2m-to-help-companies-with-europes-feisty-new-accessibility-law/

How Train Riders With Disabilities Are Faring on Amtrak

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/travel/amtrak-riders-passengers-disabilities.html

Via #USAtoday @ 11:06 on June 12, 2025

The #SupremeCourt on June 12 unanimously sided with a #disabled student trying to sue her school for not doing enough to accommodate her rare form of #epilepsy, a decision that could make it easier for families to seek damages under the #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct.

The justices said a lower court used the wrong standard when rejecting the #discrimination lawsuit.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/12/supreme-court-decision-student-disability-discrimination-case/83776317007/

Analysis of 2024 #ADA change re: #Nondiscrimination on the Basis of #Disability ; #Accessibility of #Web Information and Services of State and Local #Government Entities

#libraries #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #webcontent
#perceivability #operability #understandability #robustness

https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/11/how-changes-to-ada-title-ii-impact-libraries-and-what-we-can-do-to-respond/

More on #Trump's changes to #Ada, #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct
#Project2025
"DOJ streamlines ADA compliance for businesses"

The six other pieces (changed) related to accessible features in retail establishments and lodging facilities, customer service protocols at hotels, input from customers with disabilities, reaching out to customers with disabilities and assistance at self-service gas stations.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5205795-justice-department-ada-guidance/

There's a provision in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) that says disabled people have the right to train their own service dogs. Maya Cruz writes for @TeenVogue about the joys and challenges of training Rosalie, who helps her manage the symptoms of her obsessive compulsive disorder, and talks to other young disabled people about their experiences. “In the training process, you just learn how to advocate for your dog — you learn how to ask for things, and how to say, I just need to take a moment, my dog needs a break," says Carmen, whose dog is called Pochita. "And I’ve learned how to do that for myself now, too. I have learned that this dog is going to give me access to the world, and I deserve that access. Now, I tell myself, you deserve this. But I started by learning how to advocate for my dog.”

https://flip.it/8SuFfx

#Disability #AmericansWithDisabilitiesAct #Lifestyle #DogsOfMastodon #Culture #Dogs #Autism #OCD #Neurodivergent #ServiceDog #Pets