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- Employment Data Confirm Upward Trend for People With Disabilities
- Self-Harm Visits to Emergency Room (ER) a Greater Problem in Waterloo Region Than Across Province
- Accessibility News November 20, 2010 Update
- Children with autism in Ontario face an uphill battle when seeking provincially funded treatment, reports Pauline Tam
- Mall cop tries to eject boy’s service dog
- AODA Alliance Calls on Elections Ontario to Provide Internet and Telephone Voting and More Than One Accessible Voting Machine Per Riding in the October 2011 Ontario Election
- Diane Finley Responsible for Disability Has Inaccessible Office
- Private Member’s Bill Aims to Better Protect Service Animals and Police Dogs
- AODA Alliance Asks McGuinty Government to Report on its Efforts on Unkept 2007 Election Promises
- Full ccessibility in Kerr Hall ‘Just Impossible’
- Regina Mom Pushes for Accessible Playground
- In Their Own Voices
- Your PDF’s are like Rolls of Toilet Paper!
- Accessibility Woes
- Join Our Call for Strong New Accessibility Standards – and Distribute Our New Leaflet!
- Accessibility News November 27th, 2010 Update
- Accessibility Barriers Result In Feeling of Isolation
- Accessibility Committee Recommends Upgrades
- Blind Woman Wins Case Against Federal Government
- Penn State Discriminates Against Blind Students and Faculty
- Digital Inclusion: First British Standard to Promote Web Accessibility Globally
- Basic Income Proposal Could Eliminate Poverty for People With Disabilities
- Ontario to Launch Welfare Review
- Will the McGuinty Government Restore as a Full-Time Position the Vital Post of Assistant Deputy Minister of Government Services for Accessibility?
- UN Enable – International Day of Persons with Disabilities – 3 December 2010
- OFL Statement for International Day of Persons With Disabilities (December 3, 2010)
- Court Rules That Federal Inaccessible Government Websites Violate the Constitutional Rights of Blind Canadians –Strong Reason for McGuinty Government to Substantially Strengthen its Weak Proposed Information and Communication Accessibility Standard
- What a Screen Reader Is Not!
- Accessibility News December 4,2010 Update
- Becoming Accessible
- Advances in Mobile Technology Provide the Blind With New Tools
- What Do human Rights Commissions and Tribunals Do?
- Rights and Wrongs
- Acces to Information: A Critical Human Right
- Cornell: Sites Will Be Upgraded for Disabled
- “Take Charge” of Your Travel This Holiday Season
- Report Recommends Upgrading Transit System for the Disabled
- Dummies’ Guide to Web Accessibility for Disabled People
- Disabilities Call for Papers
- Disabled Need Access, Not More Promises
- Quebec Short On English Sign-Language Translators
- Meeting the Needs of Special Needs Students Virtually
- About-Face on Plans to Scale Back Oshawa’s Accessibility Committee
- DOJ Posts Online Editions of its 2010 ADA Standards
- Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes
- Impact to Be FarReaching
- Accessibility News December 11,2010 Update
- Transit Barriers to Toronto and Back
- Phone for the Hard of Hearing
- Raise Welfare Rates Before Review: Advocate
- Ontario Lawyers to Represent Injured Vets for Free
- $25M for Autism ‘Raises a Lot of Questions’
- My Proposed Dec. 16 ADA Regulatory Hearing Testimony
- Reveal Human Rights Review Findings: Mother
- Human Rights Success: Disabling a System of Discrimination
- New Coalition Calls for Completely Accessible Broadcasting System
- The Sound of Accommodation: Do You Hear What I Hear?
- CI Recognized for Web Site Accessibility for the Blind
- Watchdog’s Request Reasonable: Reader
- Customer Service Standard Not Worth the Paper It’s Printed On
- Accessibility News December 18,2010 Update
- The Process of Civic Engagement
- Woman Gets Electric Wheelchair OK
- BMO Survey: Canadians With Disabilities Not Taking Advantage of RDSPs
- Disabled Nortel Employees Face a Bleak Future
- No Human Rights Enforcement for Transit?
- Disability Rights Activist Still Waiting For a Fully Accessible Transit System
- Stuck on the Road
- BSI Accessibility Documentary Endorsed on United Nations Website
- Chirping Crosswalk Changes Its Tune; Safety Matters
- Workshops for Disabled ‘Antiquated,’ Says Advocate
- Car Sound Bill Approved
- Accessibility News December 25,2010 Update
- Group Opposes Contact Limits
- Autistic Adults Being Left Behind: Parents
- Emotional Abuse of Workers vs. Those Who are Disabled
- How Learning Disabled Can Make College a Reality
- Ontario Mental Health System Faces Overhaul
- Equal Access Delayed is Equal Access Denied!
- Accessibility News January 1,2011 Update
- Far-Sighted Policy for Visually Impaired
- Local Businesses Confused By Customer Service Legislation
- National Post Editorial Board: Yet More Proof That Veterans Deserve Better
- Nortel Employees Seek Legal Clarity Around Health and Welfare Trust
- President Signs Pedestrian Safety Enhancement Act
- Few Meet Web Accessibility Standards for Users With Special Needs
- Making a Difference by Thrusting Accessibility into the Public Sphere
- EU adopts the UN convention on the rights of persons with disabilities
- Accessibility Committee Celebrates Victories
- Seeking a Few Good Ideas
- Canadian Government Helping Fund Improved Visitor Access
- CRTASA Announces Launch of New Working Animal Health Insurance Plan for Service and Therapy Animals in Canada and the USA!
- Supreme Court May Be Last Hope for Disabled Nortel Employees
- Charity Abused Disability Tax Credit Program: CRA
- The Bus Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; Disabled Passengers Turned Away From Stops They’ve Used for Years
- Government to Appeal Ruling Over Website Access for Blind
- BRIEF TO: The Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission(CRTC)
- Voting Process Meets Accessibility Standards
- Jurisdiction of Canadian Transportation Agency Affirmed – International Law Office
- Province’s Refusal to Fund Needed Drug Appalling
- Burnaby Set to Introduce New Vibrating Signals for Pedestrian Crossings
- Federal Government Pokes the Blind and Visually Impaired in the Eye!
- Accessibility News January 15,2011 Update
- Huntsville to Host 2012 Ontario ParaSport Winter Games
- Federal Appeals Court Upholds Blind Woman’s Right to Use Technology to Take Professional Examinations
- Eadie Seeking $45K for Staff
- Blind Outraged Over Government Appeal of Access Decision
- Lack of Mental Health Services Leave Advocate Dismayed
- Jenkins Aim to Bring Sled Hockey to SoCal
- Accessible pedestrian signals: Reasonable or Ridiculous?
- The Price of Poverty and Pain
- Province Heading for Autism Showdown: MacDonald
- Council Refuses to Add Position
- Community Input Wanted to Help Make Sault Barrier Free
- Transit Cuts to Impact the Disabled
- Show of Support
- Disabled Less Likely to Use Web: study
- ACB Web Accessibility comments for Department of Justice (DOJ) ANPRM
- Accessibility News January 22,2011 Update
- Service Dog Denial Leads to Charges for Eatery
- Cell Phones Utilizing Sign Language Increase Communication Between Deaf Friends and Family
- The Politics of Blindness: From Charity to Parity
- Get R-E-A-L: A Manifesto for Blind Citizens
- Ottawa Parents Appeal to Premier After U.S. Facility Refuses to Treat Mentally Ill Daughter
- New Technologies Bring Accessibility to Canadian School
- Rowland Discusses Online Access
- Transit for the Physically Challenged Moves Ahead
- Town Asked to Reconsider Accessible Transportation Booking
- People with Disabilities ‘Huge Untapped Pool of Labour’
- Why Does Disabled Son Have So Many Fewer Choices in Life?
- Blind Man to Take to the Road at Daytona International Speedway
- The Blind Have Rights, the Right to Unemployment, Unequal Access and Poverty
- Accessibility News January 29,2011 Update
- Cuts Threaten Bus Service to Toronto’s Deaf-Blind Community
- Blind Man Drives Car Independently
- Advocate Says Province Underfunding DeafBlind
- AODA Alliance Update: 2011 Priorities in Our Accessibility Campaign
- OCAD University to offer Master of Design in Inclusive Design Graduate Program in Digital Futures
- National Federation of the Blind Announces Agreement with Travelocity
- McGuinty Government Makes Public New Draft Regulation to Address Barriers in Transportation, Information, Communications and Employment – We have 45 Days to Give the Government Feedback
- Paving the Way for Disabled Travellers
- Three More Committee Members Resign
- Accessibility Carries Price Tag
- There’s No Need To Fear the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
- Accessibility News February 5,2011 Update
- Legal Setback for Election Do-Over
- I-Voting Breaking Down Accessibility Barriers at Next NSW State Election
- Canadian Registry of Therapy Animals and Service Animals (CRTASA) Petition
- The McGuinty Watch
- Deaf Lawyer Nominated by Green Party in Upcoming Ontario Election
- Survey and Open House to Investigate the Installation of Audible Pedestrian Signals
- Cobourg Wheels Users Will Have Weekend Access
- Disability tax credit claims probed
- Sexuality of the Disabled Often Overlooked
- Leal Calls for Update of Ontario Assistive Devices Program
- Accessibility News February 12,2011 Update
- Federal Court Finds City of Los Angeles Discriminates Against People With Disabilities in Emergency Plans
- More Benefits, Not Rules: Activists
- Councillors Debate Subsidizing Bus Passes for Disabled
- Thousands of Vets Missing Out on Better Disability Benefits
- Avoid the Stigma of the Word ‘Blind’
- Call for Submissions: 2011/12 EnAbling Change Partnership Program, The Accessibility Directorate of Ontario
- Access Watch Dog Launches New Website to Hold Local Politicians Accountable
- Human Rights Commission Warns Municipalities AND Municipal Transit Authorities to Ensure That All New Buses are Accessible, Despite Anything Less in McGuinty Government’s Proposed Accessibility Standard
- Class Action Lawsuit Against Disney Alleges Inaccessible Websites and Failure to Accommodate Blind Persons in Violation of ADA; Case No. 10-cv-5810
- Blind Need Access to the Best Training
- Accessibility News February 19,2011 Update
- Tips on How to Make WordPress Admin More Accessible to Screen Readers
- Pay $1,800 a Day or Get Out: Hospital
- Mental Health the Final Frontier in Diversity
- Parking Punishes Handicapped
- Training Resource for Small Businesses and Organizations
- Call for a National Accessibility Action Plan to Meet Obligations to People With Disabilities
- Ontario Government Turning a Blind Eye and a Deaf Ear to the DeafBlind
- Patients With Special Needs at Risk for Poor Oral Care
- Procrastination Not Good for Compliance
- Accessibility News February 26,2011 Update
- Sick Welfare Recipients to Have Harder Time Accessing Diet Allowance
- Inaccessibility of Missouri Town’s Dinner Train Violates ADA, Advocates Say
- Achilles Canada and OBSA Partner for “Shared Vision” Project
- Former student alleges abuse at W. Ross MacDonald School
- Halton Told to Fix Special-Needs Backlog
- New Act Knocks Down Barriers
- Computers catching up to Captcha
- Participants of Epilepsy Action Day at Queen’s Park Address Issues Facing Ontario’s Epilepsy Community
- AODA Alliance: Send Us Your Feedback on Our Draft Brief on the McGuinty Government’s Draft Integrated Accessibility Regulation
- Accessibility Must Happen
- Some Businesses Could Become More Accessible
- Mobile Accessibility: Code Factory Goes Android!
- Accessibility News March 5,2011 Update
- McGuinty ‘Kicks the Crutch Out’
- Canadian Veteran Faces a New Battle
- OPSEU Calls on the McGuinty Government to “Walk the Talk on Mental Health”
- Accessibility Hot Topic at School Review Meeting
- Accessibility for the Disabled
- Eadie Issues Ultimatum
- The Blind Man Who Taught Himself To See
- Author Wants Traditional Services for the Blind Abolished
- House of Commons Approves Changes Proposed by the Minister of Veterans Affairs to the New Veterans Charter
- Accessibility News March 12,2011 Update
- 761-Unit Second Phase of Mason Homes Subdivision OK’d
- AODA: Common Misconceptions About Proposed Accessible Built Environment Standard
- City Won’t Install ‘Disability’ Traffic Signs
- Accessibility is Opportunity for All
- Fiorito: Ontario About to Cut Services for Deaf-Blind
- (4201) Governor’s Plan is Detrimental to Blind and Deaf Students
- Adoption of Google Apps Program Discriminates Against the Blind
- Direct Access: Extend Reduced TTC Fares to People With Disabilities, Group Urges
- Please Tell the McGuinty Government if You Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on the Draft Integrated Accessibility Regulation
- Talking Traffic Signals Coming Soon
- Accessibility News March 19,2011 Update
- Critique Illuminates Issues of the Blind Community
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Blasts Government’s Draft Accessibility Regulation as Raising Serious Problems Under the Human Rights Code
- Unstoppable Elio: Blizzard
- You’re Not Really Disabled
- Few Businesses Accessible, Survey Finds
- Backward Step in Human Rights
- Disability Policy Fails Student
- Mental-Health Issues in Canadian Prisons at All-Time High: Expert
- Mental Health Issues at Root of Most Youth Crime, Conference Told
- Accessibility News March 26,2011 Update
- Council Web Accessibility ‘Should Be Built Into Procurement’
- Federal Candidates Challenged to Run Accessible Campaigns
- Levelling the Playing field
- New ADA Regulations are Now in Effect
- Parents, Workers Lament Lack of Funding for Developmentally Handicapped
- City Violated Rights of Disabled Ex-Aide
- Comic Vision Sets Sight on a Cure
- Book’s Criticism of CNIB Appears Justified
- City of Kawartha Lakes Thumbs Its Nose at the AODA!
- Accessibility News April 2,2011 Update
- Book Aims to Erase Stigma of Mental Illness
- Home Care in Bad Shape: Report
- Ontario Postsecondary Students with Disabilities Face Unique Challenges
- Direct Access: Funding Inclusion is Money Well Spent
- AODA Alliance: Help Us Respond to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s and the Public Transit Sector’s Efforts to Weaken the Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR) and to Delay its Enactment
- Seniors Speak Out on OC Transpo Route Cuts
- Canada, Labour and Employment, The Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities Act, 2005: Preparing Your Organization For Compliance – McCarthy Tétrault
- OCAD U Sees an Accessible Future with New Master Program in Inclusive Design
- The Province Won’t Interfere with Collective Bargaining, Eh?
- Disabled Diver Wants Others to Give it a Try
- Accessibility Action Plan for the 2011 Provincial General Election
- What Online Businesses Need to Know About the ADA
- Make Sure the Polling Station for You in the October 2011 Election is Accessible to Voters with Disabilities
- Accessibility News April 9,2011 Update
- Mom, 92, Shoulders Caregiver Burden
- Elderly and Disabled Speak Out on Bus Route Changes
- CNIB Cut Volunteer Services
- 40 Amazing iPad Apps for the Learning Disabled
- Different Strokes
- Montgomery County Discriminates Against Blind Employee
- Accessibility News April 16,2011 Update
- Playing Hardball with Fired Worker Expensive Error
- Ontario Judge Rules Mentally Ill Can Be Held in Jails
- Lots of Rhetoric, But Little Action
- Improving Accessibility Isn’t Hard – UNB
- Over 400 adults in Lambton County Without Supports and Services
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing Launches EyeNote™App to Help the Blind and Visually Impaired Denominate US Currency
- City of Ottawa Advisory Committees Exist for Citizen Engagement (So Use Them!)
- Will the McGuinty Government Fully Implement the Recommendations of the Government-Appointed Charles Beer Independent Review of the AODA?
- Will the McGuinty Government Keep Its Election Promise of Effective Enforcement for the AODA?
- Accessibility News April 23,2011 Update
- Quebec’s Psychologists in Crisis
- National Federation of the Blind and Law School Admissions Council Agree to Settlement
- Stigma and Challenges Continue for Mental Health Care
- National Federation of the Blind Announces Agreement with Ticketmaster
- AODA and the Relationship with the Ontario Human Rights Code
- Disabled Community Absent From Party Platforms, Agendas
- AODA Alliance Update: Three Quick Ways You Can Help Promote Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Henderson: It’s Time to Make Polls Fully Accessible
- Accessibility News April 30,2011 Update
- Break the Circle in 2011
- Will Disabilities Law See Light of Day?
- Speaker’s Corner: A Mental-Health Lawyer’s Wake-Up Call to the Profession
- Is Your Polling Station at Today’s Federal Election Accessible – If Not, Make Sure Elections Ontario Doesn’t Use the Same Site for Voting in the October 2011 Ontario Election
- City Unveils New Accessible Gym Equipment
- IE9 and Firefox 4: let the standards showdown begin!
- WordQ: Powerful Software Giving Those Who Struggle With Literacy a Passport to the Digital World
- At AODA Alliance’s Request, Elections Ontario Extends Deadline to June 3, 2011 to Give Feedback on Accessibility of Proposed October 2011 Election’s Polling Station Locations
- Agency Issues Decision on City of Ottawa Request for the Agency to Modify its Order That OC Transpo Bus Operators Call Out Stops
- Youth Mental Health Campaign Targets Provincial Government
- Legislation Will Enforce Disability-Friendly Service
- Accessibility News May 7,2011 Update
- Accessibility Standards Prioritize Safety
- A Work of (Accessible) Art: Brockville Arts Centre
- Crisis in Care for People With Developmental Disabilities in Guelph Wellington
- Disabled People Take Anti-Cuts Protest to the Courts
- No Room for Disabled in Ottawa Valley Group Homes
- Air Canada Turns Away Man with Severe Peanut Allergy
- Bell’s $10-Million Donation Hailed as Mental-Health Game-Changer
- The City of Hamilton Offers Disabled Golfers a Chance to Play With Unique Cart
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s May 19, 2011 Public Forum on Barriers to Accessibility in Public Transit
- Can Consumers Trust Website Accessibility Declarations?
- Accessibility News May 14,2011 Update
- Sarnia City Council and Mayor Distance Themselves From Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s Call for the Proposed Provincial Accessibility Regulation to be Weakened – Get Your Municipality to do the Same!
- Questionnaire Universal Kitchen Design
- Ashley Smith Trapped in Vicious Cycle Before Death, Inquest Told
- Emergency Department Visited Often By Adults With Intellectual Disabilities
- OC Transpo Formalizes its Accessible Customer Service Policy
- Young Woman Faces Insurance Hoops Due to Father With Huntington’s
- Federal Government Not Complying with Web Site Accessibility Requirements, Study Indicates
- Accessibility News May 21,2011 Update
- Penalized for Working? Disabled Lose 50 Cents on Every Dollar Earned
- Parents Demand Better Care Than Institutions Can Provide for Vulnerable
- Pursuing Equal Rights
- Ease the Path to Work
- Let’s Give the Blind Better Access to Online Learning
- New Program for Mentally Ill Teens Will Help Them With Transition to Adulthood
- Autistic Children Use iPad at Toronto School to Reach Out and Communicate
- Losing Hope
- A Setback for Disability Rights
- National Federation of the Blind Commends Department of Education for New Accessible Technology Guidelines
- AODA: Inappropriate Words Can Bite – the Customer Service Standard
- Good Jobs a Lifeline for People With Mental Illness
- Advocate for Accessible Transportation Wants CBRM to Implement Transit Subsidy
- Decade-Long Battle Over York Street Steps Settled
- PRESS RELEASE RE: United Way Funding Cuts – Citizen Advocacy Closes Everyday Champions Program to New Applicants with Disabilities
- Unequal Access to Mental Health and Addictions Services Threatens Ontarians
- City Staff Awarded for Lending a Hand
- Accessibility Advocate Calls for ‘Barrier Buster’ Actions at Guelph Conference
- Taxi Driver Refuses to Pick Up Blind Man
- MCGuinty Government to Make Public the Finalized Enacted Integrated Accessibility Regulation this Friday
- What Frustrates Screen Reader Users on the Web: A Study of 100 Blind Users
- The Integrated Accessibility Standards (IAS) are Now Law!
- Accessibility News June 4,2011 Update
- Applying Web Usability Criteria for Vision-Impaired Users: Does It Really Improve Task Performance?
- Upgrades Will Make Brock University Easier to Navigate
- Hardest Hit March Brings Disabled People Out on to the Streets
- Toronto Transit Commission to Adopt Presto Smart Card – BUT Will TTC and the City of Toronto Ensure Ontario Makes it Barrier-Free Before Implementing it?
