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In this Issue
*New Accessibility Standards Impact Ontario Restaurants
*AODA Alliance Asks Chief Electoral Officer for Press Report on Internet and Telephone Voting
*Meter Fees to Be Waived for Disabled Drivers
*Technology Helps Hearing Impaired Stay in ‘Loop’
*Federal Judge Issues Permanent Legal Resolution for Blind Law School Graduate Who Paved the Way for Blind Test Takers
*Civil Rights Now: Outside Noise
*Hiring Bias in Canada a Barrier to Success in the Workforce for Canadians with Disabilities
*Citizens With Disabilities Long for Independence
*Volunteer Can’t Access Campus Building
*Edmonton Store Bans Girl’s Service Dog – Twice
*Groups Aim to Alter Attitudes on Workplace Disability: Fit Notes, not Sick Notes?
*Freedom Scientific Releases JAWS 13 Screen Reading Software
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New Accessibility Standards Impact Ontario Restaurants
have a policy on allowing people to use their own assistive devices (e.g. screen reader, cane, wheelchair, oxygen tank) to access your goods and services, your menu for example with regards to a screen reader ( Owners View a presentation www.amenu.ca/presentation
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AODA Alliance Asks Chief Electoral Officer for Press Report on Internet and Telephone Voting
A major priority for us in the new Ontario Legislature is to get Ontario’s elections legislation strengthened to ensure fully accessible elections for voters and candidates with disabilities. We foreshadowed this on the eve of Election Day earlier this month.
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AODA Alliance Asks Chief Electoral Officer for Press Report on Internet and Telephone Voting
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Meter Fees to Be Waived for Disabled Drivers
CAPE MAY — In what the city believes to be a first-of-its-kind ordinance statewide, handicapped drivers will now be exempt from feeding the meters here.
“I thank council for supporting this. It seems like the right thing to do. Common sense has prevailed,” Councilman Jack Wichterman said at the regular council meeting earlier this month.
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Technology Helps Hearing Impaired Stay in ‘Loop’
Advocates for the hearing impaired in Ontario told CBC News they hope the passage of access laws such as Ontario’s Access for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, which comes into force in the new year, will push Canadian organizations to follow suit.
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Federal Judge Issues Permanent Legal Resolution for Blind Law School Graduate Who Paved the Way for Blind Test Takers
On Monday, October 24, the Honorable Judge Charles R. Breyer ended a two-year legal battle between a blind law school graduate and a national testing corporation over the graduate’s right to use a computer equipped with assistive technology to take the California Bar Exam.
Granting Stephanie Enyart’s motion for summary judgment, Judge Breyer found that Ms. Enyart is entitled to take the bar exam on a computer equipped with text-to-speech screen reading and visual screen magnification software, as
the method that will best ensure that she is tested on her aptitude rather than her disability.
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Civil Rights Now: Outside Noise
When Denise Turner called these voters “outside noise” she coldly dismissed the distress of parents who have good reasons to be afraid of what the future has in store for their children with developmental disabilities. The Board of CLBC should fire Denise Turner. To permit her to retain her appointed position would be an endorsement of her contempt for British Columbian voters.
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Hiring Bias in Canada a Barrier to Success in the Workforce for Canadians with Disabilities
Large pool of driven, high-achieving talent being largely ignored by Canadian employers. – Statistics show employees with disabilities often score higher than their co-workers in job performance and job retention. – 16 per cent of Canadians – equivalent to the population of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan – have a disability. – 70 per cent of Canadians with disabilities are unemployed versus 7.1 per cent of the general population. – Best practices demonstrate these biases can be overcome and people with disabilities can make meaningful contributions to corporations’ success.
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Hiring Bias in Canada a Barrier to Success in the Workforce for Canadians with Disabilities
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Citizens With Disabilities Long for Independence
BEIRUT: In recent months, the ministries of health and social affairs have been renewing their calls to implement the disability rights law of 2000, which is designed to improve the lives of those with disabilities.
But a simple trip with Rita Maalouf demonstrates how little of the law has made it off the paper and onto the street.
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Volunteer Can’t Access Campus Building
The University and the AMS have halted the installment of a wheelchair lift due to funding constraints
Louise Bark hasn’t been able to return to her volunteer position at CFRC since April because the radio station’s office in the basement of Carruthers Hall isn’t wheelchair accessible.
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Edmonton Store Bans Girl’s Service Dog – Twice
An Edmonton woman is filing a human rights complaint after her autistic nine-year-old daughter and service dog were told to leave the west-end Winners for the second time in three months.
“I don’t believe that anybody should feel like a second class citizen in any place…and especially as a child,” said Alison Ainsworth.
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Groups Aim to Alter Attitudes on Workplace Disability: Fit Notes, not Sick Notes?
TORONTO – Small organizations in Ontario and British Columbia are trying to change the mindset about health concerns in the workplace, and they’ve been looking to the United States and the United Kingdom for inspiration.
Their starting point of view is that work is healthy for an individual, and prolonged time off work on disability benefits when it’s not necessary can be harmful, says Terry O’Hearn, chair of the Ontario Action Group to Prevent Work Disability.
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Groups Aim to Alter Attitudes on Workplace Disability: Fit Notes, not Sick Notes?
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Freedom Scientific Releases JAWS 13 Screen Reading Software
Freedom Scientific today announced the release of JAWSR for Windows version 13, including Convenient OCR, a feature that performs Optical Character Recognition on text that is displayed as an image, thereby enabling blind
computer users to read items that were previously inaccessible. Examples of
such screens include a PDF file, the setup screen of an application, or the menu of selections on a DVD.
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