Accessibility News April 30,2016 Update

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The AODA Clock is Ticking

There are 8 years, 35 weeks, 2 days till a fully Accessible Ontario! Will you be compliant?

In this Issue

FCC Adopts Real-Time Text Proposed Rulemaking

The Federal Communications Commission today approved a proposal to utilize real-time text to ensure that people with disabilities who rely on text to communicate have accessible and effective telephone access.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/fcc-adopts-real-time-text-proposed-rulemaking/

YMCA of Greater Toronto Opens Its Most Accessible Centre Yet

Cooper Koo Family Cherry St. YMCA design goes above and beyond latest accessibility standards

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http://www.aoda.ca/ymca-of-greater-toronto-opens-its-most-accessible-centre-yet/

Family Protests Airline’s Rejection of Special Seat for Son Who Has Cerebral Palsy

Cathay Pacific had approved the seat months before but turned it away at Pearson, says mother of boy with cerebral palsy, who can’t sit up without it.

Alastair Sharp, daughter Tallula, 3, son Sebastian, 7, and wife Kara found themselves turned away from a flight to Australia at Pearson Airport last week because the airline refused to let them use Sebastian’s special seat designed to help him sit upright.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/family-protests-airlines-rejection-of-special-seat-for-son-who-has-cerebral-palsy/

Mertl: Here are 10 Reasons to Hire Workers With Disabilities

In Ottawa, people who live with disabilities are often underemployed and only 43 per cent participate in the labour market, compared to 70 per cent of the general population.

With an aging workforce and shortage of young skilled workers, employees with disabilities offer a large untapped talent pool for employers.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/mertl-here-are-10-reasons-to-hire-workers-with-disabilities/

CRA Hurting Disabled Canadians, Advocates Say

Almost two years ago, Ottawa passed a bill to limit what consultants could charge when helping others file for the disability tax credit. But the bill didn’t specify a limit and experts say the delay is hitting people with disabilities in their wallets.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/cra-hurting-disabled-canadians-advocates-say/

Cuts Make for Lost Generation: Critics

By Patrick Maloney, The London Free Press
Monday, April 18, 2016

Jordan Boufford, 17, a teen with autism who greatly benefitted from Intensive Behavioural Intervention, is speaking out against a move by the provincial government to limit funding for the treatment to autistic children no older than four.

As families and activists battle against changes to an Ontario government-funded treatment for autistic children, a London teen who’s been through it already is at the tip of the spear.

Jordan Boufford, 17, has benefited from a decade-plus of so-called IBI therapy which the provincial Liberals will no longer fund for children older than age four and he met with heavy-hitting London MPP Deb Matthews, the deputy premier, during a recent protest outside her office.

Accessibility News April 23,2016 Update

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The AODA Clock is Ticking

There are 8 years, 36 weeks, 2 days till a fully Accessible Ontario! Will you be compliant?

In this Issue

Even More Media Coverage of Problems with Accessible Customer Service in Ontario

More Media Coverage on Recurring Denials of Accessible Customer Service in Ontario

Recent media coverage, set out below, once again shows the harm Ontarians with disabilities must suffer, because of the Wynne Government’s ongoing failure to keep its promise to effectively enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

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http://www.aoda.ca/even-more-media-coverage-of-problems-with-accessible-customer-service-in-ontario/

The Blind Leading the Blind: How Berkeley Alums Are Designing an Inclusive World

Joshua Miele has been blind ever since a violent acid attack took away his vision before his 5th birthday. But he says he no longer spends time wishing he could see. Instead, from his office at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, he dreams up new technologies for the blind, and helps turn those visions into reality: maps that can talk, YouTube videos that can speak, electronic gloves that can text.

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http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/the-blind-leading-the-blind-how-berkeley-alums-are-designing-an-inclusive-world/