- Manitoba Creates Mental Health Court
- Henderson: No Justice for the Intellectually Disabled
- Loss of Full-Serve Stations Hurts Seniors, Disabled: Council
- McGuinty Government Dodges our Request that Presto Smart Card Not be Installed at TTC Until Fully Accessible – but AODA Alliance Presses Again for a Clear Commitment
- For Love of Shame or Fame-CNIB I Factor Critique
- Disabled: On the Horns of an Election Dilemma
- New Integrated Standards Posted to AODA Site
- Accessibility News June 11,2011 Update
- Equality Still Eludes People With Disabilities: Advocate
- My Thoughts of Tim Hudak and the Ontario PC Parties Changebook
- Campbellford’s Downtown Can Be Tough Going for Disabled
- Citizen Advocacy Adds New Program
- Direction Provided to Air Canada to Accommodate Travellers Disabled by Peanut or Nut Allergies
- Change to Better Living
- 9th Annual Accessibility Workshop Update
- Accessibility News June 18,2011 Update
- Barriers to Improving the Accessibility Game Plan
- New World Report Shows More Than 1 Billion People With Disabilities Face Substantial Barriers in Their Daily Lives
- Canadian Wireless Providers Scoff at Accessible Hand Set Requirements
- 10 Reasons Why It Is Difficult for Person with Dyslexia to Spell Correctly
- Ontario Business Faces Accessibility Laws
- Ryanair ‘Worst for Web Accessibility’
- Greater Political, Public Focus Needed on Poverty
- housing That Works for Everyone
- New Program Will Give a “Thumbs Up”
- Accessibility News June 25,2011 Update
- What’s in a Name?
- Complying with the Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR): Captioning and Describing Web Videos
- Government Cancels Fund to Accommodate Ontario Public Servants With Disabilities in the Workplace – But Restores it When AODA Alliance Challenges its Cancellation
- Together, Let’s Get People Back to Work!
- Media Release: Crisis in Care for People With Developmental Disabilities in Hamilton
- Federal Government Website Accessibility – Still a Long Way to Go
- Blind Students Sue Florida State University for Discrimination
- AODA Alliance Makes Presentation to Standing Committee of Manitoba Legislature on Need for Strong Accessibility Legislation
- Digital Agenda: EDF and Partners Launch New Campaign
- Accessibility Lessons Ontario Can Learn From the West
- To Meet Accessibility Standards, Windsor to Close 40 Playgrounds
- Accessibility News July 2,2011 Update
- Pirates of the Accommodation
- Wait for e-Books Unfair, Student Says
- Major Victory for Ontarians with Disabilities – McGuinty Government Enshrines Accessibility Requirements in its New 10-Year Infrastructure Plan
- Top 5 Web Accessibility Pitfalls
- The Real Life of British Columbians With Disabilities
- When Will a Built Environment Accessibility Standard be Enacted?
- Thumbs Up Program: Helpful or Misleading?
- Accessibility News July 9,2011 Update
- Laurier Bike Lanes Form Disability Barrier
- Officials Scramble to Keep Computers for Deaf and Blind
- U.S. Weighs Rule Requiring Hybrids, EV Cars to Sound Pedestrian Alerts
- Commissioner Calls for Reform
- Goar: Ontario Takes a Backward Step on Mental Health
- Sticking Up for Her Son
- What is the Future for Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario?
- Cops Want Mental Health Supports Improved
- Accessibility News July 16,2011 Update
- System Failed Mentally Ill Teen
- Keep Enhanced Caregiver Tax Credits in Mind
- Sault Transit to Conduct Review of City’s Parabus Service
- Accessibility Rules for New Builds Only
- Myths About Low Vision
- Interest Grows in ‘Virtual’ Schools
- Respectable Record Marred by Embellishment
- AODA Alliance Writes Three Political Parties to Request 2011 Election Commitments
- Psychiatric Survivors Continue to Fight Against the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Draft Report Calls for Reduction of Suicide Stigma
- 2010-2011 Annual Report celebrates 50 years of OHRC
- Disabled and Reduced Mobility Airport Guide
- DOJ Delays Web Accessibility Regulations
- Enabling Accessibility Fund
- Accessibility News July 23,2011 Update
- Prospects Brighten For Copyright Exception Treaty
- Flash Mob Project Creates Awareness of Environmental Sensitivities
- The Accessibility Lesson Which My Co-Workers and I Learned During Dinner
- Mental Health Courts Guide Offenders to Treatment, Not a Jail Cell
- AODA: Why Do I Have to Notify the Public When There is a Disruption of Services?
- National Federation of the Blind Supports Blind Machinist in Employment Discrimination Suit Against Railroad
- Accessibility News July 30,2011 Update
- Safety Warnings a Phone Call Away
- Why are the Disabled Ignored When Development Decisions are Made?
- Accessibility Barrier at Whitby Building Traps Disabled Man
- Ontario’s Mental Health Patients Not Getting Follow-Up Care They Need: Study
- Court Rules in Favor of JetBlue – Airline Websites and Kiosks Not Covered by State Law
- Henderson: Rallying Support for Psychiatric Patients
- Accessibility News August 6,2011 Update
- Everyone Deserves Access to Opportunities
- OPSEU Welcomes Delay in PPAO Divestment to CMHA
- Hundreds Gather to Remember Charlie
- LCO Releases Draft Framework for the Law as it Affects Older Adults
- OverLay – a New App making accessible information easy to make and share
- Station Schedule Off Track: Patron
- Debating the Facts
- Accessibility News August 13,2011 Update
- Reservation System a Concern for Cobourg Wheels Services User
- New Bus Standards Help Those With Disabilities
- Boy ‘Not Disabled Enough’ to Receive Tax Credit
- Disabled Senior Left Without Wheelchair Funding
- Inclusivity Requires A Paradigm Shift
- Handicap Parking Rules Frustrate Residents
- Accessible Technology Increasingly a Requirement for Businesses
- Elections Canada Lobbies for Test of Online Voting
- Labour Leader Joins Injured Workers for Sit In
- Some Voters Will Cast Ballot at Home
- Accessibility News August 20,2011 Update
- Manitoba Law Discriminatory
- Why Does Society Hate the Blind so Much?
- Blind Woman Refused Apartment Over Guide Dog
- The AODA and the Integrated Accessibility Standards
- AODA administrative Monetary Penalties Scheme – Three Strikes You’re Out!
- New Accessibility Standards Affecting Employment Now In Force
- Accessibility News August 27,2011 Update
- Government of Canada New Standard on Web Accessibility Released
- Food or Dental Care: a Grim Choice for the City’s Poor
- For an Independent Review of Ontario’s Human Rights Enforcement Ssystem, the McGuinty Government Appoints a Bill 107 Supporter, Who Publicly Opposed the AODA Alliance’s Position on Human Rights Enforcement
- Toronto Police Handcuffed Mentally Challenged Boy After ‘Uncontrollable’ Behaviour
- Festival Leads Way With Accessibility for Patrons
- Fiorito: Disabling Effect of Ontario Disability Benefits
- Disability Coalition Unveils Major Political Parties’ Election Pledges to over 1.5 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, at Queen’s Park News Conference
- AODA Alliance Holds Queen’s Park News Conference on Eeve of Election Campaign to Unveil the Political Parties’ Platforms on Disability Accessibility
- Accessibility News September 3,2011 Update
- Deaf Feel Burned by Tenant Discrimination: Advocates
- Law Commission of Ontario Releases Consultation Paper on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- ‘Accordion’ Buses Hit the Road
- Essex County: Accessibility Workshop Registration Information
- Denied: Province Cuts Off Muscular Dystrophy Sufferer From a Special Diet Allowance
- If You Lived at Rideau Regional Centre or Are a Family Member of Someone Who Did, a Lawsuit May Affect Your Rights
- Accessibility News September 10,2011 Update
- Make mental health treatment an issue
- Enabling Behaviour
- CNN.COM Sued by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing for Lack of Captioning Videos on Its Website
- AODA Alliance Urges PC Leader Tim Hudak to Commit to Strengthen, and Not Weaken Efforts to Make Ontario Fully Accessible to Over 1.5 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Esso Worker Bars Blind Athlete; Medal-Winning Rower Ordered from Gas Bar Because of Her Dog
- Blind Woman Can’t Hitch a Ride with DARTS, Can’t Get to Work
- Physically Disabled Residents Ask City and Businesses to Consider Mobility Needs
- After Injury, a Job Can Be Vital Medicine
- Eye-Tracking Technology Could Benefit Disabled Children
- Just a Little of Your Time Helps Our Non-Partisan Election Campaign for a Fully Accessible Ontario for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility News September 17,2011 Update
- City of Kawartha Lakes Uses AODA as Defense Against Disabled
- DOT Seeks Websites and Kiosks Accessible to Disabled
- Use Options for Accessible Voting for Voters With Disabilities in This Ontario Election
- Toronto Star Reports That Conservatives Promise to Cut at Least 30% of Ontario Regulations – Are New Accessibility Regulations on That Large Chopping Block?
- PC Candidate Agrees to Urge Tim Hudak to Make Accessibility Commitments – And Other Media Election Coverage of Disability Accessibility Issues
- Tories Silent on Accessibility Improvements for Disabled
- Province, Developmental Service Employers in Durham Region Must Rethink Options to Stabilize Supports and Avoid Service Disruptions
- Hit Them With the Statistics
- Accessibility News September 24,2011 Update
- Justice Department Reaches Americans with Disabilities Act Settlement with Wells Fargo
- Wheelchair Users Can’t Always Roll Onto the Rocket
- Local School Doesn’t Meet Accessibility Requirements for Election
- Disturbing Silence From Hudak on Accessibility
- Human Rights Cases Settled as Transit Providers Offer More Accessible Services
- AODA: Who Let the Dogs Out? Saying ‘Yes’ to All Service Animals
- National Federation of the Blind Condemns Lack of Access to New Kindle Fire
- Tim Hudak Says He is Committed to Fulfilling Provisions of the Disabilities Act, But Still Hasn’t Clearly Promised Not to Slash Regulations Enacted Under It
- Accessibility News October 1,2011 Update
- On Live TV, AODA Alliance Chair Asks PC Leader Tim Hudak for Disability Accessibility Election Commitment
- Fully Accessible Voting Not Yet A Reality in Ontario- A Priority for Our Next Legislature – and Listen to AODA Alliance Chair’s Interview on CFRB Radio
- U.S. Representatives Stearns and Bishop Introduce Fair Wages for Workers with Disabilities Act
- aUntargeted and Untapped, are the Disabled a Winning Labour Source for the Supply Chain Sector?
- Internet Voting in Advance Polls a Great Success in Markham, Report Finds
- Put the AODA Customer Service Feedback Process to Work!
- AODA Alliance: What We Accomplished in Our Successful 2011 Election Campaign for Accessibility
- Accessibility News October 8,2011 Update
- Another Fiasco at the Voting Polls
- Disadvantaged Pay a High Price
- National Federation of the Blind and Penn State Resolve Accessibility Complaint
- Ralph Nader Calls For Stronger Actions to Ensure Equal Opportunity in Sports for All Americans
- Mental Health Advocates Find Police Training Inadequate
- Governments Ignore “Blindingly Obvious” Needs of Disabled Citizens
- Accessibility News October 15,2011 Update
- The Six D’s
- new Accessibility App for Disabled Travelers
- Order hear: Culver’s Adds More Accessible Restaurant Drive-Thrus
- A Wait on Wait Times
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- Civil Rights Now: Outside Noise
- Federal Judge Issues Permanent Legal Resolution for Blind Law School Graduate Who Paved the Way for Blind Test Takers
- Technology Helps Hearing Impaired Stay in ‘Loop’
- Meter Fees to Be Waived for Disabled Drivers
- AODA Alliance Asks Chief Electoral Officer for Press Report on Internet and Telephone Voting
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- Taco Bell Awaits Sanctions in Accessibility Suit
- Law Grad’s Discrimination Claim Denied Once Again
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- PS Can’t Find Enough Disabled Staff: Watchdog; Recruitment Rate Has Declined for Three Years
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- AODA Alliance Writes New Minister Responsible for the AODA to List Key Accessibility Priorities
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- Macy’s Diner Leads the Way in Restaurant Menu Accessibility
- Accessibility News November 5,2011 Update
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- Blind Canadians Question Government’s Motives in Appealing Landmark Internet Access Case
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- The Accessible Campus in California: An Example for the Nation;
- Roseman: Are Your Disability Benefits at Risk?
- ADULTS COUNT! A Survey on Youth and Adults with ASDs in Ontario
- Accessibility is a Global Mandate
- Please Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Request of the Human Rights Tribunal, Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Legal Support Centre to Disclose Details on Enforcement of Human Rights in Ontario
- NonProfits and The Act
- Concerns Grow Over Accessible Taxi Service
- COAAC Updates
- AODA Alliance Calls on Independent Review of Ontario’s Human Rights Enforcement to Hold Open,ACcessible Public Hearings
- Accessibility News November 19,2011 Update
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- Ontario: Macy’s Diner Leads the Way in Restaurant Menu Accessibility
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- Emergency Preparedness: New AODA Rules for Persons With Disabilities
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- Canadian Government Web 2.0 Guidelines Criticized
- ‘Church is for Everybody’
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- Accessibility News December 3,2011 Update
- Better Service for Disabled Key Goal of New Policy
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- To Mark International Day for People With Disabilities, AODA Alliance Identifies Major Actions Needed by Key Ontario Cabinet Ministers to Advance Ontario Towards Full Accessibility
- The Demonisation of the Disabled is a Chilling Sign of the Times
- Business Accessibility Needs Common Sense Approach
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- US Labor Department Seeks to Improve Job Opportunities for Americans With Disabilities by Setting Historic Hiring Goal for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors
- Accessibility News December 10,2011 Update
- The Smartphone Revolution: Accessible To All
- Air Canada to Face Class Action Suit from Obese
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- National Federation of the Blind Urges Swift Action on Recommendations for Accessible Higher Education Materials
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- Attention AODA Organizations: Actions to Complete by January 1, 2012
- Accessibility News December 17,2011 Update
- B.C. Program Offers Independence to People With Intellectual Disabilities
- An Inaccessible Website: Don’t Just Suck it Up
- Tip Sheet: Helping Employees With Disabilities Stay Safe
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- Microsoft Commits to Improving NZ Accessibility
- Transit Tough for the ‘Invisible Disabled’
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- Accessibility News December 24,2011 Update
- Falling through the cracks
- Judge: NYC Taxi Agency Must Help Disabled Riders
- Guess Who Funds Biggest Project Ever to House the Homeless? Stephen Harper
- Progress’ in Ontario’s Assistive Device Program (ADP)
- Deaf Man Fights DND Over Lost Job
- Accessibility News December 31,2011 Update
- Proving They Can Do the Job
- The Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act
- AODA Alliance’s 2011 Year-End Report – Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
- Staff Told to Move on Audible Traffic Signal Requests
- Willing to Risk Health in Battle With ODSP
- Ontario disabilities act creates compliance confusion
- Ontario Businesses Must Now Comply With Ontario’s Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Accessibility News January 7,2012 Update
- Ontario Insurers Leave Catastrophically Injured at Risk
- Lawyers Donate Expertise to Sick Kids Families
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- Students with ADHD Have Legal Right to Supports in School
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- Advocating for InvisAbilities
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- New Research Report on Tourism, Travel, and Hospitality for People With Hearing Loss
- Accessibility News January 14,2012 Update
- South African Chain Reaches Out to Visually Impaired With ‘Braille Burgers’
- Government of Canada Supports Accessibility for Canadians with Disabilities in Ontario
- AODA: Accessible Transportation Compliance Schedule
- Redbox Discriminates Against the Blind By Failing to Provide Accessible Self-Service Kiosks
- Disabled Man’s Death After Arrest Cannot Be Ignored, Advocates Say
- Disabilities Report Author is Concerned that Many Kids Have 1 or No Friends
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- Human Rights Tribunal to Examine City Restrictions on Group Homes
- Accessibility News January 21,2012 Update
- Plan to Change Autism Definition Has Some Worried
- Mom at Wit’s End
- AODA Alliance Urges Pinto Human Rights Review to Give the Public More Time to Give Input Into Ontario’s Human Rights System
- Disabled Children Get Left Out
- Is the Government Complying With Its New Standard on Web Accessibility?
- George Pearson Centre Is a Zombie
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- Canada Still Has a Way to Go in Ending Barriers for Disabled People: Advocates
- Accessibility News January 28,2012 Update
- Disability Tourism Needs a Boost
- UK Sight-Loss Charity Sues BMI
- Roundabouts a Threat to the Blind, Council Told
- Just-Released Human Rights Legal Support Centre 2009-2010 Annual Report Documents That the Centre Warned McGuinty Government it Couldn’t Provide Appropriate Level of Service From 2008-2010
- Accommodating Bipolar Disorder in the Workplace, Part I: Disclosure and Stigma
- Accessibility News February 4,2012 Update
- White Canes are a Vital Aid for Visually Impaired
- Shocking Discrimination Case Needs Sorting Out”
- Woman says parents deserve apology from federal agency
- Deaf Man Cleared of G20 Charges
- Facebook Takes a Toll on Your Mental Health
- StatsCan Accused of Not Accommodating Blind Man
- More Problems With Pinto Human Rights Review
- Families of Disabled Adults Angry After $300K Program Cut
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- Accessibility News February 11,2012 Update
- People are Last at George Pearson Centre
- Windows 8 adds Help for Visually Impaired, Physically Challenged
- Toronto Police Need to Improve the Way They Deal With Mentally Ill People
- How Might We Design an Accessible Election Experience for Everyone?
- CRTC Tests 911 Texting for Hearing and Speech Impaired
- Accessibility News February 18,2012 Update
- Visually-impaired Never Lose Sight of Their Goals
- Human Rights Review Bypasses Thunder Bay
- Deaf Community Puts Hope in New Phone Technology
- City not compliant on transit access
- ‘We Need Each Other’
- BrailleTouch App to Help Visually Impaired Send Text Messages
- Cut Frustrate Disabled
- Accessibility News February 25,2012 Update
- Saskatchewan to Close One of Last Remaining Institutions for Mentally Disabled
- See No Evil? Definitely Not Without Audio Description
- App Will Help Blind, Visually Impaired Navigate Streets
- YouTube Makes Captioning More Accessible for Deaf Viewers
- Please Tell the Pinto Human Rights Review if You Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Final March 1, 2012 Brief on the Enforcement of Human Rights in Ontario
- Queen’s Park accused of complicating human rights complaints
- Students are Challenged to Make Ontario More Accessible for the Disabled
- McDonald’s Corp. Sued For Discrimination Against Blind Customers Using Guide Dogs
- Accessibility News March 3,2012 Update
- APEALING FOR FUNDS: Leaders look for help
- Physicians and Hospitals Must Make Websites More Patient-Friendly, Study Says
- Disability Act Could Ease Budget Cuts, Says Diversity Officer
- Markey Introduces Legislation to Improve Prescription Drug Labeling for the Blind
- 2012 Customer Service Accessibility Report – Questions
- ACCESSIBILITY ACT: A Binding Legislation is the Only Effective Option
- Presentation from the Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians to the Legislative Committee considering Bill C11
- Toronto Police Settle G20 Human Rights Case Against Paraplegic Man
- Rights Tribunal Orders Ottawa Fire Department to Pay Disabled Retiree Six-Figure Settlement
- AODA Alliance: Two quick ways you can help our accessibility campaign
- Accessibility News March 10,2012 Update
- Breakdance Class is One Way Image of Disabled is Being Changed in Canada
- High-tech Braille Devices are Touching the Lives of Blind Canadians
- NetCents Systems Ltd Signs Letter of Intent with World Accessibility
- Addiction Experts Warn Against Online Gambling, Casinos
- Social Media for People with Disability Still Not Fully Accessible
- Accessibility News March 17,2012 Update
- Bringing Russia to the Disabled
- Pinto Human Rights Code Review Restores Cancelled Thunder Bay Public Hearings After AODA Alliance Gets CBC to Cover its Earlier Cancellation
- TD Bank Group Scholarship Helps Fix Inequality in Graduate Education for People With Disabilities
- Green Shield Canada Donates $20,000 to Adult Transition Program for Youth with Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus
- “Nice City to Visit…Just Don’t Expect to Take a Shower!” – PUSH Northwest
- Feds Look To Boost Web Accessibility
- LCO Releases Draft Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- Austerity Mania Threatens Ontario’s Poor and Disabled
- Accessibility News March 24,2012 Update
- Ontario Disability Employment Network Press Release
- McGuinty Freezes Social Assistance Level, Scales Back Child Benefit Gain
- Do Social Networks Make Us Sick?
