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In this Issue
*Breaking Their Own Law: Week 9;
*Canada’s failing grade on disability rights
*Canada’s Elderly at High Risk of Suicide, Can’t Afford Mental Health Care: Experts
*AODA Alliance Makes Public the Disability Accessibility Commitments of Ontario By-election Candidates: NDP Makes All Commitments We Seek Liberals Make None of them Conservatives Don’t Answer
*Game Changer in Ontario’s By-elections
*Minister Hoskins: “AODA Delayed Because We Have No Balls”
*FCC Proposes Making TV Menus Accessible to Blind
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ARTICLES:
Breaking Their Own Law: Week 9;
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.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/wynne-government-honours-national-access-awareness-week-by-breaching-the-accessibility-for-ontarians-with-disabilities-act/
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Canada’s failing grade on disability rights
When I retired in 2003, my Nova Scotia-born spouse and I moved to Halifax from Boston. Lock, stock and wheelchair. Family, friends, Canadian values, social justice, single-payer health, the great outdoors, the sea and Maritime culture all beckoned. We were here full-time until 2007, when it became too frustrating and impractical to continue. Why would I want to live in a place where my wheelchair and I are excluded every day, and told nothing will be done about it?
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/canadas-failing-grade-on-disability-rights/
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Canada’s Elderly at High Risk of Suicide, Can’t Afford Mental Health Care: Experts
TORONTO Studies show that Canada’s elderly are at a much higher risk of suicide than adolescents, and there is growing concern among mental health experts that psychological care may be out of reach for most seniors.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/canadas-elderly-at-high-risk-of-suicide-cant-afford-mental-health-care-experts/
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AODA Alliance Makes Public the Disability Accessibility Commitments of Ontario By-election Candidates: NDP Makes All Commitments We Seek Liberals Make None of them Conservatives Don’t Answer
In other accessibility news, an unexplained 59 days have passed since the legal deadline for the Ontario Government to appoint an Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. The Government is still violating that law. It is thereby continuing to set a terrible example for other organizations that have to obey that law.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/aoda-alliance-makes-public-the-disability-accessibility-commitments-of-ontario-by-election-candidates-ndp-makes-all-commitments-we-seek-liberals-make-none-of-them-conservatives-do/
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Game Changer in Ontario’s By-elections
By Steven Christianson National Manager, Government Relations
March of Dimes Canada
There’s at least one thing that voters won’t have to ask of the candidates in any of the five by-elections currently underway across southern Ontario. They won’t have to bother asking “is your campaign accessible for volunteers and voters with disabilities?”
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/game-changer-in-ontarios-by-elections/
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Minister Hoskins: “AODA Delayed Because We Have No Balls”
By Victor Schwartzman
The Ontario Government has been under fire for not implementing AODA legislation, with critics accusing it of not having the courage to implement AODA.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/minister-hoskins-aoda-delayed-because-we-have-no-balls/
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FCC Proposes Making TV Menus Accessible to Blind
Federal regulators are unveiling draft rules to make cable and television menus accessible to the blind and visually impaired.
The proposal from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will require that users have an option have onscreen menus read out loud, helping the blind understand what’s playing on different channels.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/fcc-proposes-making-tv-menus-accessible-to-blind/
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AODA Enforcement
Having an Accessibility issue that isn’t being resolved because of lack of Enforcement?
Perhaps your solution is at enforcement.aoda.ca .
* Government Not Enforcing Disabilities Act, Says Advocate
http://enforcement.aoda.ca/government-not-enforcing-disabilities-act-says-advocate/
* Enforcing the IASR Transportation Standards: Where do we go for help?
http://enforcement.aoda.ca/enforcing-the-iasr-transportation-standards-where-do-we-go-for-help/
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EVENTS
*Celebration of People Call for Nominations!
http://www.accessibilityclassifieds.com/?p=1290
*Life as Jamie Knows It Parenting and Educating Children with Disabilities
http://www.accessibilityclassifieds.com/?p=1283
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