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In this Issue
*New Accessibility Amendments to Ontario’s Building Code Overview of Updated Requirements
*AODA Deadline Passes: Is your Restaurant Menu Accessible?
*How Disability Simulations Promote Damaging Stereotypes
*Screen Reader User Survey #5
*2014: Our Top Ten Resolutions
*Accessibility Not A Priority
*While Some Provinces Will Get Text-911 Service in New Year, Others Will Wait Until 2015
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ARTICLES:
New Accessibility Amendments to Ontario’s Building Code Overview of Updated Requirements
On December 27, 2013, Ontario Regulation 368/13 was filed to amend the new 2012 Building Code, O.Reg. 332/12.
The effective date of the amendment is January 1, 2015.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/new-accessibility-amendments-to-ontarios-building-code-overview-of-updated-requirements/
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AODA Deadline Passes: Is your Restaurant Menu Accessible?
Is the Menu on your website Accessible?
What about Menus in your Restaurant, what options do you have for a Blind person who doesn’t read Braille or Large Print?
What do you have to offer upon request or in a timely manner?
Read more at
http://www.amenu.ca/aoda-deadline-passes-is-your-restaurant-menu-accessible/
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How Disability Simulations Promote Damaging Stereotypes
Participants in disability simulations experience their adopted disabilities as a series of discoveries of things they can’t do. They can leave the exercise imagining an unbroken string of those discoveries stretching out for a lifetime. Those of us who have had a disability all our lives haven’t experienced our disabilities that way.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/how-disability-simulations-promote-damaging-stereotypes/
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Screen Reader User Survey #5
The survey will remain open through January 15, 2014. No personally identifying information is collected. When submitted, your browser version, operating system, and JavaScript support will be collected. Results will be reported as aggregated summaries and will be published in early 2014. Your participation is purely voluntary and you can choose to stop at any time. There are 24 brief questions that will take approximately 10 minutes.
Read more at
http://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey5/
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2014: Our Top Ten Resolutions
By Victor Schwartzman
2013 is already being flushed away by 2014. The past year’s disappointments are swirling down the drain and into the sewage treatment plant of time. To sum up 2013, it made one potty.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/2014-our-top-ten-resolutions/http://www.aoda.ca/2014-our-top-ten-resolutions/
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Accessibility Not A Priority
by Willy Noiles
The Ontario government celebrated the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities by doing what the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act Alliance (AODA Alliance) hoped they wouldn’t: simply offer more platitudes and lofty rhetoric (of which some was inaccurate or overblown). With the AODA Alliance having already demonstrated earlier this fall how little the government has done to implement its own 2005 accessibility legislation this year, Dec. 3 should’ve been a time to finally announce new standards and a plan to enforce existing standards, but instead all it really did was name a couple people to a committee it had promised a year ago would be developing new standards.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/accessibility-not-a-priority/
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While Some Provinces Will Get Text-911 Service in New Year, Others Will Wait Until 2015
Text-based 911 service will become available for deaf Canadians in some parts of the country in 2014. Other parts of Canada, however, may have to wait until 2015.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/while-some-provinces-will-get-text-911-service-in-new-year-others-will-wait-until-2015/
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