Taxicab passengers with disabilities or mobility issues that require the storage and transport of aids or assistive devices cannot be charged a higher fare than able-bodied passengers, according to provincial accessibility legislation discussed at last week’s Committee of the Whole meeting in North Grenville.
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Author: Yosie Saint-Cyr
Under the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulations of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), effective January 1, 2012, organizations in Ontario must provide and make available in an accessible format or with appropriate communication supports, information about emergency response plans or public safety to customers and employees with disabilities.
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Seventeen years ago today, on November 29, 1994, the non-partisan grassroots community coalition to campaign for a strong and effective Disabilities Act in Ontario was born. It was originally called the Ontarians with Disabilities Act Committee.
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In this Issue
*The CLBC Controversy
*Apple’s AssistiveTouch Helps the Disabled Use a Smartphone
*Three Developments in Our Quest for Internet and Telephone Voting to Promote Accessibility for Voters With Disabilities
*Ontario: Macy’s Diner Leads the Way in Restaurant Menu Accessibility
*Cities Study How to Become Age-Friendly
*OPSEU to Frances Lankin: Improve Income Assistance for People With Disabilities
*McGuinty Government Ducks Complaint About Its Contraversial Choice of Whom to Conduct Independent Review of Bill 107
*Everyone Has a Role to Play
By Victor Schwartzman and Paul Caune
“We must never forget BC public sector unions fought against liberating people with disabilities from institutions such as Woodlands. They have also stymied reform at Vancouver’s George Pearson Centre for decades. As recently as 2005, they lied about the quality of care there.
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By David Pogue
Plenty has been written about the new iPhone 4S, with its voice-controlled virtual assistant Siri, and about iOS 5, its software.
But in writing a book about both, I stumbled across an amazingly thoughtful feature that I haven’t seen a word about: something called AssistiveTouch.
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Here are three recent developments in our campaign to make elections in Ontario fully accessible for persons with disabilities:
* On November 17, 2011, Elections Ontario responded to our October 28 letter, in which we had asked for a progress report on internet and telephone voting. Elections Ontario defers most of our inquiries to the future.
* Toronto Star columnist Martin Regg Cohn supports the need for internet voting to help fight low voter turnout.
* The state of Oregon experiments with use of the iPad to make voting more accessible for some voters with disabilities.
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By Sandra Rhodda
Now Ontarian restaurateurs have a solution in aMENU – a website developed by Geoff Collis – where participating restaurants can place their menus so that they can be accessed not only with assistive devices but portable devices such as mobile phones. Menus can be read before a patron even gets to an establishment. The first restaurant leading the way by participating is Macy’s Diner & Delicatessen
TORONTO – Lucy Howe rides a scooter to get around but she bounces uncomfortably when the sidewalks are rough and cracked. Curb cuts that form ramps for getting across the street aren’t always wide enough for the scooter, and it’s especially difficult in winter.
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