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In this Issue
1) Message Board
2)Articles
*Impact to Be FarReaching
*Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes
*Dummies’ Guide to Web Accessibility for Disabled People
*DOJ Posts Online Editions of its 2010 ADA Standards
*About-Face on Plans to Scale Back Oshawa’s Accessibility Committee
*Meeting the Needs of Special Needs Students Virtually
*Quebec Short On English Sign-Language Translators
*Disabled Need Access, Not More Promises
*Disabilities Call for Papers
*Report Recommends Upgrading Transit System for the Disabled
*“Take Charge” of Your Travel This Holiday Season
*Cornell: Sites Will Be Upgraded for Disabled
*Acces to Information: A Critical Human Right
*Rights and Wrongs
*What Do human Rights Commissions and Tribunals Do?
3) Classifieds
4) This and That
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ARTICLES:
Impact to Be FarReaching
The County of Renfrew is doing its part to raise awareness of forthcoming accessibility laws for Ontario businesses and organizations.
This week, the County of Renfrew’s accessibility advisory committee along with the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation hosted a free accessibility and housing workshop at the county building.
Read more at
http://www.coaac.ca/?p=456
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Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes
KAWARTHA LAKES- Accessibility watchdog Geof Collis is after the City of Kawartha Lakes again -this time for meeting minutes that he can read on his Screen Reader.
Collis, in an e-mail to mayor Ric McGee (copied to The Lindsay Post), said “since this has been an issue for me in the past, I’m starting at the top and
working down.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=862
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Dummies’ Guide to Web Accessibility for Disabled People
There isn’t a need for individual websites to install technologies to assist people with disability. What’s needed is to ensure the website is compatible
with tools that people with disabilities use.
For instance, if a blind person is visiting a website means he or she is switching on the browser, and typing the web address in the address bar. This means
the person already has a tool that helps logging onto the website. Moreover, disabled persons use several websites like everybody, hence they don’t need
any special software to access the website. In fact, by doing so, one would be making the process tedious for them.
Read more at
http://www.badeyes.com/?p=266#more-266
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DOJ Posts Online Editions of its 2010 ADA Standards
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has posted official editions of its new 2010 ADA standards and companion guidance on its
ADA website.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1863
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About-Face on Plans to Scale Back Oshawa’s Accessibility Committee
Committee members call for more accommodation from City
OSHAWA — Local accessibility advocates breathed a sigh of relief Monday night, after council opted not to scale back the number of members on the Oshawa accessibility advisory committee.
Read more at
http://www.coaac.ca/?p=453
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Meeting the Needs of Special Needs Students Virtually
Students who interact with their peers during lessons are more motivated, more engaged with material, and more capable at learning language, communications, and listening skills. How do you retain that interaction for special needs students who might not have regular access–or any access–to a traditional classroom?
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1857
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Quebec Short On English Sign-Language Translators
Advocates for Quebec’s deaf Anglophone community say there is a huge gap in visual interpreting services in the province — and more professionals need to be trained.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1859
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Disabled Need Access, Not More Promises
The Manitoba Human Rights Commission’s 2009 report once again confirmed that discrimination based on disability is the foremost human rights issue facing this province.
Complaints based on disability accounted for 46.6% of all the human rights complaints filed with the MHRC in 2009.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1861
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Disabilities Call for Papers
Law Commission of Ontario Releases Six Commissioned Research Papers on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
In January 2010, the LCO issued a Call for Research Papers
related to its project on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities. The Call closed on February 12, 2010. Six research papers were completed through this Call for Papers, as follows:
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=868
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Report Recommends Upgrading Transit System for the Disabled
An Ontario consultant who studied the city’s Dial-a-Bus system for the disabled is recommending a five-year expansion of the service because the system isn’t meeting public demand.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1847
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“Take Charge” of Your Travel This Holiday Season
In an effort to help travellers with disabilities plan their travel this holiday season, the Canadian Transportation Agency is pleased to provide one of
its most popular publications, Take Charge of Your Travel: A Guide for Persons with Disabilities.
Take Charge helps Canadians living with disability to plan and conduct their travel plans with greater ease and confidence. It does so by describing accessible services and features available to persons with disabilities.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1849
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Cornell: Sites Will Be Upgraded for Disabled
After rejecting policy in 2009, University affirms commitment to disabled
Until he found a way to circumvent blocks of irrelevant text, Zachary Mason ’12, a blind student and Sun science writer, needed as long as 5 to 10 minutes to read a single e-mail on his CMail account, “just to find what the e-mail was telling me, who sent it and what was involved.”
Mason said he uses the program Jobs Access With Speech to transform a website’s images and text into an input he can understand. Yet the ease with which Mason uses JAWS depends on the programming of the website he is trying to access, and Mason called CMail’s internal framework “miserable.”
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1851
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Acces to Information: A Critical Human Right
In recognition of the UN’s annual Human Rights Day, December 10, Robin East, President of the nationwide Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians is calling for increased access to print materials, something most Canadians take for granted.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1845
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Rights and Wrongs
The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario seems to be a more frequent stop for injured workers with accommodation concerns since changes to the provincial human rights system were adopted two years ago.
“It’s becoming increasingly more common,” notes Ryan Conlin, a partner at SBH Management Lawyers in Toronto.
The 2008 amendments to Ontario’s Human Rights Code sought, in part, to get claims before the tribunal more quickly. That objective is being realized, but the process is leaving some employers to concurrently deal with both the tribunal and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), Conlin says.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=866
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What Do human Rights Commissions and Tribunals Do?
CALGARY, AB, Nov. 29, 2010/ Troy Media/ – Most Canadians take no notice of the sidewalk cuts that allow people in wheelchairs to travel up and down city streets, or that the waitress at their favourite coffee shop is displaying a prominent baby bump.
That’s because, over the last 30 years, disabled accessibility and women’s right to fair treatment while pregnant have become accepted human rights in Canada, thanks to the power of people who sought redress through human rights commissions.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=1843
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