- Open Letter: Ontario Budget 2012
- Mental Health Help Line Expands Across Northeast
- Seeing Opportunities for the Visually Impaired
- Bits and Pieces of Important News on the Campaign for a Fully-Accessible Ontario
- Enhancing Accessibility in Post-Secondary Education (PSE) Institutions: A Guide for Disability Service Providers
- Accessibility News March 31,2012 Update
- Judge: CNN Must Face Lawsuit From Deaf Group
- The Miracle of Technology
- The Fast Food Menu And A Restaurant’s Duty To A Legally Blind Patron Under The ADA
- Not Myself Today: Every Canadian Encouraged to Pledge Support and Map their Mood this April
- Denial of Service: Issues with Digital Accessibility
- Councils Still Struggling With Website Accessibility
- How is Our Campaign for a Fully Accessible Ontario Going?
- Accessibility News April 7,2012 Update
- Who Will Give Devin a Chance?
- Making Businesses Accessible to All has its Obstacles
- Mobile Lorm Glove Helps Deaf-Blind People Text Message
- City Transit Expected to be Totally Accessible by Year-End
- Disabled Feds Want to be Involved in Making IT More Accessible
- Minister of National Defence Announces Enhancements to Benefits Offered to our Ill and Injured
- For Those with Intellectual Disabilities, a Decades-Long Wait for a Home and Care
- Taxi of Tomorrow Faces Lawsuits of the Day After
- Playground Designed for Disabled Users
- Burlington City Council Approves Accessibility Design Standards
- AODA Alliance Submits a Supplemental Brief to the Pinto Human Rights Code Review
- Accessibility News April 14,2012 Update
- Disable the Label Helping Depressed Students
- Legacy of Local Musician Jeff Healey to Play On in Accessible Park
- Employing Disabled Key: Onley
- Disabled Artists Unite To Create A Moving, Canadian Art Story
- 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS COMPLETE WITH A GUARANTEE OF EQUALITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- Accessibility News April 21,2012 Update
- Web Accessibility Myths – A Call for Accessibility Advocates to be More Business-Minded
- Addressing Poverty a Big Issue, Quality of Life Survey Finds
- Andrew Pinto Refuses to Read the AODA Alliance’s Supplemental Brief to the Pinto Human Rights Code Review
- New Low-Cost Handheld Device Offers Independence for Millions of Visually Impaired Americans
- GLAD vs CNN Closed-Captions Lawsuit: Finding a Win-Win for Broadcasters and Deaf People
- Paying For a Taxi in New York Just Became More Accessible
- Canadian Technology Improving the Lives of the Mentally Challenged
- Parents Wire Kids to Prove Teachers’ Verbal Abuse
- Accessibility News April 28,2012 Update
- Students of Brantford School for the Blind Launch Abuse Claim
- Manitobans Voters with Disabilities Need Gagriel Dumonte, Instead they Have Ed Grimley
- Screen Reader User Survey
- Thoughts on a Society of Accessibility Professionals
- Cuts Shut Down Mental Health Monitoring and Key Resource for Suicide Prevention for Canadian Forces
- What Plans Does THE McGuinty GOVERNMENT Have for Keeping Its 2011 Election ACCESSIBILITY Promises?
- Accessibility News May 5,2012 Update
- Aging Population Increases Personal Care Role
- This is No Job for Police, Deputy Chief Says
- RIM Launches BlackBerry Screen Reader for Customers with Visual Impairments
- The Catch-22 of Group ome Bylaws
- Canadian Gov’t Inaction on Mental Health Hurts Economy, Families: Report
- App gives voice to people with disabilities
- Changes to Delivery of Services for Developmentally Disabled Have Advocates Vexed
- New Event Promotes Accessibility: For People With Disabilities, the Internet Offers a World of Challenges
- Mentally Ill Female Prisoners Treated Cruelly, Inhumanly, Report Finds
- New Toronto Star On-line Guest Column Co-Written by AODA Alliance Chair Identifies Barriers to Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario
- Accessibility News May 12,2012 Update
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- AODA Alliance Calls on Elections Ontario to Provide Telephone and Internet Voting in Upcoming Kitchener-Waterloo By-Election
- “We’ve Been Betrayed”
- Woman Says She Was Humiliated at Centre in the Square
- Ontario Students Face Long Waits for Mental Health help, Warns New Report
- Manitoba Human Rights Commission Speaks Up! So Do We! How About You?
- Would You Hire This Man?
- Accessibility News May 19,2012 Update
- He’s Right – We Should Be Ashamed
- ‘Crazy’ Dave Won’t Give Up Fight
- Walgreens Expands Disability Employment Effort Nationwide
- UC Students Design a Better Pill Bottle for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Elections Ontario Categorically Refuses to Deploy Telephone and Internet Voting in Any By-election IN 2012
- Website Audits: Is the CNIB Robbing You Blind?
- Accessibility News May 26,2012 Update
- MobilityPLUS Users to Get More Vans, Fare Choices
- Paralyzed to the Extent You Learn Your Assistive Technology
- Dyslexic Man, Learning-Disabled Wife Charged for Not Filing Census Form
- County of Brant Discriminates Against People with Disabilities
- Will Manitoba Pass Disability Accessibility Legislation That is Strong and Effective?
- Government of Canada Accepts Federal Court Decision on Long-Term Disability Benefits for Veterans
- Cyber Accessibility is the New Frontier for ADA Lawsuits
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- Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results
- Toronto Woman Wins Second Victory Ordering Government Websites Accessible to Blind
- Federal Court of Appeal Reaffirms That Inaccessible Federal Government Websites Violate the Constitutional Rights of Blind Canadians
- Accessibility News June 2,2012 Update
- Treatment Wait Times in ‘Depression Capital’ Have Now Grown to one Year
- Blind People Need Publicly Funded Rehabilitation
- AODA Alliance Presses Two Cabinet Ministers on Plans to Finalize the Overdue Built Environment Accessibility Standard That the McGuinty Government Last August Promised to Enact “Promptly”
- CN Tower: 360 the Restaurant Elevates Its Menu Above the Rest
- Take Part in an Ontario Government Survey of Impact of Accessibility Standards Enacted Under the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act
- Accessibility Kawartha Lakes Hosts Inaccessible Luncheon!
- County of Brant Reverses Decision to Discriminate Against People with Disabilities
- Muskoka Looking to Brand Itself as an Accessible Tourist Destination
- Accessibility News June 9,2012 Update
- The Canadian Transportation Agency Launches a New Resource Tool for the Carriage of Mobility Aids
- Legal Uncertainties Hamper Technology Access by Disabled People
- Government intervenes to allow British Police Officer Peter Threlfall Into Country
- Alberta Man with Service Dog Says He was Told to Leave McDonald’s
- Restaurant Owners: Get Listed on Google’s First Page with an Accessible Menu
- I Have No Rights??
- Severely Disabled Toronto Man Has Rich Life Thanks to Home Care
- Accessibility News June 16,2012 Update
- Specialized Transportation Service and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- New Device to Translate Sign Language into Audible Words
- discrimination, Assault and battery Because a Veteran Who is Disabled Uses a Service Dog
- Why Website Accessibility Matters
- Government Websites: Where Is The Canadian Human Rights Commission?
- Government of Canada Launches Call for Proposals to Support People With Disabilities
- An Obese Father’s Loss of His Children Should Alarm Us All
- Accessibility News June 23,2012 Update
- County Continues to Upgrade its Facilities
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- Federal District Court in Massachusetts First in Country to Hold that the Americans with Disabilities Act Applies to Website-Only Businesses
- Learning Disabled Role is World First for Academia
- What is the Latest Word on Progress That the Ontario Government has Made Towards Implementing the AODA, Across the Board and in the Area of Information Technology?
- Accessibility News June 30,2012 Update
- HIMS Introduces the First High-Definition Handheld Video Magnifier for Low Vision Customers
- The Mobile Accessibility Landscape
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- Wolbert: Jobs About More Than Money to Disabled
- The Benefits of User Testing with Disabled Users
- Accessibility News July 7,2012 Update
- AODA Alliance Launches Campaign to Get McGuinty Government to Develop Three New Accessibility Standards to Address Barriers Impeding Persons With Disabilities (PWD) in Access to Education, to Health Care and to Residential Housing
- Keeping Up the Pressure
- Federal Mental Health Portal Fails Web Standards
- Ontario’s Trillium Benefit: A New Way to Help the Poor
- Help Simplify the GST/HST Exemption for Low Vision and Blindness Aids
- Six Reasons Why Hiring Disabled Good for Business
- Accessibility News July 14,2012 Update
- Kurzweil Educational Systems Launches Firefly App for iPad
- Pretty Hazards: the Accessible Built Environment
- “We Want Access With a Big ‘A’.”
- Bluetooth shoes
- How Senator Harkin Wants to Fix the Disability Jobs Crisis
- Accessibility News July 21,2012 Update
- Barriers to Equality Persist in Ontario
- TIGAR Project Accelerates Book Accessibility for People With Print Disabilities
- Seniors Face Ageism Stigma; Age an Obstacle to Finding Jobs
- My Life Simplified via Accessible Web and Apps!
- The Toll of Mental Illness
- Wheelchair Users Pay More for Taxis
- Initiative to Revise the Excise Tax Act for Goods for the Blind and Visually Impaired
- Accessibility News July 28,2012 Update
- Ontario Turns Down Simple, Affordable Way to Help Mentally Ill
- How Effective is the Integrated Accessibility Standard, Part IV – Transportation? Not so Much!
- Government of Canada Initiatives Help Canadians With Disabilities Find Jobs
- Hiring Those With Disabilities Easier Than You Think:Tim Hortons Franchise Owner
- Disability Report Demonstrates Great Strides in Hiring People with Disabilities
- Disabled Face Tech Hurdles
- Petition for the HST/GST Exemption
- Accessibility News August 4,2012 Update
- Bad Attitudes Do Not Cause Disability Any More Than Good Attitudes Guarantee Health
- Human Rights Tribunal Dismisses Disabled Man’s Bid to Have Town Pay for Snow Removal
- Ticket Agent Layoffs Worry Passengers With Special Needs
- Mobile Device Helps Teach Academics, Life Skills to Disabled Child
- Accessibility News August 11,2012 Update
- Landmark Decision: Voter POLLING Sites Must Be Accessible for People With Disabilities on Election Day
- Elections BC Considers Online Voting
- McGuinty Government Belatedly Releases Guide to Implementing the Integrated Accessibility Standard for Accessible Transportation, Employment and Information and Communication but Needs to Properly and Widely Publicize It!
- MyVoice Breaks Barriers for People With Speech Disabilities By Announcing Wheelchair-Friendly TalkRocket Go App at Pittsburgh’s ISAAC Conference
- County of Brant Fails Budget 101: Accessible Non-Affordable Transportation for People with Disabilities
- Design of Public Spaces in the Built Environment Draft Standards
- McGuinty Government Posts a Draft Partial Built Environment Accessibility Standard to Address Barriers in Public Spaces, Not Inside Buildings
- Accessibility News August 18,2012 Update
- School for Blind Leads the Way in Distance Learning
- County of Brant: Integrated Accessibility Standards for Transportation or “Who’s on First?”
- A Participant in the Rapidly Expanding 21st Century
- Web TV Needs to Have Captions Starting Next Month, the FCC Rules
- CHRC Report Shows Significant Gaps in Equality of Opportunity for People With Disabilities in Canada
- Group Pushes for Wheelchair Access to Patios
- Please Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in Two September 6, 2012 Ontario By-Elections
- Accessibility News August 25,2012 Update
- Will Ontario’s Two September 6 2012 By-Elections Be Fully Accessible to All Voters With Disabilities?
- Apps Begin to Give Blind Access to Touch Screens
- Lost in Transition
- Report Says Ontario is Canada’s Worst Province in Social Indicators and Services
- McGuinty Government Proposes to Amend its 2011 Integrated Accessibility Regulation Without Following Important AODA Requirements for Amending Accessibility Standards
- Newly Installed Hearing Aid Compatible Technology Makes Museum Visit More Enjoyable
- Accessibility News September 1,2012 Update
- Justice Department Settles with Sacramento, Calif., Public Library Authority Over Inaccessible “E-Reader” Devices
- Games Jobsworth Bars Ex-Minister Blunkett from Paralympic Opening Ceremony Because of His Guide Dog
- Helping One Another Through King’s Accessibility Committee
- AODA Alliance Releases a Report Card on the McGuinty Government Record at Keeping Its Twelve 2011 Election Promises on Disability Accessibility
- Air Canada Says No Room for Boy’s Wheelchair
- Accessibility News September 8,2012 Update
- Accommodations a Priority During Frosh Week
- Petition to Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- Group Home Location Bylaws Pit Ontario Cities Against Human Rights Watchdog
- EU Failing Blind People on ‘E-Inclusion’ Access to Information
- Call For Proposals For Enabling Accessibility Fund
- New Integrated Accessibility Standard Regulation(IASR) Guide
- Recommendations for New Manitoba Legislation to Remove Barriers Faced by People With Disabilities
- 5 Reasons Businesses Should Take Web Accessibility Seriously
- Elections Ontario Declines Our Proposals to MAKE Ontario’s Two September 6, 2012 By-Elections Fully Accessible to Voters With Disabilities
- Accessibility News September 15,2012 Update
- OHRC Releases Consultation Report on Human Rights, Mental Health and Addictions
- Making Video Gaming Accessible to All: guidelines to Help Game Developers Meet the Needs of the 20% of Gamers Who Have Disabilities
- Tech Accessibility Makes Strides for Deaf, Blind Students
- Send Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief to the McGuinty Government on Its August 15, 2012 Draft Accessibility Regulation to Address Barriers in the Built Environment of Public Spaces
- Health-Care Providers Openly Discriminate Against the Mentally Ill
- Accessibility News September 22,2012 Update
- Severely Autistic Teen Could Become Homeless
- An Education Campaign About Courtesy/Priority Seating Signs on Transportation Vehicles
- Regal Entertainment Group Makes Moviegoing Accessible to All with Advanced Technology from Sony
- More Students With Disabilities Eligible for $20,000 Scholarship
- Doctors Fight Scope of Inquest Into Prison Death of Teenager Ashley Smith
- Mom Says School Officials Discouraged Son’s Use of Sign Language
- Accessibility News September 29,2012 Update
- More Than Half of Small Businesses Never Hired Disabled Employee: Poll
- Better Access to Mental Health Services Needed: Study
- National Federation of the Blind Takes On E-Text Pilots
- Let the McGuinty Government Know if You Support the AODA Alliance’s October 4 2012 Final BRIEF on ITS Draft Public SPACES Accessibility Regulation
- Accessibility After The Cart
- Human Rights Chief Will Fight Hamilton at the OMB
- Accessibility News October 6,2012 Update
- How the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Deals With Officers’ PTSD
- Accessibility Remains An Issue
- Impact of Mental Illness Greater Than Cancer, Infectious Diseases: Report
- Toronto Wheelchair Users Can’t Count on City’s Cabs
- Cohn: How Dalton McGuinty Can Undo the Welfare Legacy of Mike Harris
- City hall accessibility problems
- Municipalities Urged to Eliminate Barriers to Housing Services
- BMO Study: Canadians Believe People with Disabilities Are Victims of Hiring Bias
- Accessibility News October 13,2012 Update
- Advocates Have Sought Bumpy Tiles for About 20 Years
- Blind Activist Offers Vision of Hope for Victims of Bullying
- Court Hands Huge Victory to Universities’ Digitization Efforts
- New Campaign to Get McGuinty Government to Strengthen Enforcement of the AODA
- New Priority and Courtesy Seating on Milton Transit
- Human Rights Victory for St. Catharines Worker
- Accessibility News October 20,2012 Update
- ‘Standing up for the silent
- Netflix to Caption All Videos by 2014
- Special Olympian Responds to Ann Coulter’s “Retard” Remark with Heartfelt Letter
- A Promising New Approach to Welfare
- Customer Service Standards Compliance Report Due by December 31, 2012
- Just Four Days Until Launch of Our “Dial Dalton” Campaign to Improve Enforcement of the AODA
- Enforcing AODA: The Big Purple Elephant in the Room
- AODA Enforcement: Where is it?
- Accessibility News October 27,2012 Update
- Today We Begin Our Dial Dalton Campaign! Please Call the Premier’s Office to Ask How Premier McGuinty Plans to Keep His 14-Year-Old Promise to Effectively Enforce the Disibilities Act
- Guelph Woman Helps Deaf in the Philippines
- Welcome to the AO Do Da Do Da Day
- New Approach to Welfare Recommended
- Shocking Ashley Smith Video Revealed; Inquest Sees Footage of Inmate Shackled, Injected Against Her Will
- AODA Alliance Makes Public an Open Letter to All Candidates for Leadership of Ontario’s Liberal Party, Seeking Commitments on Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities
- Disabled From Abroad Share Their Stories
- Recruitment Begins for Committee to Review the Customer Service Standard
- Accessibility News November 3,2012 Update
- Community Event Accessibility Questioned
- McGuinty Government Takes Steps to Streamline Process for Developing New Accessibility Standards Under the AODA
- Hamilton Woman’s Teeth At Stake in Council Decision
- Chance to raise awareness and promote inclusiveness
- UPDATED: Handi-Van Fares Going Down
- North Vancouver School District Discriminated Against Dyslexic Boy, Supreme Court Rules
- Accessibility News November 10,2012 Update
- Autistic Children Need Action Now From Ontario
- Survey: Role of Service/Pet Dogs: People With Disabilities (PWD)
- Advocates for the Blind Argue for More Accommodation at Airport Check-In Kiosks
- Bat-Inspired Tech Lets Blind Man Ride Mountain Bike
- Site Check: New Durham Region Transit Website Not Accessible Despite Claims
- Read AODA ALLIANCE’S Analysis of the November 2012 Final Report of the Andrew Pinto Human Rights Code Review
- Accessibility News November 17,2012 Update
- Governments of Canada and Ontario Celebrate New Affordable Housing in Dunnville
- Overcoming Barriers: Dating, Sex Can Be Daunting for Youth With Disabilities
- County of Brant: We Have Support from the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario to Eliminate para transit
- National Disabilities Bill to be Tabled in Parliament Soon
- The Canadian Transportation Agency Launches New Resource Tools for Accessible Transportation Complaints
- Accessibility Directorate of Ontario Abandons People with Disabilities in the County of Brant
- Restaurant Riles Stouffville Couple Denied Entry
- Accessibility News November 24,2012 Update
- Government of Canada Helps People With Disabilities in the Brantford Area Develop Job Skills
- Web Accessibility: The Australian National Transition Strategy
- Sandra Pupatello is First Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Make Commitments on Making Ontario Fully Accessible to Over 1.7 Million Ontarians With Disabilities
- Systemic Discrimination Toward People with Disabilities in the County of Brant
- W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 Approved as ISO/IEC International Standard
- Accessibility News December 1,2012 Update
- Kathleen Wynne is Second Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Make Disability Accessibility Commitments
- Recognizing Technology Accessibility on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- European Commission Wants Single Set Of Website Accessibility Rules To Apply To Government Sites By 2015
- Ontarians With Disabilities Hit the Hardest by Government Cuts: OFL Statement for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 2012
- “If an Ontario Human Rights Complaint is filed, we will stop providing Para transit” County of Brant
- Parents Defend Private Schools for Learning Disabled
- City Says No More Free Transit for Blind, Disabled
- Hamilton Council Decision Highlights the Need for Clearer Standards Language
- Justice Denied for People With Disabilities
- Disabled Passengers Experience Discrimination On Public Transport
- Elections Ontario’s Progress Towards Deploying Telephone and Internet Voting is Still Slow
- Accessibility News December 8,2012 Update
- Law Commission of Ontario Releases Final Report and Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- Resignation from County of Brant AAC Over Systemic Discrimination/Para Transit Scheme
- Blind Hamiltonians Fight for the Right to Keep Their Bus Passes
- Brother Battles to Keep Group Homes Open
- Is theTeachers Strike Impacting You Due to Disability?
- Ghotit Releases Its Dyslexia Writing Assistant Application, the Ghotit Real Writer Pro
- Hamilton Turns an “Oops” into a HUGE Mess!
- Accessibility News December 15,2012 Update
- County of Brant “Celebrates” International Human Rights Day with Resignation of Two More Members of the Accessibility Advisory Committee
- Govt Not Complying With Its Own Web Standards
- AODA: 2013 Compliance, Happy New Year!
