By Victor Schwartzman
It lumbers towards us, dead yet somehow alive: the Zombie Election. Don’t let it get too close. The Zombie Election will eat your brains!
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/the-zombie-election/
By Victor Schwartzman
It lumbers towards us, dead yet somehow alive: the Zombie Election. Don’t let it get too close. The Zombie Election will eat your brains!
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/the-zombie-election/
Karin Hitselberger
When you apologize for my wheelchair, my disability, you apologize for the person I’ve become. When you apologize for my wheelchair, you make it seem like I’m the problem, like who I am is so bad that I deserve an apology for just having to live. My wheelchair is
part of who I am, as is my disability, and I am proud of them.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/to-the-people-who-react-to-my-disability-with-im-sorry/
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In this Issue
A Memorial University student with a hearing disability is upset that one of his professors refused to wear a sound-transmitting device last week during a lecture, and he said she told him it was because of religious reasons.
Friday, September 18, 2015
by Gisele Mesnage and Ted McCoskey
Our first editorial is not published with the intent of naming and shaming the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) or any other business. Our message is that the story of Albert highlights the need for national, compliance-based standards on digital accessibility.
Albert is a new touch-screen tablet EFTPOS payment device developed and promoted by CBA in partnership with global hardware and software specialist Wincor Nixdorf and design firm IDEO.
Read more at
http://digitalgap.org/2015/09/18/commbanks-new-eftpos-albert-accessibility-short-changed/
But disability rights activist David Lepofsky said the tools fall short, since users will still have to seek sighted help to see if the ballot is properly aligned within the template. Past elections, he said, have consistently been marred by half-baked solutions.
“The ability to mark the ballot has several components: independently marking your own ballot in private, and being able to verify that you marked it correctly,” he said.
More Media Coverage on Federal and Provincial Disability Accessibility Campaigns and AODA Alliance News Release on Tonight’s TTC Accessible Transit Public Forum
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/attend-september-29-2015-toronto-all-candidates-debate-on-federal-elections-disability-issues/
With a new year approaching, employers will once again need to prepare for a new set of obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
“The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act is one of Ontario’s best-kept employment law secrets,” says Doug MacLeod of the MacLeod Law Firm.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/focus-employers-urged-to-prepare-for-new-aoda-requirements/
By Raymond Burr, with the help of Victor Schwartzman
Although I passed away in 1993, we all live forever on the internet. Recently I was contacted by the political parties in the current Canadian federal election. They contacted me because I was a Canadian, an actor, and had acted the part of a person with a disability. They therefore thought I would be the best person to ask about a Canadians with Disabilities Act.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/raymond-burr-explains-canadians-with-disabilities-act/
by Louise Bark
Toronto hosted the PanAm/ParaPan Am Games and recruited over 23,000 volunteers. I was one of them. What an amazing experience!!
The one problem I encountered though was Wheel-Trans. What a nightmare.
Read more at
http://wheelchairdemon-transit.blogspot.ca/2015/08/wheel-trans-did-not-accommodate.html