Southwest ADA Center

02/18/2026

Photo: Signs from the Harris County Clerk stating "Harris County Elections Postings"

Harris County faces a lawsuit claiming its current voting system is not accessible for people with disabilities, especially those with reading and writing challenges.

02/18/2026

News from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

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02/10/2026

Photo: "Terrance Winn, 52, of Shreveport, La., at the U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge on February 5, 2026." Credit: Christiana Botic/Verite News and Catchlight Local/Report for America

Prison reform advocates are trying to put an end to the Louisiana State Penitentiary forcing prisoners to do agriculture work in harsh weather conditions.

02/06/2026

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A group of Arkansas parolees is suing the Department of Corrections, the board that conducts parole hearings and others, saying people appearing at parole hearings are routinely denied access to attorneys and aren’t screened to see if they qualify for a state-funded lawyer at the hearing.

02/06/2026

Photo: "Newly-elected Board of Corrections Chair Jamie Barker, left, talks to newly elected board Vice-Chair Nathan Lee, right, with newly-appointed Post-Prison Transfer Board chair Boyce Hamlet in-between on Jan. 23, 2026 in North Little Rock. (Photo by Ainsley Platt/Arkansas Advocate)"

The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas sued top prison officials in federal court Monday, alleging that the state’s parole revocation procedures unconstitutionally deprived people of their due process rights.

02/06/2026

Photo: Signs showing Harris County Elections Postings

A group of voters, alongside the national Federation of the Blind of Texas, say the only options for them to vote by mail require assistance from someone with sight, preventing them from casting a ballot in private.

02/06/2026

Image: American Bar Association logo

The ABA Commission on Disability Rights interviewed Nicole Porter, Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School, about her article, “Troubling Trends: ADA Definition of Disability Cases, 2019–2023,” 52 Pepp. L. Rev. 455 (2025).

02/06/2026

Photo: Niketa Ingram gives a snack to Michael Nawrocki, left, and Richard Larrabee, right, at a group home in Joliet, Ill. (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

In a new twist in a long-running lawsuit, a coalition of states is challenging the right of people with disabilities to live and receive services in the community as opposed to institutions.

01/30/2026

Photo shows a woman with short dark hair dressed in a T-shirt and sweat pants squatting on one knee holding a medium sized ball

Reading Time: 8 minutesIt’s June 2024, and I am 15 years old attending my first summer academy at the California School for the Blind. My new friend Chloe Clemens—who I’ve known for about a day now–runs over to me excitedly and tells me that I should go to the gym and play goalball with her....

01/29/2026

Registration is OPEN! Sign up for the free ADA State of the Science Research Conference on February 26 and March 12, 2026 today. The conference will be on Zoom and will include captions, ASL interpretation, and CART.

Register here: https://adata.org/sos-2026

01/29/2026

The NIDILRR-funded Rehabilitation Research and Training Center (RRTC) on Employment Among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) 2024 released the latest episode of the Zooming into Focus podcast, Research Study Four Principal Investigator Jaclyn Camden. https://loom.ly/-D3271Y Presenters discussed the project to create a technical assistance and training model for college professionals to improve employment opportunities for college students with IDD.