- A clear EU accessibility law proposed? At what cost?
- Improving Accessibility Can Close Digital Divide
- Accessibility News December 22,2012 Update
- New AODA Accessibility Standards – Design of Public Spaces in the Built Environment
- New Corporate Index Being Developed for People with Disabilities in the Workplace
- Braille Comes Unbound From the Book: How Technology Can Stop a Literary Crisis
- Taking Proactive Steps to Comply With the AODA is a Smart Business Move
- All Taxis of Tomorrow Must Serve Disabled: Liu
- The Difference Customer Service Training Makes
- Accessibility News December 29,2012 Update
- City to Kick Off Five-Year Accessibility Plan
- As More Disabled Sue and Protest, Politicians Draw Line on Accessibility
- Public Consultation on Building Code Accessibility Requirements
- TD Scholarship Levels the Playing Field for Graduate Students With Disabilities Studying Rehabilitation Research
- Ontario Accessibility Standards: What Comes After the December 31, 2012 Reporting Deadline?
- Accessibility News January 5,2013 Update
- Accessible Learning for Students With Disabilities
- Eric Hoskins and Gerrard Kennedy are the Third and Fourth Liberal Party Leadership Candidates to Make Disability Accessibility Pledges
- Scandic Hotels Wins Major Procurement Contract in Norway
- U.S. Proposes Minimum Sounds for ‘Quiet Cars’
- Goar: Ontarians With Mental Disabilities Lost in Legal System
- Deaf Woman’s eBay Complaint Highlights Dispute Over Web Access for Disabled
- Blind Man Dragged by TTC Bus After Door Closes on His Cane
- County of Brant Setting Legal Precedence by Continuing to Defy Integrated Accessibility Standards
- Accessibility News January 12,2013 Update
- People with Disabilities get Support from Former County of Brant Councellor in Specialized Transportation Service Struggle
- Working Groups Address Accessibility Issues
- Ontario PC Government Would Merge Welfare and Disability Programs
- Nebraska Doctor Develops Smartphone App for Parents of Autistic Children
- Charles Sousa is Fifth Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Candidate to Make Disability Accessibility Commitments
- All Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidates Have Now Made Disability Accessibility Pledges
- New Accessibility Standards in Effect
- Accessibility News January 19,2013 Update
- Agony Behind Bars
- Government Response to Recommendations of the Accessibility Advisory Council for a Made-in-Manitoba Accessibility Act
- McGuinty Government Commits That Revamped Accessibility Council Will Develop New Accessibility Standards Under the Disabilities Act- but No Commitments on Which New Standards or by When
- Shining a Light on Disabilities in the Workforce
- Nortel Reaches Settlement With US Long-Term Disabled Workers
- Ontario Employers Have a New Tool to Improve Accessibility for People With Disabilities
- McWynnety Government Update, Month 10: Where’s the Enforcement?
- Disabled Canadians Form Significant and Untapped Labour Pool
- Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan Makes Landmark Public Declaration That Public Money Should Never Be Used to Create or Perpetuate Barriers Against People With Disabilities
- Does the New Accessibility Coordinator for the County of Brant have a Conflict of Interest?
- Accessibility News January 26,2013 Update
- AODA Alliance Issues News Release on Ontario Premier-Designate Kathleen Wynne’s Important Commitments to Ontarians With Disabilities
- Air Carrier Access Act – Web Accessibility Requirements
- Older people with sight loss face major disadvantages not being online
- Blind Pedestrians Hail ‘Good First Step’ on Traffic
- 911 Staff Will Text Message With Deaf Canadians
- Yoda on AODA: “Hmmm. The more AODA faith have you greater the disappointment shall you see”
- Employment Equity Laws Ensure Workplace Fairness
- Accessibility News February 2,2013 Update
- Research Report on Ontario’s Youth and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Released Today
- iPhones Help Blind Navigate a Sightless World
- Why are People with Disabilities Treated with dignity and Respect in Brantford but not the County of Brant?
- New smartphone app helps people with vision disabilities take notes on iOS devices
- Bionic Eye Gives Hope to the Blind
- Hearing Aid Prices Much Higher Than Their Actual Cost
- Jesters Court, Pub & Eatery Isn’t Clowning Around When it Comes to Accessibility
- Ontario Funding for Intensive Autism Therapy Flatlining
- University of York student develops 3D crossword puzzles for gamers with vision disabilities
- HHS enforces equal access for deaf and hard of hearing individuals in New York and DC
- County of Brant “Inaccessibility in Motion” Scheme: Everything old is new again!
- Ontario Government Enacts New Accessibility Regulations Setting Standards for Accessibility of Public Spaces
- Accessibility News February 16,2013 Update
- Autism’s New Frontiers PART 2: ‘The bridge to nowhere’
- Wynne Government’s First Throne Speech Signals Potential Revitalized Approach to Accessibility for People With Disabilities
- Council Approves Mississauga’s 10th Annual Accessibility Plan
- B.C. Plans to Slash Funding for Adults With Disabilities
- Samsung Struggles to Block iPhone Function for the Blind
- Design of Public Spaces Standards (Accessibility Standards for the Built Environment) Now on AODA.ca
- Accessibility News February 23,2013 Update
- OPM Issues Final Rule to Simplify Schedule A, Hiring Authority for Persons With Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Writes Dr. Eric Hoskins, Ontario’s New Minister Responsible for Implementing and Enforcing the Disabilities Act, to Urge Prompt and Decisive Action
- New Yorkers with Disabilities Neglected In City’s Emergency Planning
- Mentally Ill are Unlikely to Re-offend; So Why is Canada Toughening Rules for Them, Researcher Asks
- Low Vision and Motor Disability Surveys February 12, 2013
- Is the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Discriminating Against the Disabled?
- The Old Hat Guide To iPhone Accessibility
- Families Fear Ontario Funding Changes Leave Disabled Youths With Uncertain Future
- Regrets, I’ve Received a Few
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Kathleen Wynne to Propose 9 Priority Actions to Help Get Ontario Back on Schedule for Becoming Fully Accessible to People With Disabilities on or Before 2025
- Premier Wynne Makes Unexpected Phone Call to AODA Alliance Chair; and – Canada’s Parliament Invites AODA Alliance to Present to March 7, 2013 Federal Standing Committee Hearings on Employment for Canadians with Disabilities
- NHTSA Proposes Rules for Automakers to Add Sound to Hybrids, EVs
- Accessibility News March 9,2013 Update
- Sign Language App Makes G+ Hangouts More Accessible for Hearing Impaired
- Making the Web Accessible to People With Disabilities is the Right Thing to Do
- OHRC Submission to the MMAH on Proposed Changes to the Ontario Building Code
- Community Engagement Questionnaire
- Disability Equity: The Cheerleader Rushes the Net
- Welfare reform plan scares ontarians with disabilities: Goar
- Accessibility News March 16,2013 Update
- Hamilton City Council Discusses Fare Parity for People With Disabilities
- Online Consultation for a Disability Inclusive Development Agenda Towards 2015 and Beyond
- Building Capacity the Wrong Way.
- Deaf, Blind Sue Over Web Shopping
- Robot Sensing and Smartphones Help Blind Navigate
- People With Disabilities ‘Excluded’ from Web Services
- Accessibility News March 23,2013 Update
- The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Is Even Worse Than You Think
- Fast Food Fury: Hearing Loss & the Drive-Thru
- Canadian Judgments Need Style
- Toronto’s Lack of Wheelchair-Accessible Taxis Could be ‘Embarrassing’ for Pan Am Games
- CRTC InvitesComments on the Potential for a Video Relay Service for Canadians Who are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Speech Impaired
- Living With Disability
- New Code of Practice to Increase Accessibility of Non-NAS Air Terminals
- City Lags Behind Other Durham Municipalities in Parking Requirements
- Accessibility News March 30,2013 Update
- What Demographic Will Make the Biggest Change in Accessibility and Disability Employment
- Website Accessibility and the ADA: An Update
- Smartphone App Turns iPhone Into a Hearing Aid
- Transit for Disabled Riders Could Cost Millions
- Fedora Outlier LLC Blazes a Trail in Communicating with the Blind Community Using Social Media
- Accelerated Reader Student App Update Gives Visually Impaired Students Quiz-taking Independence
- Government Announces $4.5 Million a Year Opportunities Program
- Accessibility News April 6,2013 Update
- Remembering Former Ontario Labour Minister Dr. Robert Elgie, a Hero to Ontarians With Disabilities Who Spearheaded Amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code to Make it ILLEGAL TO Discriminate Based on a Person’s Disability
- Federal Judge Rules New Yorkers with Disabilities can Challenge Taxi of Tomorrow in Lawsuit Seeking Accessible Taxis
- Texthelp Releases iReadWrite – iPad App for Struggling Readers and Writers
- Enforcing the IASR Transportation Standards: Where do we go for help?
- Ten Reasons to Caption your Web Videos:
- Accessibility News April 13,2013 Update
- Outback Steakhouse to Pay $65,000 to Settle EEOC Disability Discrimination Lawsuit
- Please Tell the Wynne Government if You Support Our New Brief on Proposed Accessibility Reforms to the Ontario Building Code
- Documentary: Disability Activist Fights for Right to Manage His Own Care
- Press Release: Fedora Outlier LLC Launches The Old Hat Guide to iPhone Accessibility
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commissions May 9 2013 Accessible Transit Public Forum to Let TTC Know About Ongoing Public Transit Barriers
- Toronto Cab Companies Agree to Stop Illegal Extra Charges for Wheelchair Passengers
- Blind taxpayers sue H&R Block over web site accessibility
- Accessibility News April 20,2013 Update
- Dim or Brighter Prospects for Welfare Reform?: Fiorito
- Spring Rolls Apologizes for Treatment of Hearing-Impaired Man with Service Dog
- EEOC Sues Wal-Mart for Sexual Harassment, Retaliation and Disability Discrimination
- Lift People With Disabilities Out of Poverty, Says OPSEU Members at ODSP Lobby
- Canada: AODA’s Workplace Emergency Response Information Requirements Already In Force: Are You In Compliance?
- Toronto Restaurant Incident with Hearing Ear Dog Shows Need for the Ontario Government to Keep Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Removing Barriers Goal of New Legislation
- Accessibility News April 27,2013 Update
- Computer Game Could Improve Sight of Visually Impaired Children
- Exhausted’ Parents Leave Autistic Son at Government Office
- Amazon Adds New Features For Blind And Visually Impaired Users To Kindle For iOS App, Coming To Other Platforms Soon
- Harper Government Reaffirms Commitment to Persons with Disabilities
- Fedora Celebrates the Kindle App with a Giveaway
- AODA Alliance: How Does The May 2 2013 Ontario Budget Look When Viewed Through A Disability Accessibility Lens?
- Accessibility News May 4,2013 Update
- Government Not Enforcing Disabilities Act, Says Advocate
- AODA Alliance Update: Windsor Star Reports Raise More Concerns about the Need for Effective Enforcement of Accessible Customer Service for Ontarians with Disabilities
- LCO Asked by Ontario Government to Undertake New Project to Make Registered Disability Savings Plans More Accessible
- True Accessibility is All About Attitude
- City Seeks Increased Accessibility
- More Media Coverage Of Barriers To Accessible Customer Service For People With Disabilities Around Ontario — It’s Time for Effective Action by the Ontario Government
- Accessibility News May 11,2013 Update
- Ontario Government Responds to AODA Criticism!
- County of Brant Seeks Comments on “Subsidized Transportation Program!” April Fool’s Day in May
- AODA and Small Business: Severe Penalties for Lack of Accessibility for the Disabled
- Australian Smartphone App Proloquo2Go Helps Give Children With Speech Difficulties a Voice
- Government of Canada Supports Full Participation of People With Disabilities
- Accessibility News May 18,2013 Update
- Vets Say Military Should Support Use of Service Dogs for PTSD
- Ontario Government Announces Bold New Move Towards AODA Transparency!
- Preparing for “Round 2 ” of the AODA: The Integrated Accessibility Standards
- Frustrated by Fake Service Dogs
- Waterloo Pulls Six Years of Public Documents From Website
- Wynne Government is Required to Appoint an Independent Review of the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Within the Next Seven Days
- Accessibility News May 25,2013 Update
- Ontario Government: AODA Implementation Delayed Due To Sexism
- Act Now! Support Accessible Formats for People with Print Disabilities
- Minister Hoskins’ First Major Speech on Disability Accessibility in the Ontario Legislature and Responses in Question Period – Some News is Encouraging and Some is Not
- AODA Compliance Update: January 1, 2014 Requirements
- Canada’s Disability Savings Fund Called a ‘Fiasco’
- New VoicePod Speech Recognition Device Enables Hands-Free Home Control
- Accessibility News June 1,2013 Update
- Fedora Outlier RELEASE: Lights, Camera, Action for Blind Film Critic During June’s AccessChat
- Ontario Government Denies AODA Consultation Process Was A Con
- Hiring a Worker With a Disability
- Fedora Outlier LLC Press RELEASE: Master iOS with New, Web Version of The Old Hat Guide to iPhone Accessibility
- Blind Federation Slams Captcha Security Test
- Audible signals about human rights: lawyer
- Elections Ontario Belatedly Replies to our December 7, 2012 Letter but Again Leaves Key Questions about Accessible Telephone and Internet Voting Unanswered
- Accessibility News June 8,2013 Update
- Ontario Government Floats AODA Trial Dirigible
- AODA Alliance Calls on Elections Ontario to Offer Telephone and Internet Voting in Upcoming as-Yet Unscheduled By-elections – And Seeks More Information about Elections Ontario’s Plans Regarding These Accessible Voting Technologies
- Poisoning the Treaty for the Blind
- Fedora Outlier LLC is Looking for Movers and Shakers in the Disability Community to Guest on its “Delivering Access podcast”
- Deaf-Vlind Ottawa Woman Angry After ‘Humiliating’ Air Canada Flight
- Disability Rights Advocates and Publishers Push for National Standards for Ed Tech Materials
- Accessibility News June 15,2013 Update
- Is The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities?
- Media Release: AODA Failure Due To Government’s Disability
- MIT Scientist Designs Wearable Tactile Displays for People With Vision and Hearing Disabilities
- iPad helps break down barriers for deaf student
- Researcher Demonstrates Accessible Voting Technology on Capitol Hill
- STW Wants Disabled In House
- Accessible Housing Offers Freedom for Disabled
- Accessibility News June 22,2013 Update
- Ontario Government Breaks Silence on AODA
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Elections Ontario Report on Telephone and Internet Voting is A Slap in the Face to Voters with Disabilities
- Group Finalizes Treaty to Expand Book Access for World’s Blind Community
- Breaking Their Own Law: Week 14;
- iOS 7 Includes New Head Gestures to Control Your iPhone
- Ontario Government Finally Appoints All Members to the Accessibility Standards Advisory Council – But Still Hasn’t Said What New Accessibility Standards It Will Develop
- Accessibility News June 29,2013 Update
- Ontario: AODA Activists Are Anti-Environment
- iPad Use With Blind and Partially Sighted Children
- Demo Version of AutisMate, SpecialNeedWare’s iPad App for People With Autism, Hits the Market
- Compliance Report: Northumberland and Bay Ferries Limited
- Ontario’s Accessibility Standards Advisory Council/Standards Development Committee
- Accessibility News July 6,2013 Update
- AODA Forms Are Government Collectables
- The Digital Silver Lining for Technology Inclusivity
- Taxi Accessibility Rule is the Right Tradeoff: James
- Action Kit On How to Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in Five August 1, 2013 Ontario By-Elections
- TTC Suspends Use of Wheel-Trans Security Camera Footage to Weed Out Ineligible Users
- Accessibility News July 13,2013 Update
- Government: Cocky and Getting Hard on AODA
- The Neglect of the Visually Impaired in Local Council Web Design
- McMaster University Faces Discrimination Claim From PhD Student
- Our Campaign for An Education Accessibility Standard Gets another Important boost
- The Blind Community’s Fight for a More Accessible Web
- Here’s Some Crumbs and a Pat on the Head Now be Thankful You Disabled and Go Away!
- Accessibility News July 20,2013 Update
- Lieutenant Governor General Tosses Government On AODA!
- Deadlines Loom for Canada’s Web Accessibility Laws
- Toronto Star Column Argues in Support of On-Line Voting in Upcoming Ontario By-elections- We Agree!
- Sprint Brings Caption Calling To iOS Devices
- Justice Department Settles with Louisiana Tech University Over Inaccessible Course Materials
- Conservative disability mailout uses braille that’s unreadable
- Accessibility News July 27,2013 Update
- FCC Proposes Making TV Menus Accessible to Blind
- Minister Hoskins: “AODA Delayed Because We Have No Balls”
- Game Changer in Ontario’s By-elections
- AODA Alliance Makes Public the Disability Accessibility Commitments of Ontario By-election Candidates: NDP Makes All Commitments We Seek – Liberals Make None of them – Conservatives Don’t Answer
- Canada’s Elderly at High Risk of Suicide, Can’t Afford Mental Health Care: Experts
- Canada’s failing grade on disability rights
- Accessibility News August 3,2013 Update
- Why AODA Was Created: The Truth!!
- Justice department pushes back date for proposed website accessibility rules – yet again
- Consumer Advocates Unite to Kill CAPTCHA
- Does web accessibility really “place ruinous obligations on websites”? – analysis of Internet Association brief
- Woman Refuses to Leave Train Over Accessibility Issues
- AODA Alliance Asks for a Meeting with the Accessibility Standards Advisory Council
- Watch A 30 Minute TV Interview on Progress under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act on Cable TV August 11 2013 and Re-Run Several Times over the Next Weeks
- Accessibility News August 10,2013 Update
- “Nostradamus Predicted AODA Delay”
- Accessibility Driving Mobile Technology MarketShare
- “Subsidized Transportation Program” not Accessible for People with Disabilities in County of Brant?
- Delivering Access Podcast, Episode 4 with Tom Dekker
- Wheelchair User Demands Better Montreal Metro Access
- AODA Alliance Chair Resorts to Freedom of Information Application to Get Access to Ontario Government’s Plans for Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News August 17,2013 Update
- Op-Ed: Municipalities Should Pay Attention to Workplace Mental Health
- Top Ten List Why AODA Has Not Been Implemented
- Digital Media Outcasts: Emergency Preparedness for Persons with Disabilities
- United States Department of Justice Supports New Yorkers with Disabilities who Seek to Vote at Poll Sites on Election Day
- New Yorkers with Disabilities Neglected In City’s Emergency Planning
- Assistive Technology: How iPhones Help Blind People See
- Phone App Could Prevent Thousands Going Blind
- Accessibility News August 24,2013 Update
- Top Ten Reasons Why AODA Will NEVER Be Implemented
- Pan/Parapan Am Games Sends Blind Lawyer Inaccessible Invitation
- Pan/Parapan American Games Sends AODA Alliance Chair an Inaccessible Invitation to Kickoff for Countdown to Toronto 2015 Games – What Example for Digital Accessibility is Ontario Showcasing for the World?
- Activist Launches Accessibility Audit of Businesses; Posts Results Online
- Tall Ships Not Accessible To Everyone
- Where is Disability Accessibility in the Ontario Government’s Planned Legacy for the Expensive 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games?
- Province Supports Organizations Providing Accessible Transportation
- An Open Letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne from Huronia Regional Centre Survivors
- Accessibility News August 31,2013 Update
- Why The Media Silence On AODA?
