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In this Issue
*Ontario Businesses Must Now Comply With Ontario’s Customer Service Accessibility Standard
*Ontario disabilities act creates compliance confusion
*Willing to Risk Health in Battle With ODSP
*Staff Told to Move on Audible Traffic Signal Requests
*AODA Alliance’s 2011 Year-End Report Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
*The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
*Proving They Can Do the Job
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ARTICLES:
Ontario Businesses Must Now Comply With Ontario’s Customer Service Accessibility Standard
But One Part of It Creates Barriers and Should be Disregarded
Ontario’s Customer Service Accessibility Standard now applies to, and must be complied with by, Ontario’s private sector. Up until now, only public sector organizations had to comply with it.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1645
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Ontario disabilities act creates compliance confusion
He decided to lose a few tables so customers would have extra space to get through with walkers or wheelchairs. When he saw his customers getting out magnifying glasses to read the menu, he tripled the print size. He also offers his menu online in a format that allows visually impaired customers to access it with a screen reader (www.amenu.ca/?p=988).
“The truth is, if you cater to them and they know you cater to them, they become loyal customers.”
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1638
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Willing to Risk Health in Battle With ODSP
CORNWALL David Thomasson could risk his mental health and hunger in order to prove the Ontario Disability Support Program infringes on his rights.
That’s what Thomasson expects after he told a Social Benefits Tribunal Wednesday that he won’t verify his income in order to keep his ODSP benefits.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/?p=2065
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Staff Told to Move on Audible Traffic Signal Requests
LAMBTON SHORES For the second time in as many months, Lambton Shores staff has been told to investigate and prepare a report on audible traffic lights.
The latest directive comes from the municipality’s accessibility committee which discussed letters from two women with complete vision loss who told of their difficulties crossing two busy intersections served by conventional light signals in Grand Bend.
Read more at
http://www.coaac.ca/?p=589
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AODA Alliance’s 2011 Year-End Report Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
Much of the first half of 2011 was taken up with advocating for the passage of a strong and effective accessibility standard to address the barriers that over 1.5 million Ontarians with disabilities face in the areas of transportation, information and communication, and employment. On February 1, 2011, the McGuinty Government released its final draft of the Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR) that it was considering enacting to address these areas. This regulation had been under development for four years.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1635
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The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
Mark Richert
If you would have told me a decade ago that one day there would be a law requiring virtually all text communication, mobile phone Web browsers, TVs, and broadcast emergency alerts to be fully accessible to people who are blind or visually impaired, I would likely have told you to keep dreaming. But if you also told me that this same legislation would be stronger than any communications law for people with disabilities previously enacted, that it would result in more than 60 hours a week of described video programming, and, amazingly, that it would permanently make up to $10 million per year available to put expensive communications equipment in the hands of people who are deaf-blind, I might have told you that you have a rich, albeit nerdy, fantasy life.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2421
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Proving They Can Do the Job
BMO program lets disabled workers showcase their abilities
Hall said public perception was the biggest obstacle he faced in his job hunt: “It’s the belief by the employer that a suitable and successful candidate can be someone whose physical abilities might be slightly affected or they do things in a different way than we’re used to.”
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2419
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Services include writing and training to support businesses to comply with the AODA.
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Phone (289) 235-9725
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aMENU: Accessible Restaurant Menus.
Visit the site at www.amenu.ca , Restaurant Owners visit www.amenu.ca/presentation/
Most Recent Menus
*Macy’s Diner & Delicatessen
www.amenu.ca/?p=988
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EVENTS
*Faculty of Design Speaker Series: Judith Heumann, Special Advisor for International Disability Rights at the U.S. Department of State
http://www.accessibilityclassifieds.com/?p=1030
*Access Recognition Awards Nomination Deadline
http://www.accessibilityclassifieds.com/?p=1016
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