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As well, a troubling 157 days have passed since we wrote the Ontario Government to ask for its plans to keep its pledge to effectively enforce the AODA. We have received no substantive public response to that inquiry.
Apple’s iOS 7 beta includes new head gestures that enable users to control their iPhones by moving their heads left or right.
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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/ios-7-includes-new-head-gestures-to-control-your-iphone/
WYNNE GOVERNMENT HONOURS NATIONAL ACCESS AWARENESS WEEK BY BREACHING THE ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
No matter how frustrated, we soldier on, undeterred. Premier Wynne called me two months ago, warmly offering to work together on making Ontario fully accessible to people with disabilities. Today’s failure to obey the law should be a wake-up call to the government to take the entire accessibility issue off its back burner where it has languished for two years. Let today’s bad news spur our new premier to act decisively, boldly and broadly on accessibility. Let it cause her to restore the swiftness, determination and vigour on this issue that the government commendably demonstrated a decade ago, and to keep all her commitments on accessibility.
By Hayley Tsukayama and Tom Hamburger | 04:15 PM ET, 06/26/2013
Negotiators at the World Intellectual Property Organization have finalized terms on a copyright treaty that would provide more book access to the world’s blind and visually impaired.
Elections Ontario Refuses to Now Use Its Authority To Test Telephone and/or Internet Voting in By-Elections, Despite Their Use in 59 Municipalities in Ontario and Nova Scotia and No Findings that They Were Hacked or Unreliable
By Victor Schwartzman
Today the Ontario Government held a media conference to break its silence on the failure to appoint a new Independent Review of the Government’s implementation of AODA.
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http://www.aoda.ca/ontario-government-breaks-silence-on-aoda/
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As they’ve watched their five-year-old son Alexander grow, Jalil and Julie Khoury realized their comfortable two-storey east Windsor home was shrinking his world just as he was becoming more eager to engage it.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/accessible-housing-offers-freedom-for-disabled/
Calling it a “moral issue,” the president of Sault Ste. Marie’s oldest theatre group wants to make the Bayview venue accessible to the disabled or move to a new location that is.
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http://www.aoda.ca/stw-wants-disabled-in-house/