- Labor Rules to Boost Employment for Vets, Disabled
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation Endorses Our Call for the Ontario Government to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard
- Pre-Order Today: The Old Hat Guide To iPhone Accessibility, iOS7 Edition
- Harper Government Announces Concrete Measures to Give Better Access to Canadians With Disabilities to Their Communities
- Scientists Discover Disabling Gene That Only Affects Politicians and Government Burocrats, Name it ScrewU-itis
- Accessibility News September 7,2013 Update
- Top Ten Occurrences BEFORE AODA Is Fully Implemented
- FCC Requires Mobile Phone Manufacturers and Service Providers to Make Internet Browsers Accessible to the Blind and Visually Impaired by October 2013
- After Violating Ontario’s Disabilities Act for 102 Days, the Ontario Government Appoints Dean Mayo Moran of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law to Conduct Independent Review of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Legislation
- Wednesday Roundup For September 11, 2013
- New Map Makes Hamilton CBD More Accessible
- Workplace Accommodations: Low Cost, High Impact
- Accessibility News September 14,2013 Update
- Dean Moran: Be Aware Of AODA Apocalypses
- Huronia Regional Centre Lawsuit Alleges Abuse, Seeks $1B
- Control Center, New In iOS 7
- Prevent Blindness America Launches New Educational Program, “Living Well with Low Vision”
- New Voting System Gives Blind and Low Vision Voters More Choice
- Fedora Outlier: Wednesday Roundup For September 18, 2013
- Delivering Access Podcast, Episode 8 with Michael Hingson of the Hingson Group
- Accessibility News September 21,2013 Update
- AODA Implementation Techniques Can Help You Avoid Work
- Doug Paulley Wins First Bus Discrimination Ruling
- Ontario Premier’s Wife Linked to Behavioural Therapy Agency
- U.S. Proposes ADA Compliance for Public Websites
- Fedora Outlier: Wednesday Roundup For September 25, 2013
- Landmark Settlement Addresses Needs of Inmates With Mental Health Issues in Ontario Prisons
- Guide Dogs: Study Finds Shops Bar Users
- The Latest in Our Campaign to Get the Wynne Government to at Last Keep Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News September 28,2013 Update
- Paranoia About Politicians: Is There A Down Side?
- Federal Prison Staff Mishandling Mentally Ill Women Inmates: Ombudsman
- Fake Service Dogs, Real Problem
- New Laws Promised for Seniors and Disabled; Parties Speak Out on Access and Inclusion
- Because the Ontario Government Announced No Plans for a Disability Accessibility Legacy for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ ParaPan American Games, the AODA Alliance Urges the Government to Adopt Our Proposal for the Games’ Accessibility Legacy
- Wynne Government Proposes to Charge AODA Alliance Chair $2,325 to Answer His Freedom of Information Request on Government Plans for Keeping Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Trent Becomes First University in Canada to Introduce MV-1 Accessibility Vehicle
- Accessibility News October 5,2013 Update
- Top Ten Community Consultation Pitfalls
- Haptic Shoe Provides GPS Directions for Independent Motion of Blind, Visually Impaired
- Wednesday Roundup For October 9, 2013
- Take 2: iLife On-line Event Changes In iOS7 Replay
- Read A Compelling Excerpt on Fighting for Accessibility in Barb Turnbull’s New Memoir – and Other Important News in Our Accessibility Campaign
- Accessibility News October 12,2013 Update
- By Tricking the Brain, Disney’s Bringing Digital Sight to the Blind
- Holiday Special! Top Ten Things About AODA To Be Thankful For After Thanksgiving
- Ontario Universities Uniting to Help Faculty Identify and Help Students Struggling with Mental Health Issues, Improve Accessibility for All
- UN Survey Shows Needs of Persons With Disabilities Largely Ignored During Disasters
- Complying with the Integrated Accessibility Standards (IAS): Captioning and Describing Web Videos
- NIH Funds Development of Novel Robots to Assist People With Disabilities, aid doctors
- Accessibility News October 19,2013 Update
- Top Ten Halloween AODA/Ontario Disability Trick And Treats Played On People With Disabilities!
- The Not-So-Hidden Cause Behind the A.D.H.D. Epidemic
- News Release: FEMA and National Public Radio Work Together to Increase Emergency Alert Preparedness for People Who Are Deaf
- The Ontario Government Commits to More Open Government, but Keeps Dragging Its Feet on Answering the AODA Alliance Chair’s Freedom of Information Application, Submitted to Unearth the Government’s Plans for Effectively Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Video Could Transform How Schools Serve Teens With Autism
- Jury AWARDS BLIND WAR VET $160,000 FOR DISCRIMINATION BY CREDIT UNION
- Accessibility News October 26,2013 Update
- AODA Alliance Starts Kickstarter Campaign
- Press release: The First World Summit Destination for All will be held in Montreal in October 2014
- Enforcing Accessibility Regulations: A Canadian Perspective
- On the 15th Anniversary of the Ontario Legislature’s 1998 Pivotal Disabilities Act Resolution, Our Accessibility Campaign Has News in Three Provinces
- Paris Woman Attends International Forum on Disabilities
- On the 15th Anniversary of the Landmark Ontario Legislature’s Disabilities Act Resolution, the Wynne Government Refused to Directly Answer an Opposition Question on Why the Government is Charging the AODA Alliance Chair $2,325 to Answer His Freedom of Information Application, for the Government’s Plans for Enforcing the Disabilities Act
- Derailed on Accessibility
- Accessibility News November 2,2013 Update
- Hearing Loss Association of America and AMC Theatres® Reach Landmark Agreement to Dramatically Improve Access to Movies for Millions of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Patrons in New York State
- Advocates for blind cheer ruling on voter rights
- I, The AODA Jury
- New Toronto Star Editorial Backs Our Call for the Ontario Government to Reveal Its Plans for Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Read the AODA Alliance’s Oral Presentation to the Manitoba Legislature’s Standing Committee on Social and Economic Development on Bill 26- the Proposed Accessibility for Manitobans Act – And Other News
- Therapist Introduces iPads as Educational Tool for Children with Special Needs
- Uncle Sam Orders Airlines Make Websites Accessible To Disabled Passengers
- Accessibility News November 9,2013 Update
- Kiss The Law Deadly: Top Ten Survival Guide For Zombie Laws
- Court Says New York Neglected Disabled in Emergencies
- Blind job Seekers Face Hurdles in Pursuit of Work
- iPads Help Late-Speaking Children With Autism Develop Language
- Accessibility News November 16,2013 Update
- Ontario Government Information Fee Discounts
- A Win for Human Rights, Accessibility
- Ontario Must Enforce Equality Rules for Disabled: Editorial
- 10 Tips to Enable People With Disabilities to Get Jobs
- Restaurant Owners, Serve Up Your Menu to a Hungry Mobile Audience!
- Angry Note Left on Wheelchair Accessible Van attracting attention
- Accessibility News November 23,2013 Update
- The Ballad of AODA
- Justice Department Seeks to Intervene in Lawsuit Alleging H&R Block’s Tax Preparation Website Is Inaccessible to Individuals with Disabilities
- Tax Tips for the Deaf
- Students Design Website for Deaf People
- Experience Descriptive Audio at the Theater with a New iOS App MovieReading
- AODA—Preparing Your Business For Upcoming Compliance
- Letter to the Editor: Thank You to Via Rail
- Accessibility News November 30,2013 Update
- Ontario Government Sued For Causing Disabilities In Advocates
- TO MARK DECEMBER 3, THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THE AODA ALLIANCE ASKS ONTARIO’S POLITICAL PARTIES TO ENDORSE NINE IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES FOR ACTION TOWARD MAKING ONTARIO FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY 2025
- OFL Statement: Make Ontario a Fully Accessible Province by 2025!
- The AODA and the Lack of Enforcement
- European Consortium To Create Wearable Technology For The Blind
- Legal Aid Ontario Releases Pioneering Mental Health Strategy: Goar
- UMass Boston and IBM Advance Technology Accessibility Research
- CN Tower Goes Mobile!
- Rules Only Work if Enforced
- AODA Alliance: Final 2013 News Roundup from Our Accessibility Campaign
- Accessibility News December 7,2013 Update
- Everyday Barriers remain for disabled
- Ontario Honours International Day For People With Disabilities
- Auditor General’s Report: Autism Services in Disarray
- Ensuring Equal Justice for All
- Accessibility News December 14,2013 Update
- DOJ Joins Suit Against H&R Block, Saying Website Violates ADA
- 2013 AODA Summary: The Year of Doing Nothing, And Writing About It
- Safeway Announces Website Accessibility and Usability Enhancements to its On-line Grocery Delivery Website Benefiting Shoppers with Visual Impairments
- New Accessibility Regulations About to Be Implemented
- Disabled Still Face Work Barriers
- Legal Aid Ontario Working to Close the Gap for Clients with Mental Illnesses
- Voting Problems Widespread For Those With Disabilities
- Accessibility News December 21,2013 Update
- Workplace Study Exposes Difficulties Faced by Disabled Workers
- Why Rudolph Pooped On Premier Wynne’s Roof
- Big Pharma made $711 billion Overcharging Seniors and Disabled
- Vets Deserve Better From Feds Regarding Disability Benefits, Ombudsman Says
- Deadline to Prepare Accessibility Policies Approaching
- Ontario Government Knows Staggering 70% of Ontario Private Sector Organizations with 20 or More Employees Violating Disabilities Act’s Reporting Requirement
- Accessibility News December 28,2013 Update
- While Some Provinces Will Get Text-911 Service in New Year, Others Will Wait Until 2015
- Accessibility Not A Priority
- 2014: Our Top Ten Resolutions
- How Disability Simulations Promote Damaging Stereotypes
- AODA Deadline Passes: Is your Restaurant Menu Accessible?
- New Accessibility Amendments to Ontario’s Building Code – Overview of Updated Requirements
- Accessibility News January 4,2014 Update
- BRITISH COLUMBIA ACCESS UPDATE
- Why Do We Fear the Blind?
- Online Accessibility for Disabled Becomes a Must
- Blind People Battle for Better Web Access Before EU Elections
- TTC: Support Person Assistance Card
- Employment May Lead to Improvement in Autism Symptoms
- Accessibility News January 11,2014 Update
- B.C. Budd Wants To Know: Where Will All The People Go (A Long Times Passing!)
- Ebook for Visually Impaired Kids Coming Soon
- College President Offers Disability Advice
- Air Canada Apologizes After Soldier’s PTSD Service Dog Fee
- Vanderbilt Study Reveals Senses of Sight and Sound Separated in Children With Autism
- Taxi Bylaw Change Will Ensure Service Dogs Can Ride
- Pickering Considers Calling for Vancouver-style Doorknob Ban
- Accessibility News January 18,2014 Update
- AODA 2014: Nostradamus Stunning Predictions
- Helping Ontarians With Disabilities Live Independently
- Industry Panel Discusses New Federal Rules Affecting Hiring & Recruitment of People with Disabilities
- Ghotit Releases the First Android Writing & Reading Solution for People with Dyslexia
- NS: Halifax Cabbies Facing Heat Over Service Dogs
- National Federation of the Blind Sues Department of Transportation Over Airline Regulations
- P.J. O’Brien Irish Pub and Restaurant Goes Accessible
- Accessibility News January 25,2014 Update
- Action Kit for Raising Disability Accessibility Issues in Two February 13, 2014 Ontario By-Elections
- Ontario Gripped by Access Vortex
- Ontario’s English Catholic Teachers Union Presses the Ontario Government to Enact an Education Accessibility Standard under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Changes to UK Disability Benefit Payments Set to Reduce Independence
- Residents Struggle With Accessibility Issues
- Did You Live at Rideau Regional Centre or Southwestern Regional Centre Between 1963 and 2009?
- Appalling Toronto Star Report of Disability Accessibility Barriers on Greyhound Bus Ride from Toronto to Kitchener Reveals that the Ontario Government Doesn’t Understand or Recall Why It Passed the AODA
- Accessibility News February 1,2014 Update
- Parents of Kids With Autism Fight to Get Service Dogs in Schools
- B.C. Budd’s Moving Experience!
- FCC Sets Path for Widespread Text-to-911 Deployment
- WordPress for Badeyes: A Beginners Guide
- ACCAN Wants Google to Rethink reCAPTCHA
- Greyhound Steps Up Accessibility Training for Bus Drivers
- McMaster Centre to Study Disability and Work
- Ontario Government’s Promised Plan to Increase Private Sector Employment for Ontarians with Disabilities Turns Out To Be More Delay, Re-Inventing the Wheel, No Teeth and No Imminent Practical Improvements
- Accessibility News February 8,2014 Update
- Valentine’s Day 2014: An AODA Ode
- Ontario’s Three Major Parties answer the AODA Alliance’s Survey Seeking Disability Accessibility Commitments in the Two February 13, 2014 By-Elections – Only the NDP Made All Accessibility Commitments We Seek
- Welcome Federal Funding for Canadians with Autism
- Badeyes Offers Beginners Guide for WordPress First Timers
- Autism Funding Shortage Frustrates Grimsby Parents
- Students Highlight Simple Steps to Accessibility
- Accessibility News February 15,2014 Update
- Vote Now To Ostracize Ontario Government Politicians
- Upcoming Priorities for Community Action on Disability Accessibility – and – Blizzard of Great Recent Media Coverage
- Unemployment of People with Intellectual Disabilities More than Twice as High as General Population
- Ontario Vows to Enforce Accessibility Law
- Updated: Hearing Society Pleased With Enhanced 911 Service
- AODA Legislative Review Now Scheduling Presentations
- Ontario Government Sat on A Detailed Plan for Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act since at Least May 2012, According to a Front Page Story in the Toronto Star that Quotes the AODA Alliance
- Tim Hortons Menu Goes Accessible!
- Accessibility News February 22,2014 Update
- Franz Kafka Explains AODA Compliance Plan Failure
- Technology Helps People With Speech Impairments Sound Like Themselves
- The Eaton Chelsea Hotel Jumps on the Accessible Restaurant Menu Bandwagon!
- FCC Moves to Upgrade TV Closed Captioning Quality
- Commentary: Accessibility One Door At A Time
- Elections Canada Launches Advisory Group for Disability Issues
- California May Crack Down on Fake Service Dogs
- Sign Up for Public Hearings for Dean Mayo Moran’s Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Enforcement in Ottawa, Toronto, London, Thunder Bay and On-Line
- Banks, Energy Providers and Public Bodies Should Be Subject to Web Accessibility Rules, Vote MEPs
- Accessibility News March 1,2014 Update
- Screen Reader User Survey #5 Results
- Playing in the Dark, Not Like Being Blind
- Affordable Colleges For Students With Disabilities
- Reinterpreting and Expanding “The Right to Live in the World”
- Public Comment on Proposed Changes to the Customer Service Standard
- Text-to-911 Coming to City
- Disabled Woman Wins Discriminatory Pay Case at Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
- AODA: A Moving Experience
- Accessibility News March 8,2014 Update
- With a Possible Spring Election Looming, AODA Alliance Writes Ontario Party Leaders to Request Election Commitments on Disability Accessibility
- Petition: Incorporate Voice Technology, Audio Cues, and/or Tactile Buttons Into Your Flat Panel Appliances to Make Them Accessible to the Blind and Those With Low Vision
- Is it Time for a UN Investigation into AODA Compliance and Enforcement?
- The AODA Howl
- Ontario Government ramps up enforcement of AODA
- Ontario’s Accessibility Standards Advisory Council Announces Public Consultations on Its Initial Proposal for Revisions to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard – But Refuses Our Requests to Make This Consultation More Open, Inclusive and Effective
- Pizza Pizza Delivers an Accessible Accessible Menu!
- Accessibility News March 15,2014 Update
- Not Compliant With AODA? Ignore Compliance Audit Notice at Your Peril
- Gartner Says New U.S. Government Rules Will Require IT Leaders to Consider How IT Infrastructure Can Help Promote Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
- Please Give Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief on Proposed Revisions to the 2007 customer Service Accessibility Standard Enacted under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- The AODA Raven
- Field of Play: Awakening to the Truth of the Paralympics
- The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) & Web Accessibility
- Accessibility News March 22,2014 Update
- The Case Against Assistive Technology
- Landmark Settlement Agreement Substantially Improves Accessibility to Golden Gate National Recreational Area
- National Federation of the Blind and H&R Block Announce Agreement Assuring Accessibility
- Participants Wanted for Study: Disability and Mobile Technology
- Assistive Devices Program (ADP) Survey
- GO Rider Files Human Rights Complaint After Other Drivers Block Disabled Parking
- AODA Enforcement Inspired By Game Of Thrones
- Learn All About the History, Strategies, Goals and Gains of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Movement from the Late 1970s to Early 2014
- Accessibility News March 29,2014 Update
- Three Simple Ways to Make Your Hiring Accessible to Persons with Disabilities
- As the Ontario Government Continues to Break its Promise to Effectively Enforce Its Disability Accessibility Law, its Minister Responsible for its Enforcement Introduces New Bill into the Legislature to Cut Regulations on Business – Will Accessibility Safeguards Be Kept off the Chopping Block?
- Ontario Government Cancels AODA In Ridings Where It Isnt A Gas
- Online College Learning for Students with Disabilities Database
- Bill C-23: Its Impact on Electors with Disabilities
- Will we Finally get Reform of Disability Services at Toronto Pearson International Airport?
- Accessibility News April 5,2014 Update
- Update: Kathleen Wynne: Reverse Cuts to Students With Disabilities at the Provincial Schools
- Please Email the Ontario Government to Say If You Endorse Our Final Brief on the Initial Proposed Revisions to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Ontario Proposes Business Climate Act, Will Sue God If It Does Not Work
- Universities Breaking Distance Barriers with Fuze Video Collaboration
- Families Sue Disney; Claim Park Violates Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA)
- New Communications Technology Reconnecting People who are Deaf-Blind
- Disability Community ‘Has Lost a True Champion’ in Jim Flaherty
- Accessibility News April 12,2014 Update
- Accessibility Lipstick on a Usability Pig
- OnlineCandidate.com Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to Offer Politicians an Easy Solution for Better Reaching, Serving and Empowering People with Disabilities
- Canadians’ Mental-Health Info Routinely Shared With FBI, U.S. Customs
- Banking on Website Accessibility Lawsuits
- National Federation of the Blind and Four Blind People File Suit Against RideCharge, Inc. and Three Taxicab Companies in California
- A Weighty Issue: Power Wheelchairs vs Ramp and Lift Restrictions
- Accessibility News April 19,2014 Update
- Turkish Scientists Create ‘Talking Hands’ for Deaf
- Canadian Airlines Told To Allow Free Attendant Fare
- CRTC Announces That Canadians Who Are Deaf, Hard of Hearing or Speech Impaired Will Have Access to a New Telecommunications Service
- City of Toronto Offers Voters with Disabilities Scytls Solutions for Internet and Telephone Voting
- Traveling Poses a Unique Set of Challenges for People with Blindness
- AccessiGate: Canadian Banks Clarify Why Sites Not Accessible
- Does Your Website Have to Comply With AODA? The Answer is: Probably
- Accessibility Spreading Like Wildfire!
- Accessibility News April 26,2014 Update
- Meet the Company That Wants to be the Netflix for Blind People
- Special Needs Kids Often Told to Stay Home From School, Says People for Education Report
- TTC Enhancing Accessibility With Blue Priority Seating
- Revel Systems Launches New iPad POS Accessibility Bundle for the Visually Impaired
- Class Action Suit Claims Apple Store POS System Discriminates Against Visually Impaired
- AODA Alliance Writes Economic Development, Trade and Employment Minister to Request Specific Details on Government Action to Implement and Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Viewing the May 1, 2014 Ontario Budget Through A Disability Accessibility Lens – Chock-Full of Missed Opportunities to Ensure Ontario Becomes Fully Accessible to People with Disabilities by 2025
- Accessibility News May 3,2014 Update
- Please Raise Disability Accessibility Issues with Voters and Candidates Across Ontario! — AODA Alliance Writes Party Leaders to Ask for their Disability Accessibility Platforms in the June 12, 2014 Election, by May 9, 2014
- Yellowknife and The Toilet Seat of Democracy
- Compare the Major Ontario Parties’ Records On Disability Accessibility
- Historic Rule Passed; NYC Taxicab Accessibility to Dramatically Increase
- Lest You Forgot: The Wynne/McGuinty Legacy
- What New Efforts will Elections Ontario Make to Remove Barriers Impeding Voters with Disabilities During the June 12, 2014 Ontario Election?
- Accessibility News May 10,2014 Update
- Lawyer slams payout cuts to injured workers
- FDA Approves Segway Inventor’s Mind-Controlled Robotic Arm
- Accessibility Improvements Continue in Oshawa
- Portable Toilet That Expands for People in Wheelchairs Wins COU’s annual IDeA Student Contest to Improve Accessibility
- AODA: The need to clarify public transportation in the standards
- How Pollyanna Usually Goes Swimming in Yellowknife
- AODA Alliance Holds Novel On-Line “Virtual News Conference” to Unveil the Ontario Parties’ 2014 Disability Accessibility Election Pledges – Urge Your Local Media to Cover the Election’s Disability Accessibility Issues!
