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In this Issue
*How Senator Harkin Wants to Fix the Disability Jobs Crisis
*Bluetooth shoes
*“We Want Access With a Big ‘A’.”
*Pretty Hazards: the Accessible Built Environment
*Kurzweil Educational Systems Launches Firefly App for iPad
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ARTICLES:
How Senator Harkin Wants to Fix the Disability Jobs Crisis
AcNews Note: Any of this article sound familiar here in Canada?
Reform for federal benefits is another one of Harkin’s champion causes. The current income-support systems (like Social Security Income) keep people with disabilities impoverished. Federal income that ranges from $500 to $1,000 a month is “generally insufficient to alleviate poverty,” he writes.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2742
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Bluetooth shoes
MORE than 285m people across the globe suffer from visual impairment. Yet the tools to assist the blind in walking have changed little since the 1920s, when their canes started being painted white to make other pedestrians more aware of their presence. The gizmos that do exist have tended to be expensive and clunky, and have not caught on. This may change if Anirudh Sharma, a 24-year-old computer engineer from Hyderabad, a city in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, has his way.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2738
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“We Want Access With a Big ‘A’.”
Frazee addressed one of the biggest barriers artists, especially those with disabilities, face: a lack of access to funding.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2733
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Pretty Hazards: the Accessible Built Environment
We emphasized the new standards should not wait for a building code update but become law as soon as possible. Now it is a moot point; the completed proposed standard paperwork has been sitting waiting for two years, and in the meanwhile, the building code update is complete without our new accessibility standards. The province gave orders that we were not to discuss retrofitting and of course, with that topic on hold too, an accessible built environment by the year 2025 is not realistic.
Read more at
http://www.aoda.ca/?p=1863
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Kurzweil Educational Systems Launches Firefly App for iPad
Kurzweil 3000 is a text-to-speech based technology solution that enables struggling readers to learn at grade level. Research has shown the program to be particularly appropriate for students with learning disabilities such as dyslexia, those who require reading intervention, students struggling with reading comprehension, and English Language Learners (ELL).
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2731
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In the Spotlight
*CN Tower, La Tour CN 360 Restaurant Accessible Menu
http://www.amenu.ca/360-restaurant/
*Restaurant Owners: Get Listed on Google’s First Page with an Accessible Menu
http://www.amenu.ca/restaurant-owners-get-listed-on-googles-first-page-with-an-accessible-menu/
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EVENTS
*Village of Lakefield Wheelchair Accessible Home
http://www.accessibilityclassifieds.com/?p=1115
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