- Accessibility News May 17,2014 Update
- Disability Advocates Call on Party Leaders to Ensure Barrier-Free Ontario
- Ontario Betting Pools Damaged by Election News
- Disability Report Opens Door to Greater Accessibility
- World Blind Union(WBU) Letter to All Governments
- AODA Alliance: 2014 Ontario Election Action Kit
- New Guidelines Require Buildings to Be Accessible for Persons With Disabilities
- Elections Ontario Writes AODA Alliance to Say What It Is Doing to Remove Voting Barriers that Impede Voters with Disabilities – And Other Ontario 2014 Election News on the Accessibility Front
- May 27 2014 All Candidates Debate in Hotly-Contested Toronto Riding Planned for Evidently-Inaccessible Location
- Accessibility News May 24,2014 Update
- Ontario Liberals Just Don’t Understand Mental Illness
- Our Victory for Accessibility! Come to May 27, 2014 Parkdale-High Park All Candidates’ Debate
- HUD Announces Alternative Accessibility Standard for Federally Funded Construction Projects
- Launch of New Library Service Provides Accessible Books to Over Three Million Canadians With Print Disabilities
- Orion Sued for Alleged Disability Discrimination
- Ex-Dolphins Scout with Sick Wife: I was Fired for Working From Home
- Accessibility News May 31,2014 Update
- Ajax to Use Internet Voting in Municipal Election
- Inaccessible All Candidates Debate Held in Cambridge Ontario – Media Reports Disability Advocates Can’t Question Cambridge Candidates About Disability Accessibility Pledges, Because They Cannot Get Into the Event
- Nostradamus Predicts Ontario Election Results
- ADVOCATE FOR THE BLIND FILES HUMAN RIGHTS CHALLENGE AGAINST WALMART CANADA AND SHOPPERS DRUG MART
- Chief Electoral Officer Greg Essensa is a Barrier to Voters With Disabilities!
- Voter in Wheelchair Slams Poorly Equipped Ontario Polling Station
- Elections Ontario is Caught Out Using a Toronto Polling Station Location that Lacks Proper Accessibility, After Having Been Warned In Advance
- Press Release: Inaccessible, Dangerous and Deadly
- Accessibility News June 7,2014 Update
- Who’s Making B.C. Transportation Policy?
- Watch AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky as He Appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin to Discuss Election Accessibility Issues — And — Still More Disability Barriers in this Election
- Mental Health and Recovery are the Missing Election Issues
- Media Reports that Conservative Leader Tim Hudak Promises More Jobs for People with Disabilities — But Won’t Promise that He Won’t Cut Accessibility Regulations, Including Standards Aiming at Workplace Accessibility — and — More Disability Barriers to Voting
- Hudak Vows to Help Disabled Find Work
- Blind Man Frustrated by Voting Experience
- Can Ontario Really Become Barrier-Free By 2025?
- AODA Alliance: Kicking Off the Next Phase in Our Accessibility Advocacy Efforts — What Premier Wynne Promised — What Opportunities Await us — What We Achieved in the 2014 Election Campaign — and — What’s Next!
- Pollyanna’s Ontario Election Wrap-up
- Accessibility News June 14,2014 Update
- Workplace Safety Insurance Board Steps Up Spying on Clients, Documents Show
- AODA: The Failure of a Self-Reporting Structure
- Toronto Police Admit “Mistake” After Finding Holding Cell Video They Say Didn’t Exist
- Ontario Issues Human Rights Policy for the Mentally Ill
- Appeal Process for CPP disability Benefits is a ‘David and Goliath’ Battle, Sask. Advocate Says
- Send Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief to the Mayo Moran Independent Review of the AODA’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Enforcement
- Increasing Opportunities for Children Living With Intellectual Disabilities to Participate in Physical Activity
- B.C. Premier Offers Hope!
- Toronto author inspires Archie Comics’ first disabled character
- Accessibility News June 21,2014 Update
- Panel Will Help Make Province More Accessible, Inclusive
- Advancing Ontario’s accessibility: a study of linguistic, discursive, and conceptual barriers
- Education Dept. Issues New Special Ed Rules
- AMI-Audio Special Focuses on the Accessibility of Some of the USA’s Most Famous Monuments
- Farmed Salmon Conversion Success Required Before B.C. Disability Pensions Increase
- Accessibility News June 28,2014 Update
- Let the Mayo Moran AODA Independent Review Know if You Endorse the AODA Alliance’s June 30, 2014 Final Brief on the AODA’s Implementation and Enforcement
- Concerned About Councillor’s Response to Accessibility Issues
- Advances in Technology Can Leave Some Behind
- Accessibility Regulations Prompt Comments From County
- New Accessibility Rules Coming to Airline Websites. Are You Ready?
- FDA Allows Marketing of First Wearable, Motorized Device That Helps People With Certain Spinal Cord Injuries to Walk
- New Wynne Government Starts Off Positively!
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Submission Regarding Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 2013-14 Legislative Review
- Accessibility News July 5,2014 Update
- Blind Man Wins Human Rights Case After Restaurant Bars Guide Dog
- High-Tech FingerReader Reads to the Blind in Real Time
- National Federation of the Blind Urges Obama Administration to Issue ADA Internet Regulations
- Lack of Accessible Tourism Costing EU Economy Billions in Lost Potential Revenue
- Advocates for Blind, Deaf Want More From Apple
- Accessibility News July 12,2014 Update
- FCC OKs Online Clip Captioning Rules
- Chicago RTA Highlights Accessibility of Region’s Transit Systems
- App Will Help Blind Users Navigate Minneapolis
- Doctors Turning Away Patients With Disabilities
- EOC Sues Toys ‘R’ Us for Disability Discrimination
- First ADA ATM Accessibility Class Action Lawsuit Is Filed In Atlanta
- Federal Plan to Help Mentally Ill Female Inmates on Hold
- Survey Suggests Federal Network Complexity is Limiting Data Center Consolidation
- Accessibility News July 19,2014 Update
- Access Health Clock Announced
- How Accessibility is Redefining Personalization
- Seven Reasons why disabled Canadians are Losing CPP Benefits
- No More Wait Lists for Disabled in Ontario, All-Party Report Urges
- Toronto Cancels Plan to Allow Online, Phone Voting for Disabled Citizens in 2014
- No Rest for the Weary: More AODA Compliance Required in January 2015
- PRESS RELEASE : DUCERE TECHNOLOGIES LAUNCHES LECHAL Worlds first interactive haptic footwear
- Harper Government Supports Innovative Pilot Program Assisting Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder Obtain Employment in the IT Industry
- Disabled Man Reports ‘Hurtful’ Comments to TTC 400 Says Booth Collector Called Him a ‘Diddler’
- Accessibility News July 26,2014 Update
- Innovative Recommendations for Toronto Police Dealing with the Mentally Ill
- Open Doors Organization will reveal the findings on international travel of its 2014 national survey of American travelers with disabilities at the World Summit Destinations for All
- Ontario Should Consult People With Disabilities Before Making Laws to Protect Them
- Presidential Proclamation — Anniversary of the Americans With Disabilities Act
- Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation Updating New York’s Accessibility Signage and Logos
- Employers Weary From Avoiding AODA To Get Free Energy Bars
- Deaf-Blind woman Tests Canada’s Equality Guarantee: Goar
- Accessibility News August 2,2014 Update
- Government Supports Accessible Transportation
- Not Yet Disability Clock Is Ticking!
- National Federation of the Blind Endorses Online Ballot Marking
- Redbox and Lighthouse for the Blind, DRA Announces Settlement Agreement
- New Ontario Working Group to Address Mental Health and Autism in Adults
- Accessibility News August 9,2014 Update
- Pollyanna and Kafka Debate The B.C. Accessibility Summit
- Scientists Link Environment, Inclusion in Adults with Disabilities
- Doing Business in Ontario: New Employment Laws Are Overwhelming Small Businesses
- Using Technology To Mitigate Cognitive Disabilities
- Groundbreaking Report: The Cost of Exclusion
- AODA Alliance Writes New Minister Responsible for Implementing and Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act to Urge Priorities for Prompt Action
- Accessibility News August 16,2014 Update
- Minister Duguid Forces Pollyanna To Kafka
- Toronto Star Reports that Metrolinx Designed Underground Eglinton LRT Stations with Troubling and Preventable Barriers to Disability Accessibility and Safety
- UK CAA Tighten Information Rules For Disabled Passengers
- 5 Shocking Ways the Modern World Screws Blind People
- Baltimore Required to Improve Hiring Policies and Practices to Comply with Disabilities Act
- Cloud Computing: Potential, Pitfalls for People with Disabilities
- Accessibility News August 23,2014 Update
- aMENU Accessible Restaurant Menu Demonstration
- Purple Communications Introduces Next-Generation SmartVP 2.0 Videophone
- AODA Alliance Chair Resorts to Freedom of Information Application to Unearth the Story on How and Why Metrolinx Designed the New Eglinton Subway with Barriers to Disability Accessibility and Safety
- One Full Year to the Day After the Wynne Government Unveiled Its Planned Legacy for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games, Where is the Comprehensive Plan for a Strong and Lasting Legacy of Improved Disability Accessibility?
- Elections Canada Announces Accessibility Improvements
- KNFB Reader: Access to Print Text on the Go for Blind and Visually Impaired
- Accessibility News August 30,2014 Update
- Ontario Deaf Students Fighting for Better Education
- Auckland Disability Community Unite on First Feedback to UN
- Toronto Star Reports on Wynne Government’s Failure to Ensure an Effective Disability Accessibility Legacy for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Accessibility Is On the Menu
- Woman with Cerebral Palsy Could Lose Job After Attendant Funding Cut
- Accessibility News September 6,2014 Update
- For blind bus riders, a new app boosts independence
- On the 20th Anniversary of the Launch of the Public Battle to Get TTC to Announce all Subway Stops, the AODA Alliance Calls on Voters with Disabilities Across Ontario to Seek Strong Accessibility Commitments from Candidates for Mayor, City Council and School Board, in the Lead-Up to the October 27, 2014 Ontario Municipal Elections
- New iBooks® Textbook Helps Visually Impaired Visit the Stars Through Touch, Sound
- Campaign on TTC Accessibility
- Where Do Mayoral Candidates Stand on Accessible Transit?
- The World Of Duguidcraft: A Brief Walkthrough
- Uber Sued for Allegedly Refusing Rides to the Blind and Putting a Dog in the Trunk
- AODA Alliance Writes New Ontario Government Services Minister to Urge Action to Make the Ontario Public Service a Fully Accessible Workplace and Provider of Public Services
- Accessibility News September 13,2014 Update
- Open Letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne
- Russia’s Treatment of Disabled Kids “Deplorable”: Study
- New Award Honours Leaders in Accessibility
- Onley Champions Accessibility as Term Ends
- Minister Duguid Communications Strategy Revealed
- AODA Alliance Writes the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to Identify Key Accessibility Priorities for that Ministry
- AODA Alliance Writes the Ontario Treasury Board, the International Trade Minister and the Attorney General to Identify Key Disability Accessibility Priorities for Their Ministries
- Accessibility News September 20,2014 Update
- New Smartphone App Gives Sight to People With Vision Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Writes the Ontario Minister of Education, the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities (who is also the Minister of Research and Innovation) and the Minister of Health to Identify Key Disability Accessibility Priorities for Their Ministries
- Guide Dog Users Group launches Innovative Mobile App
- Angry Judge Demands Interpreter for Deaf Man
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Kathleen Wynne to Highlight Major Disability Accessibility Priorities
- Aeroplan Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to Offer App for People with Disabilities
- Top Ten Reasons Minister Duguid Is AODA Silent
- Higher Education Websites Unsuitable for Special Needs Students, says Report
- Accessibility News September 27,2014 Update
- SourceAmerica: the Source of America’s Discrimination against Workers with Disabilities
- Tribunal Fines Employers for Contraventions of the AODA
- TTC Doesn’t Have Money to Make All Subway Stops Accessible
- Ministry of Health’s Prescription for Change for Clients With Vision Loss
- Merck Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to Offer App for People With Disabilities
- AODA Compliance Report Required From Businesses of 20 or More by Dec 31, 2014
- Accessibility News October 4,2014 Update
- Brock Churches Recognized for Accessibility Improvements
- Blind Woman Calls Foul on Government Letters
- Is it Time for Local AODA Alliance Chapters?
- Scientist Creates Eye Tracker for £43
- Premier Wynne Snubs 2014 Written Election Promise to 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- New Information On AODA Compliance!
- The Coming Tide of Website Disability Claims Under ADA
- Premier Wynne’s Mandate Letter to Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid Downplays His Duty to Implement and Enforce Ontario’s Disabilities Act Among A Blizzard of Other Ministry Priorities
- AODA Compliance in 2015: Are You Up to Date?
- Ten Years Ago Tomorrow, the Ontario Government Introduced Bill 118, Its Proposed Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Into the Ontario Legislature for First Reading
- Accessibility News October 11,2014 Update
- New Statement on AODA By Minister Duguid! Really!
- Provincial Government Failing to Make Toronto Barrier Free, Disabilities Activist Says
- The Curse of the One Step
- Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites
- Australian Public Service Commission launches video on disability
- Communication Technology Opens ‘Doors’ for Everyone, Not Only People With Disabilities
- Sussex Drive Scotiabank complies with bylaw despite lack of ramp
- Despite Promising to be the Most Open and Transparent Government in Canada, Wynne Government Again Tries Charging a Hefty Fee to Give Answers on Its Promises on Disability Accessibility
- Accessibility News October 18,2014 Update
- Greater Victoria Bus Driver Defies Policy on Announcing Stops
- A Failed Game Changer: Post-Secondary Education and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Metrolinx Backs Down!
- Centre Wellington Accessibility Report Endorsed
- User-Friendly Electronic ‘Eyecane’ Enhances Navigational Abilities for Blind
- Join us at Queen’s Park Friday November 28, 2014 to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Birth of the Grassroots Movement in Ontario for a Strong Disability Accessibility Law
- Accessibility News October 25,2014 Update
- Former Lieutenant Governor to Champion Accessibility in Ontario
- The Varsity: The State of the Clubhouse
- To Siri, With Love
- EEOC Sues The Lash Group for Disability Discrimination
- Town to Continue Public Transportation Beyond November 17
- Committee Calls for Greater Accessibility
- Accessibility News November 1,2014 Update
- the burg watch’s Accessibility Hall of Shame
- Shayne Gets a Kick Out of Football, Despite Everything
- Teenager Gets Financial Backing to Make Low-Cost Braille Printer
- Blind Woman Gisele Mesnage Sues Coles Over Online Shopping Website
- Nominations Sought for Accessibility Leadership Award
- Wynne Government Ignores Yet another Election Promise to Over 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility News November 8,2014 Update
- The Blind Are Faking it!
- Still Time to RSVP to Attend Our Friday, November 28, 2014 Queens Park Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Disabilities Act Movement
- Politician AODA Time Explained
- The Best in Disability Advertising Awarded to Duracell at ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference
- The Accessibility Standards Advisory Council Submits Weak, Ineffective and Counter-productive Final Recommendations to the Ontario Government for Proposed Revisions to the Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Tragedy 50 Years in the Making
- Comcast Introduces Talking TV Guide For Visually Impaired
- Adoption of One World for Everyone, the Declaration of the Destinations for All World Summit
- KNFB Reader for iOS: Does This App Live up to All the Hype?
- Online Voting Clicks With Residents in Ajax; Turnout Jumps 17% With GTA’s First Paperless Ballot
- Accessibility News November 15,2014 Update
- Dr. Who Helps Ontario Government
- One Year Ago Today We Revealed that the Wynne Government Knew Staggering 70% of Private Sector Organizations with 20 or More Employees Were Violating Disabilities Act, But No Effective Enforcement, Despite Election Promises
- U.S. Department of Justice Continues Enforcement of Accessibility Requirements for Websites and Mobile Apps But Its Rulemaking Still Awaits
- In Canada, DIY Wheelchair Ramps Are an Imperfect Fix
- NDP MPP Cindy Forster Grills Premier Wynne in the Legislature on Why Her Mandate Letters Marching Orders to Her Cabinet Ministers Leave out Most Government Promises on Disability Accessibility
- Guide Dogs Creates New Guidance for Police Officers to Help guide dog Owners
- Is This Venue Accessible?
- Digital Inclusion: The Benefits of Better Web Accessibility
- Former Students Suing Provincially Run School for Alleged Abuse
- Accessibility News November 22,2014 Update
- Improving System for Person With Disabilities Good for All Says US Advocate on Tour of UN Accessibility Centre
- Standing Up for the Right to Walk Again; Double Amputee in Dispute with WSIB Over Rehab for New Legs
- Durham MPP Granville Anderson’s New Bowmanville Office Poses Accessibility Hurdles
- Minister Duguid Learns From Neanderthals
- Verdi Club Did Not Meet Elections Ontario’s Accessibility Standards
- A Remarkable 20-Year Struggle for Disabled Rights: Hepburn
- Toronto Star Runs An Amazing Column on Tomorrow’s Celebration at Queens’s Park Tomorrow of the 20th Anniversary of the Grassroots Campaign for a Fully-Accessible Ontario for All People with Disabilities
- City Orders Restaurant to Remove Wheelchair Ramp
- AODA Alliance Holds Successful Celebration at Queens Park to Mark the 20th Anniversary of the Birth of Ontario’s Non-Partisan Movement for Strong Disability Accessibility Legislation
- Accessibility News November 29,2014 Update
- While the Ontario Government Continues Multi-Year Dithering on Accessibility Rather than Keeping Its Promise to Effectively Enforce Ontarios Accessibility Legislation, the City of Toronto Wrongly Orders a Downtown Restaurant to Remove Its Wheelchair Ramp
- Minister Duguid Is A Nice Guy and His Dog Agrees
- Making Niagara the Accessible Destination of Choice
- Canadian Innovations Take ‘Dis’ Out of Disability
- 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Still Waiting for Justice:
- Equal Access Movement 20 Years Old
- Google Can Now Tell You’re Not a Robot With Just One Click
- Accessibility News December 6,2014 Update
- shopamherstburg.ca has accessibility issues
- Deaf and Blind Able to Shop Alone at Non-Profit Grocery Store
- Accessible Parking Spots are a Magnet for Selfish Drivers
- AODA – The Government’s Albatross
- WSIB Savings Come at a Cost
- Echo Sense Network Glasses: Remote Vision for the Blind
- Sign the Optional Protocol of the CRPD
- Accessibility News December 13,2014 Update
- The Ten Years of AODA Implementation Seasonal Carol
- ‘Not a niche market’: Accessibility for disabled business travellers takes centre stage
- ‘I Will Not Be Bullied . . . Bought’; Sudbury Ex-Candidate Says Wynne’s Office Hinted He’d Be Rewarded to Stay Out of Race
- E-Book Legal Restrictions Are Screwing Over Blind People
- The Business of Becoming Accessible in Whitby
- Ottawa Residents With Disabilities Laud Provincial Building Code Changes
- The Badeyes WordPress Theme is Now Live and Available for Download!
- Accessible Travel Kiosks Will Remove Barriers and Increase Independence
- Intelivote Releases Trends in Electronic Voting for 48 Ontario Municipalities
- Accessibility News December 20,2014 Update
- Gaming Technology Makes its Way Into Headsets for the Visually Impaired
- AODA 2014 – 2015 Upcoming Deadlines and Things to Work on in 2015 for 2016
- Court Puts 6-Month Limit on Detentions Under Mental Health Act
- Nostradamus Refuses To Predict 2015 AODA Implementation
- 2014 Year-End Retrospective on Our Non-Partisan Campaign for Disability Accessibility And More News from the Accessibility Front Lines
- The Next Frontier in ADA Litigation: Website and App Access for the Disabled
- Accessibility News December 27,2014 Update
- The Clock Is Ticking On AODA Compliance
- EEOC Settles Disability Discrimination Suit with Sony
- Civil Rights Advocates Challenge Metro-North’s Failure to Provide Wheelchair Access to the Upgraded Port Chester Station
- Toronto Employment Lawyer, Doug MacLeod, comments on Ontario’s Top Ten Employment Law Stories in 2014
- Province Moves to Make Buildings More Accessible for Disabled
- AODA New Year’s Resolutions Already A Total Failure
- Accessibility News January 3,2015 Update
- A Critical Look at the Proposed Revisions to the Accessible Customer Service Standard
- Man With Disability Wants Apology from Theatre Chain
- Siemens Introduces Smart Hearing Aids at the 2015 International CES
- World’s First Online International Deaf-Blind Conference translated by Translate Your World
- Premier KathLying Wynne’s Governments Record for 2014, Nothing to Be Proud of!
- Important Changes ARE Coming IN 2015 to ODSP Employment Benefits
- Accessibility News January 10,2015 Update
- Stops Not Called, Drivers Disciplined; Majority ‘Extremely Upset’ with Order, Transit Union Says
- Is Accessible TV Viewing Finally on Its Way?
- Disability, Employment and the New Veterans Charter
- Ontario Review of Psychiatric Wait Times in Jail Kept Secret
- Live Text May Make Council Meetings More Accessible
- Scooter Tumble Down Stairs Leads to ‘Wheelchairs Only’ Message
- Wynne staffer suggested ‘longer-term role’ for Olivier
- Competing In Power Football Takes More Than Athletic Ability
- New AODA resource for Web Developers Launched!
- Accessibility News January 17,2015 Update
- Practising Outside the Technology Box
- Commission Warns City on Changes to Handi-Transit Rules
- Premier Wynne and Economic Develop Minister Duguid Respond to AODA Alliances Detail Proposals to Get Ontario Back on Schedule for Full Disability Accessibility by 2025
- Accessibility of Government Websites Often Fall Short
- Watch Captioned Videos of Last Fall’s Queen’s Park Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Ontario’s Grassroots Campaign for Strong Accessibility Legislation
- More Than Voting Booths: Accessibility of Electoral Campaigns for People With Disabilities in Ontario
- Accessibility News January 24,2015 Update
- Female PS Workers’s Disability Claims Outnumber Mmen’s two-to-one
- Israel’s Mobile Technologies For Disabled Find Mass market Appeal
- New App Connects Visually Impaired With Sighted Assistants
- You Know, Blind People Can Actually Use Touchscreens
- Canada: The Employer Case For Effective Disability Management
- As the ADA Turns 25, Website Accessibility Issues Pose Legitimate Risks for the Financial Services Industry
- Accessibility News January 31,2015 Update
- Ontarians Like Online Voting, but Turnout Boost May Be Minor, Study Suggests
- Nothing to Cheer for
- Sobeys Employee Hopes Viral Picture Sends Bigger Message About Lending a Hand
- Watch The Agenda With Steve Paikin Tonight on TV Ontario, Featuring Interview with Former Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley and AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky
- Workers Must Play Active Role in Accommodation
- New Alliance Offers Voice to Disabled
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- A Great New Tool in Our New Blitz to Get Every Member of the Ontario Legislature to Press the Government for New Action on Disability Accessibility
- Accessibility News February 7,2015 Update
- Should Websites Be Required to Provide Better Access to the Disabled?
- More Missing Money at CNIB Lottery Kiosks
- Canadian Paralympic Committee Receives $30,000 Grant from Milos Raonic Foundation in Support of Parasport
- Canada Post Cutbacks Will Impact the Disabled
- Harvard, MIT Sued Over Lack of Closed Captioning Online
- Accessibility Can Change the Way We Think
- Ontario Committed to Accessibility
- Government-Commissioned Independent Report Shows Serious Problems with Ontario Governments Implementation of Disabilities Accessibility Law
- Final Report of Mayo Moran’s Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Just Made Public Report Reveals Serious Problems
- Accessibility News February 14,2015 Update
- Accessibility Issue Needs Urgent Attention in Whitby, Says Walk Organizer
- Ontario Needs to Boost Accessibility Efforts
- Send Your Member of the Ontario Legislature the Great Media Coverage of the Final Report of Mayo Moran’s Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Exclusive: Surrealism Of AODA Response To Moran Report Explained!
- U.S. Access Board Releases Proposed Updated Accessibility Requirements for Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
- Accessibility News February 21,2015 Update
- AODA Alliance Asks Candidates for Leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party to Make Commitments on Disability Accessibility
- OPEN Letter to Citizens of Ontario regarding Post Stroke Treatment and Alleged Age Discrimination
- Accessibility is Their Final Frontier: Fed
- Mike Hammer Solves The AODA Courage Mystery
- Ontario to Reduce Enforcement of Accessibility Law
- Despite Mayo Moran Independent Review Report Recommending that Ontario Should Beef Up Enforcement, the Wynne Government Plans to Cut Back on Enforcement of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Even Though Violations of this Law Remain Rampant Among Private Sector Organizations with At Least Twenty Employees
- Letting Down Ontario’s Disabled: Editorial
- Accessibility News February 28,2015 Update
- Cities Unlocked
- Mike Hammer Solves The AODA Courage Mystery, Part Two:
- 12th Newspaper Editorial since 1998 Backs Our Accessibility Campaign
- Why Online Ed Accessibility is not a “When We Get to It” Issue
- Bus Stop Call-Outs on B.C. Transit, or Lack Thereof
- NFP Q&A: Understanding Ontario’s Accessible Websites and Web Content Requirements
- Ontario Must Create Panel to Review the Current Practice of Age Discrimination Against Stroke Patients
- Accessibility News March 7,2015 Update
- Fedora Outlier LLC Blazes a Trail in Assistive Technology Teaching for the Blind and Deaf-Blind with its iOS Master Series
- U.S. Aims To Speed Up The Internet For The Disabled
- NFP Q&A: Understanding Ontario’s Accessible Websites And Web Content Requirements – Part 2
- Province Abandoning Ontarians With Disabilities
- Still More Great Media Coverage and NDP Critic’s Response Against Ontario Government Plans to Cut Back on Already-Inadequate AODA Enforcement
- Working Wisdom: How Workers With Disabilities Give Companies an Edge
- Mike Hammer And The Ontario Government Courage Mystery, Part Three
- Campus Barriers Unacceptable
- Accessibility News March 14,2015 Update
- 86 Modern Accessible Transit Buses Coming to 13 Ontario Municipalities
- Mike Hammer Cracks The AODA Cowardice Case: Part Four
- Building University-Wide IT Accessibility
- Government of Canada Invests to Improve Workplace Diversity in the Canadian Logistics, Transportation and Supply Chain Sectors
- The evils of captcha explained by a blind person
- Mapping an Accessible TTC
- Accessibility Progress Slow at Queen’s
- Accessibility News March 21,2015 Update
- Call the New Ontario Government Toll-Free Line to Report AODA Violations – We Campaigned Over Two Years to Win This Toll-Free Number!
- Ontario Government Considers How To Sell Access Law
- Fake ‘Service Dog’ ID Brought to Heel by Proposed B.C. Law
- Government Reinstates Disabled Worker’ Paper-Shredding Jobs
- Disability Advocates Question Toronto Parapan Am Games Readiness
- Tips on Barrier Removal
- As ADA Turns 25, Places of Public Accommodation Must Consider Accessible Technology
- Improving Online Accessibility for Students a Major Issue for Schools
- Town Learns About Alternative to Public Transit System
- Amazing Media Coverage of More Toronto Restaurants Refusing Blind Customers with Guide Dogs Shows Toronto Is Not Ready to Host 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Accessibility News March 28,2015 Update
- Making Accessibility Standards Work for Durham Businesses
- Toronto’s Bermuda Triangle For Access
- Accessibility at Microsoft: More Challenges than Victories
- Disability Laws Are Overwhelming Small Employers in Ontario, Canada Says Employment Lawyer Doug MacLeod
- Media Reports that a Guelph Children’s Play Centre Refused to Accommodate A Child with Cerebral Palsy
- Life in the Instant World for Those Who Must Wait
- Christine Elliott Takes Action To Ensure Fairness For Ontarios Post-Stroke Patients
- Accessibility News April 4,2015 Update
- Ontario Launches Grand Experiment To Teach People About Access!
- Taking The Social Model of Disability Online
- Manitoba’s Vulnerable Persons Act: Only a select few protected
- Service Animal Laws Challenged in Arizona
- The Deaf-Blind Dilemma
- Accessibility Laws Not Enforced:Advocates
- Proposed Changes to the AODA Customer Service Standard
- Yet More Superb Media Coverage of the Need for the Wynne Government to Strengthen Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and of the Accessibility Barriers that Persist in the Lead-Up to the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Accessibility News April 11,2015 Update
- Be Warned: The Weakest Column Yet
- OPP Launches Text 911 Service for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Speech Impaired
- Netflix Makes a Blind Superhero Accessible to Blind Audiences
- Please Use and Widely Circulate the AODA Alliance’s New Action Kit Which We Unveil Today
- When Take It To The Streets Was Born Part 1
- DRA Achieves Victory in Scribd Case: Internet-Based Companies Must Comply with the ADA
- LabCorp Offers eSSENTIAL Accessibility App to Make It Easier for People with Disabilities to Manage Health Care Online
- Accessibility News April 18,2015 Update
- Helen Left a Proud Legacy
- The Magic Behind The Disappearing AODA Complaint Line
- Comcast Unveils Talking TV Guide For Visually Impaired
- Dieppe Will Remove Roundabout After Human Rights Complaint
- The “Well” in Welfare
- Aylmer Runner Gaston Bedard Competes on World Stage
- Accessibility News April 25,2015 Update
- PetSmart Accused of Discrimination Against the Blind in New Civil Suit
- Ontario Government Uses Moran Report!
- You Don’t Look Blind
- Pan Am Games Will Not Fulfill AODA Promises
- The AODA Alliance’s Detailed Analysis of the Final Report of the Mayo Moran Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- The AODA Alliance’s Detailed Analysis of the Final Report of the Mayo Moran Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News May 2,2015 Update
- Kelsey Le Coure Denied Taxi Ride Because of Service Dog
- Wheelchair Users Upset City Council Might Put Taxi Reforms Into Reverse
- Ten New Toronto Paralympic Events
- UK Political Parties Should Put Web Accessability at the Top of Their Digital Agendas
- Apple To Receive AFB’s Helen Keller Achievement Award
- Ontario Kids Suffering Mental Illness Must Wait More Than a Year for Treatment
- AODA Alliance Marks Tenth Anniversary of the Legislatures Historic Unanimous Passage of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act by Issuing a News Release and Official Statement Calling for the Government to Release a Detailed Plan to Ensure Ontario Reaches Full Accessibility by 2025
- Accessibility News May 9,2015 Update
- Only Pollyanna Celebrates AODA’S Tenth Anniversary
- Parental Enabling – Avoiding The Parent/Child Trap
- Barb Turnbull’s Inspiring Spirit Lives On
- Honouring the Memory of Barb Turnbull – A Champion for Accessibility for People with Disabilities
- Students Create 3D Printed Tactile Map of Campus for Visually Impaired
- In the Wake of the AODA’s 10th Anniversary, Accessibility Comes up in the Legislature’s Question Period, in the 2015 Ontario Budget and in More Recent Media Coverage
- Accessibility News May 16,2015 Update
- P.T. Barnum’s Secret AODA Advice Revealed
- Ontario Rethinks Complex Disability Reviews; Advocates Say Unwieldy System Wastes Public Funds and Puts Vulnerable at Risk
- Refusing Service to Customer With a Dog
- Jim McEwen at Queens Park to Raise Concerns of Age Discrimination Against Ontario Post-Stroke Patients Between 20 and 64
- Please Support Barrier-Free Canada – A New Disability Coalition that Advocates for a nation-wide Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Human Rights Protection: How far have we come?
- Message from Interim Chief Commissioner Ruth Goba: Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Chief Commissioner Endorses the AODA Alliance’s Call to Ensure a Legacy of Improved Tourism/ Hospitality Accessibility for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Accessibility News May 23,2015 Update
- Province Must Spend More to Show Manitobans With Disabilities Where the Heart is: At Home
- How Technological Developments Are Improving The Lives Of The Disabled
- Is Your Restaurant Pan Am or Para Pan Am Games Ready?
- Accessible Ramp to be Installed at Meaford Hall
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Minister Duguid Stumped
- Alert: Websites as Places of Public Accommodation: DOJ Settlement May Extend Accessibility Requirements to Virtual Space
- Ontario Moving Forward with Accessibility Certification Program
- How the Ontario Government Should Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Advocates Calling for Official Government ID for Service Dogs
- Accessibility News May 30,2015 Update
- Another DOJ Action Over Allegedly Inaccessible Websites and Other Technologies
- Minister Duguid Explores Options
- Student Projects in Accessible Design Win Top Two Spots in IDeA Competition
- Consumer Movement of the Blind Targets Canadian Government and Regulated Organizations Over Consumer Access
- Ontario to Crack Down on Accessibility Violators
- Ontario Government Announces Measures to Implement Recommendations of 2014 Moran AODA Independent Review
- NDP MPP Percy Hatfield Introduces a Private Members Bill into the Ontario Legislature to Make it Easier for Businesses to Make Their Premises Accessible to Customers and Employees with Disabilities
- Accessibility News June 6,2015 Update
- More and More Media Coverage of Our Accessibility Campaign During National Access Awareness Week
- New Ontario Access Action Plan: George Orwell Comments
- National Survey Demonstrates That People with Disabilities are Striving to Work and Overcoming Barriers
- AODA Alliance Chair Files New Freedom of Information Application with the Ontario Government Ministry Responsible for Implementing and Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Deafblind Australian Makes Historic Call with Breakthrough Braille Phone
- Tribunal Hears Transit Issues
- People with Disabilities Have Lousy Access at State Websites, Including Covered California
- AODA Alliance Guest Column in the Toronto Star on the 10th Anniversary of AODA Going into Effect Emphasizes that the Wynne Government Must Do More to Get Ontario on Schedule for Full Accessibility by 2025
- Accessibility News June 13,2015 Update
- Parapan Ams a Missed Chance for T.O. Tourism
- AODA’S Fantastic Voyage
- Yet More Proof that the Wynne Government is Inexcusably Doing Nothing to Get More Restaurants, Stores and Other Tourism/Hospitality Services to Become Accessible to Customers with Disabilities Before the Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Parapan Am Games Policy Keeps Girl in Wheelchair From Having Friend Join Her in the Stands
- Windsor ‘Dragging Its Feet’ in Terms of Accessibility, Say Visually Impaired Residents
- Students Design a Facial Recognition Cane for Blind People
- Accessibility News June 20,2015 Update
- Pan Am Games App Deemed Failure by Advocates for People With Disabilities(PWD’s)
- Mike Hammer Solves Mystery of No Access Spending
- Two Preventable Accessibility Problems Facing Tourists with Disabilities Already Surfaced for the Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Ontario to Invest $6 Million in Accessibility Programs
- Dysfunction of Function, Accessibility and Inclusion
- The Life-Changing Impact of Autism Service Dogs
- Accessibility News June 27,2015 Update
- AODA Failures: Hay Fever or Summer Vacations?
- The Wave of Action on Disability Accessibility Gradually Spreads Across Canada
- DOJ Shifts Position on Web Access
- Politicians Quick to Embrace the Rights of the Homosexual Community but Drag Their Feet When it Comes to the Disabled
- Pan Am Visitors May Find Accessibility Hurdles
- Public Servants With Visual Impairments Say Government Failing Them
- Accessibility News July 4,2015 Update
- Blind Transit Riders Deserve Safe Callout System
- Access Austerity Referendum in Ontario
- Quebec Superior Court Assumes Jurisdiction Over Accessibility Class Action
- Stuck on the Sidelines
- VCH Investigation Unable To Conclude Why It Told the Truth
- Accessibility News July 11,2015 Update
- Pan Am Games Accessibility Lacking During Opening Ceremonies, Woman Says
- Film Mogul Outraged Over Accessible Seating View at Air Canada Centre
- The Federation at Seventy-Five: The Determination of Value and the Reflection of Hope
- Top Ten Ontario Government Nonpromises To People Using Walkers
- Government of Canada Improves Accessibility for Canadians With Disabilities in Manotick
- Disabled Man Upset Orléans ServiceOntario Outlet Lacks Automated Door
- Accessibility News July 18,2015 Update
- No Dogs in Shopping Carts: Service Dog Owners Hail Clarification of ADA Rules
- VCH Denies Former CEO Forced Out For Telling The Truth
- Stadium Needs to Improve Accessibility, Says Group
- Ontario Government Announces AODA World!
- B.C. Transit Buys System to Announce Greater Victoria Stops
- Internet Pioneer, Tech Maven Join Forces to Support CHS Benefit
- Guelph Transit Going to Next-Generation Stop Calling and Display System
- Gaps in Ontario’s Disability strategy Highlighted with PanAm Games
- Accessibility News July 25,2015 Update
- This Small Change Could Make a Big Difference for Accessible Technology
- The Restaurant, The Cockroach And The Gangster
- Despite All the Official Rejoicing, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Sadly Missed a Huge Chance for a Great Legacy for Ontarians with Disabilities by Failing to Increase Accessibility of Tourism/Hospitality Venues like Restaurants and Stores
- ADA at 25: Progress and Peril
- Did Canada Break a Promise to Its Disabled Citizens?
- Toronto Man With Tourette’s Says He Was Kicked Out of Club Over Tic
- Rick Hansen Calls for Establishing Federal Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News August 1,2015 Update
- How Google Designs for the Blind
- Wynne Boast is a Parapan Sham
- AODA Alliance Makes Public a “Reality Check” on the Wynne Government’s August 4, 2015 News Release Re the Upcoming Toronto 2015 ParaPan American Games
- Election Campaign Coverage Begins!
- Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan Am Games Official Website Lacks Required Accessibility for People with Disabilities – Flying in the Face of Wynne Governments Claim These Are the Most Accessible ParaPan American Games Ever
- Advocates Say There Are Flaws in ‘Most Accessible Parapan Am Games Ever’ Claim
- Accessibility News August 8,2015 Update
- Accessing The Election
- Toronto 2015 Organization Confirms It’s Not Good Enough for Games Stadiums To Be Accessible
- HOCKEY INNOVATION Students design puck for visually impaired players
- George Brown student says she was denied housing over guide dog Enrolled in sign language course at college
- John Baird to Be Volunteer Adviser to Group Helping the Developmentally Disabled
- Settlements for Huronia Victims Downgraded Without Notice
- Justice Department Applies ADA Title III to Carnival’s Cruise Ships, Website, and Mobile App in a Landmark Settlement
- Accessibility News August 15,2015 Update
- Ontario Justice System ‘Punishes’ Mental Illness
- The Wall Of Unknowledge
- Blind Parapan Athletes Face More Barriers Than Most
- Parapan Am Games remind us of what is possible when barriers are removed
- Still More Media Coverage of Toronto 2015 Games Accessibility Issues As the Games Conclude
- Toronto Star Runs Guest Column by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Reflecting on Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games’ Accessibility Issues
- Accessibility News August 22,2015 Update
- During this Federal Election, Join the Call for Passage of a Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Disabled Ontario Boy Told to Stand to Prove Tall Enough to Ride Bumper Cars
- AODA: A Dog’s Breakfast!
- Advocates Want Websites Accessible to Those With Impaired, No Eyesight
- Accessibility and Transitions
- Accessibility News August 29,2015 Update
- The Election Campaign’s Fantastic Voyage
- The Business Case for Hiring People With Disabilities(PWD’s)
- Bronx Medical Facility Sued for Excluding Patients with Disabilities and Jeopardizing Their Health
- AODA Compliance for Private Sector and Not-for-Profit Employers
- EEOC Sues Neenah Paper for Disability Discrimination
- Accessibility News September 5,2015 Update
- The Three Access Worlds of Gulliver
- New Talking Scientific Calculator Breaks Down Barriers for Blind Students
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s September 16, 2015 Annual Public Forum on Accessible Transit to Recount Accessibility Barriers You Face on TTC
- Support for the Call for a Canadians with Disabilities Act During this Federal Election is Spreading
- New Affordable Tablet-Based Intelligent Game Helps Children With Learning Disabilities
- UT Arlington Libraries Become First in Texas to Digitize Disability History
- Federal Legislation to Implement UN Disability Rights Convention: Nothing About Us Without Us
- Accessibility News September 12,2015 Update
- Wheel-Trans Did NOT Accommodate Disabled Passengers During the PanAm/ParaPan Am Games
- Raymond Burr Explains Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Focus: Employers Urged to Prepare for New AODA Requirements
- Attend September 29, 2015 Toronto All Candidates’ Debate on Federal Election’s Disability Issues
- Disabled Voters Still Face Accessibility Challenges at the Polls, Advocates Say
- Commbank’s new EFTPOS “Albert”: Accessibility Short-Changed
- MUN Prof Refuses to Wear Device for Hearing Disabled Student, Cites Religious Reasons
- Accessibility News September 19,2015 Update
- To the People Who React to My Disability With ‘I’m Sorry’
- The Zombie Election
- Discriminatory Practices at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador (MUN)
- VCH Must Stop Putting Vulnerable People Into George Pearson Centre
- Use Three Great New Tools in This Federal Election to Support Passage of a Strong Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Join the Call for Passage of a Canadians with Disabilities Act!
- Accessibility News September 26,2015 Update
- Councils Set to Leave a Bad Taste in the Mouth of Disabled Event-Goers Across Australia
- Blind Parent Wins Battle for Access to Online Seattle School Resources
- How Universal Access Law Stopped The Borg And Saved The Universe
- Accommodating Mental Illness in Condos
- Breaking News in the Campaign for a Barrier-Free Canada: Federal NDP Announces It will Support Enactment of the Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Accessible Tourism – Brazil Focuses on Visually Impaired Visitors
- Is There a Place for a Crowd Funding Website Just for Accessibility?
- Accessibility News October 3,2015 Update
- A Blind Computer Software Engineer From Toronto is Giving Eyes to Those Who Can’t See
- Federal Liberal party Promises to Introduce Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Ontario’s Targeted Accessibility Compliance Initiative
- Clarington Taxi Law Updated for Accessibility
- Advocate Fights for More Accessibility at Federal Election Polling Stations
- The Passport of Dorian Gray
- From Here to Eternal Waiting: Why is Sight-Impairment Still a Health Hazard at the Pharmacy Counter, Well Into the 21st Century?
- Accessibility News October 10,2015 Update
- Voters With Disabilities Face Challenges at Polls, Advocates Say
- The Earth Martian
- Toronto to Stage International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference in 2017
- DOJ Puts Pressure on Schools and Ed Techs to Provide Accessible Educational Technology
- Opening the Web to the Disabled
- AODA – New Deadlines Are Fast Approaching, And So Is A Compliance Audit
- Full Accessibility of Voting in the October 19, 2015 Federal Canadian Election Remains an Unacceptable Uncertainty for Voters with Disabilities
- Accessibility News October 17,2015 Update
- Deaf Metis Woman Wins Human Rights Case Against UBC, St. Pauls Hospital
- IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon Create Open Platform to Help the Blind Navigate Surroundings
- New Database Launched to Help Those With Autism Find Work
- Ryerson University Takes Innovative Approach to Accessibility Challenge
- Uber Launches Service for Disabled Passengers in London
- WordPress for Badeyes: A Beginners Guide Revised
- Accessibility News October 24,2015 Update
- Not All Disabled are Created Equal
- United Airlines Criticized After Man With Cerebral Palsy DArcee Neal Forced To Crawl Off Plane
- 3D Printing Creates Major Breakthrough for Blind People
- 11 Major Companies to Promote Inclusion of Persons With Disabilities in the Workplace
- AODA Audit Blitz for Retail Organizations
- Accessibility News October 31,2015 Update
- Parents Praise Moves to Include Kids With Disabilities in Media
- Blind Taxi User Was Doubly Victimized
- Wynne Government Commendably Announces Targeted AODA Enforcement Blitz on Workplace Barriers Aimed at Large Retail Establishments in Ontario
- Fake Cover Letters Expose Discrimination Against Disabled
- Manitoba’s New Accessibility Rules Welcomed by Disability-Rights Advocate
- Wait Lists Growing for Autism Treatment in Ontario
- Premier Kathleen Wynne Promised The Most Open Government In Canada, But Her Economic Development Ministry Asks AODA Alliance Chair to Pay $4,200 To Fully Answer His June 4, 2015 Freedom Of Information Application On The Implementation And Enforcement Of The Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News November 7,2015 Update
- Cornwall a Leader on Accessibility Front
- Sheltered Workshops a Blessing for Developmentally Challenged or Slave Labour?
- Deaf Advocates Angered Over Key Appointment
- Independent Living Canada: Open Letter to Prime Minister Trudeau
- Insights: Ontario Launches Workplace Accessibility Compliance Audits
- CNIB Seeks Government Money, But Won’t Comment on Missing Funds
- Talking Buses to Help Those With Disabilities
- Adult Autism Services Press Release
- Accessibility News November 14,2015 Update
- Discrimination Neither Inconvenient Nor Frivolous
- Inclusion More Common At Charter Schools, Report Finds
- Help Develop Ontario’s Accessibility Certification Program
- NDP Demands Liberal Government Enforce Accessibility Law for Ontarians With Disabilities
- Head-Mounted Virtual Reality Could Help People With Autism Learn Social Skills and Develop Employment Opportunities
- Proposed Ontario Changes to Accessibility Regulations
- Wynne Government Seeks Public Feedback on Its Proposals to Amend Two Accessibility Standards that Would Do Little for People with Disabilities But would Break an Important Promise to Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility News November 21,2015 Update
- U.S. Department of Justice Further Delays ADA Title III Rulemaking on Website Accessibility
- Blind Girl, Seven, Banned From Using White Stick at School as it is ‘Health and Safety Risk’
- Should the Wynne Government Create a Private Accessibility Certification Process?
- Campus Group Works to Enhance Statewide Instructional Accessibility Goals
- Accessibility News November 28,2015 Update
- Province: Sheltered Workshops on Way Out; Announcing Plan to Close Facilities Permanently, Minister Hails ‘New Era’ for ‘Fantastic Population’
- Junk Lawsuits Explode on Web
- Wearable Tech to Decode Sign Language
- The AODA Alliance Issues a News Release about Newly-Secured Government Documents that Show the Wynne Government Continues With Paltry Enforcement of Ontarios Disabilities Act, Despite Three Years of Rampant Private Sector Violations and 1.3 Million Dollars Left Unspent that Could Buy Lots More Enforcement
- Half of Canadians Accept Job Disability Discrimination
- Guelph Study Identifies Job Barriers for Graduates With Disabilities
- No One With a Disability Should Be Made to Feel Invisible
- U of T Startups Build a More Inclusive and Accessible Toronto
- Accessibility News December 5,2015 Update
- The AODA Alliance Writes Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid to Request Important Information Regarding the Wynne Government’s Consultation on its Problematic Proposal to Establish a Private Accessibility certification Process in Ontario
- Badeyes Launches Second Online Book in Its “WordPress for Badeyes” Series!
- European Commission Publishes the European Accessibility Act
- “Missing in Action: Disability Policy and Persons with Disabilities”
- Air Canada Ordered to Stop Forbidding Deaf-Blind People From Flying Solo
- A Victoria Resident is Challenging a Ruling by the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal, After a Local Taxi Company Allegedly Discriminated Against Him by Refusing to Transport Him and His Guide Dog
- Accessibility News December 12,2015 Update
- Thousands of Ontario Businesses Missing Accessibility Deadlines
- NECC Explores Accessibility at December Event
- Lawsuit Challenges Discriminatory Charge For Wheelchair Accessible Taxi Service
- Master WordPress With This 3 in 1 Accessible Online Book!
- Ontario Appoints New Chair to Lead Accessibility Advisory Council
- Please Let the Wynne Government Know If You Support the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Submission on the Government’s Problematic Proposed Amendments to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard and the 2011 Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation
- Accessibility News December 19,2015 Update
- Why Some Disability Advocates are Worried About A National Disability Act
- Hearing Aid Compatibility for Wireless Voice Technology
- Is the Company’s Website Accessible to Individuals With Disabilities?
- CCD Chairperson’s Update – November – December 2015
- Universal Washroom Standards
- Accessibility News December 26,2015 Update
- EEOC Sues McDonald’s for Disability Discrimination
- Lawsuits Rise: Blind Plaintiffs Sue Additional Retailers for Website Accessibility/ADA Claims
- January 2016 Accessibility Requirements Need Attention Now
- People, Power, and Pelf
- Accessibility News January 2,2016 Update
- Canadian and American Visually Impaired Research Participants Needed
- The High Cost of Digital Discrimination: Why Companies Should Care About Web Accessibility
- AODA Compliance for 2016 – Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Modern Technology and Software is Helping to Empower Students With Dyslexia, 3 Ways How
- Report Calls for New Name, New Rules for Handi Transit
- Wynne Government Extends Time For Feedback on Troubling Proposed changes to Accessibility Standards, But Doesnt Publicize This Extension
- Accessibility News January 9,2016 Update
- City of Toronto Grapples with Accessible Parking Permit Abuse
- Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Kent State University to Resolve Allegations of Discrimination in University-Operated Student Housing
- York Student Wins Mental-Health Fight; University Will No Longer Require Medical Diagnosis Before Providing Academic Accommodations
- What is the Difference Between Accessible, Usable, and Universal Design?
- Human Rights Commission Takes Disabled Voter’s Case to Court
- Advocate Pushes Gas Station Aid for Disabled People
- Accessibility News January 16,2016 Update
- Wynne Government Refuses to Waive Its $4,250 Fee for Fully Answering AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofskys Freedom of Information Application Seeking Important Government Records on the AODAs Implementation and Enforcement
- Is My Company’s Website Accessible?
- Fitness Technology That Helps the Blind Get Moving
- Will New Accessible Parking Permits Combat Abuse?
- Justice Department Reaches Landmark Settlement Agreement with State of Oregon Regarding Americans with Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News January 23,2016 Update
- Don’t Ask for Guide-Dog Documents
- Bill Would Require Restaurant Menus in Braille
- Winnipeg Man Who Seeks Death, Not Disability, a ‘Sad’ Reality
- Toronto Star Reports on Massive Private Sector Violations of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Law and Continued Weak Enforcement – Wynne Governments Reported Response Is Quite Troubling
- Watchdog Pushed to Probe WSIB; Medical Advice From Doctors Routinely Ignored, Advocates say
- OHRC Report Strongly Links Mental Illness to Poverty, Unemployment
- Accessibility News January 30,2016 Update
- Student Designers Make Spaces, Products More Accessible
- AODA Alliance Sends the Deloitte Company its Submission on the First Phase of the Deloitte Company’s Public Consultation on the Wynne Government’s Problem-Ridden Proposal to Fund a New Private Accessibility Certification Process
- Is Your Website Accessible to Blind and Visually Impaired?
- New year, New Accessibility Obligations
- NAD and Gogo LLC Agree to Make Closed Captions Available on In-Flight Entertainment Systems
- So Much For Accessibility in Ontario
- The Wynne Government Gives the Public up to March 14, 2016 to Comment on the Text of Proposed Regulations that Would Revise Ontario Accessibility Standards
- How FMs Can Support Employment Standards
- Accessibility News February 6,2016 Update
- Changing With Need: Adapting Living Space for Homeowners Will Reduce Mobility
- Accessibilize Quebec
- Proposed Rulemaking Updates Nondiscrimination and Equal Opportunity Regulations of Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
- Did You Live Somewhere On The List Below?
- Government Email Reveals Wynne Government is Paying Deloitte A Staggering $415,000 to Consult on a Proposal to Establish a Private Accessibility Certification Process
- New Accessible Tram Stops Not On the Level for Those Most In Need in Melbourne
- One Year Ago Today the Wynne Government Released the Report of the Mayo Moran Independent Review of Ontarios Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News February 13,2016 Update
- Kessler Foundation and NJIT Secure $5M Grant to Study Wearable Robots
- New Yorkers with Disabilities Are Denied Equitable Access to the Citys Sidewalks
- Human Rights Commission Releases Decision Related to Service Animal Legislation
- Toronto Officials Lay Down the Law on New Sidewalks
- Ontario Simplifies Medical Reviews for People on Disability Support
- Police Unveil Text-to-911 Service for Hearing Impaired
- AODA Alliance Immediate NEWS RELEASE
- Accessibility News February 20,2016 Update
- Class Action Lawsuit Challenges AMC’s Discrimination Against Blind Movie-Goers
- Accessible Demands
- Innovative ‘IDeAs’ Wanted for Making Ontario More Accessible
- Halton Hills, It’s Time To Walk the Talk
- Braille Maps for Blind and Visually Impaired Created with 3-D Printing Technology at Rutgers
- AODA Alliance Action Kit: “Picture Our Barriers” Action Kit
- Accessibility News February 27,2016 Update
- AODA Alliance Update: Accessibility Forums
- A.G. Schneiderman Secures Broad Agreement To Ensure Accessibility For People With Disabilities At New York’s Largest Shopping Malls
- Ryerson Graduate Creates App to Make the World More Accessible
- Ottawa’s Accessibility Rules Need More Common Sense: Critics
- Governmental Entities Should Identify and Remove Potential ADA Accessibility Barriers on their Websites
- Watch AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Tonight at 8 or 11 PM
- National Federation of the Blind and Amazon Join Forces to Improve Accessible Reading Experiences for Blind and Low-Vision Students
- Send Us Feedback on Our Latest Draft Brief to the Wynne Government on Proposed Revisions to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Accessibility News March 5,2016 Update
- Surfing the Web Should be Easier for the Blind
- Wearable Mobility Device for the Blind and Visually Impaired Being Developed by Toyota
- Leader Patrick Brown Urges the Premier to Properly Fund Mental Health
- Justice Department Settles Disability-Based Housing Discrimination Lawsuit with Owners and Developers of 71 Apartment Complexes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee
- AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Files Appeal to the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner
- 20 European NGOs Tell EU Ministers ‘No One Should Be Left Behind’
- Accessibility News March 12,2016 Update
- Wheelchair Accessible Uber: The Dirty Truth
- De Blasio Expands NYC’s Access for People With Disabilities
- Send Us Your Feedback on a New Discussion Paper that Offers Ideas on What the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act Could Include
- Technology is Failing to Meet the Needs of Older People With Hearing and Sight Problems, Report Finds
- Nine Years after the Ontario Government Promises to Review All Ontario Laws for Accessibility Barriers, the Wynne Government Proposes Modest Legislative Changes to 11 Laws , To Be Fast-Tracked Through the Legislature
- Canadian Museum Presents Exhibit That Blind People Can “See”
- Please Tell the Wynne Government if You Support the List of Readily-Achievable Improvements to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard that the AODA Alliance and ARCH Disability Law Centre Have Jointly Submitted to the Economic Development Minister
- Accessibility News March 19,2016 Update
- More Businesses Face Lawsuits Challenging Website Accessibility
- Yes, She’s Really Disabled: Woman Harassed for Using Parking Spot
- Ontario Government ‘Hypocritical on Mental Health’: Brown
- Federal Communication Commission(FCC) Strengthens Captioning Rules to Enhance Accessibility to Video Programming on TV
- Blind Man Says He Was Tackled, Arrested After White Cane Mistaken for Weapon
- Facebook Taps Artificial Intelligence for Users With Disabilities
- Federal Budget Commits to Creating a Canadians With Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News March 26,2016 Update
- Judgment for Blind Plaintiff in Website Disability Case
- Digging Deeper ‘It’s Like Playing Russian Roulette:’ The Fight for Accessibility in Regina
- Federal Budget Commits to Creating a Canadians With Disabilities Act
- Invitation to official launch of Barrier-Free BC – April 6, 2016
- Web Accessibility for People Living with a Hearing Disability
- Come to the April 12, 2016 Mississauga Accessibility Public Forum
- New Federal Budget Commits 2 Million Dollars to Federal Government Consultation on the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act in 2016-17
- Why You Should Use Twitter’s New Accessibility Feature for Blind Users – Even If You’re Not Blind
- Accessibility News April 2,2016 Update
- Families ‘Devastated’ by Changes to Ontario Autism Program
- The Wynne Government Wants the AODA Alliance to Volunteer its Time to Give Input on its Flawed Proposal for a Private Accessibility Certification Process
- Properties Must Be Accessible to People with Disabilities Before Occupancy Federal Court Rules
- Ontario Decides to Give First Responders Workplace Insurance Coverage for PTSD
- ADVANCING INCLUSION FOR 25 YEARS
- Barrier-Free BC Urges Provincial Government to ‘Just Say Yes’ to a British Columbians with Disabilities Act
- A Lot More Needs To Be Done To Help Blind People Use The Internet
- Accessibility News April 9,2016 Update
- Barrier-Free Ballot Boxes
- Why Canadian Companies Can’t Ignore the Cost of Mental Illness
- Study: Most K-12 Online Learning Content Does Not Meet Needs of Students With Disabilities
- Mobility Plays Important Role In Development for Toddlers With Disabilities
- Netflix to Enhance Access for Customers Who Are Blind
- New York City Enacts Accessibility Standards for Government Websites
- Parents Rally at Queen’s Park to Keep Schools for Blind, Deaf and Special Needs Open
- Accessibility News April 16,2016 Update
- Important Information About the Schedule 1 Lawsuit, Clegg v. Ontario
- Put Ministry of Health in Charge of Inmates’ Health Care, John Howard Society Says
- Major Gaps in Ontario Disability Act When it Comes to Service Dogs
- Despite Ongoing Issues, Ontario Plans to Reduce Small Business Accessibility Requirements
- The Blind Leading the Blind: How Berkeley Alums Are Designing an Inclusive World
- Even More Media Coverage of Problems with Accessible Customer Service in Ontario
- Accessibility News April 23,2016 Update
- Cuts Make for Lost Generation: Critics
- CRA Hurting Disabled Canadians, Advocates Say
- Mertl: Here are 10 Reasons to Hire Workers With Disabilities
- Family Protests Airline’s Rejection of Special Seat for Son Who Has Cerebral Palsy
- YMCA of Greater Toronto Opens Its Most Accessible Centre Yet
- FCC Adopts Real-Time Text Proposed Rulemaking
- Accessibility News April 30,2016 Update
- Fumbling at the Top; Ontario Welfare
- National Federation of the Blind Condemns Delay of Web Accessibility Regulations
- Groundbreaking Settlement to End Discrimination Against Blind Uber Riders Who Use Guide Dogs
- EEOC Sues KB Staffing For Disability Discrimination
- Web Accessibility Will Now Be the Law of the Land in Europe
- Malhotra and Lieffers: Assisted Dying? Let’s Talk About Accessible Living First
- Accessibility News May 7,2016 Update
- HUD FILES HOUSING DISCRIMINATION CHARGE AFTER KANSAS WOMAN TOLD TO MOVE TO HOUSING ‘DESIGNED FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS’
- Libs Spend Tens of Millions – But Not On Autism
- Pedestrian crossing curbs need to be cut down to size: The Fixer
- Wynne Government Makes Limited Accessibility Amendments to 11 of Ontarios 750 Statutes, but Unjustifiably Rejects 11 Additional Accessibility Amendments the NDP Proposed at Our Request
- University Students Earn Top Prizes for Accessible Designs at 2016 IDeA Competition
- CSA Group Announces Harmonization of Accessibility Standard with Canadian National Building Code
- Accessibility News May 14,2016 Update
- Seventy Per Cent of Websites Are Breaking the Law on Accessibility – Here’s How and Why That Needs to Change
- Thornhill MPP Takes on Accessible Parking Issue
- Financial Status Affects Success of Students With Learning Disabilities
- Expert Behind Ontario Autism Decisions Speaks Out
- Wheelchair Bound Bolton Woman with MS Wants Call to Action on Accessibility
- Accessibility Online: A Neglected Frontier for People With Disabilities
- Accessibility News May 21,2016 Update
- System Abuses Make Booking a Flight With a Service Dog a Frustrating Ordeal
- MPP Called Cops on Mother of Autistic Kid
- Demographic Demands: The Business Case for Diversity
- Why Ontario’s Autism Debate Drives Parents To Rage And Tears
- Social Media for Those With a Disability Gets 2016 Update
- Mentally Ill Deserve Fair Access To Disability Tax Credits
- Accessibility News May 28,2016 Update
- People With Disabilities Unite to Create Buzz on Political Fronts
- For Torontonians with Disabilities, Riding the TTC is Still A Struggle
- On Universal Design: How Businesses Can Benefit From Boosting Accessibility
- Government of Canada Reduces Barriers to Accessibility Through Call for Proposals
- Canada: January 1 2017 Deadline For AODA Compliance
- Understanding of Accessibility Continues to Thrive
- Accessibility News June 4,2016 Update
- Increasing Legal Scrutiny of Website Accessibility in the Real Estate Industry
- New Ontario Accessibility Rules Inadequate: Critic
- Local MPP Introduces Private Member’s Bill for Service Dogs in Public Places
- Premier Wynne Breaks Important Promise to 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities to Never Weaken Any Protections We’d Won under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Canadian Transportation Agency Launches Consultation on Accessible Transportation as Phase 1 of Its Regulatory Modernization Initiative
- More Reflections on Premier Wynne’s Breaking Her Promise Not to Weaken Protections We’ve Won In or Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News June 11,2016 Update
- Wearable Device to Guide People With Vision Disabilities
- Premier Wynne Appoints Tracy MacCharles as Ontario’s First Minister of Accessibility for 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- ACTION LINE: How consumers with a disability can encounter prejudice, discrimination
- WSIB Critics Say Spending Cuts are ‘Devastating’ Injured Workers
- Schedule 1 Class Action Claims Period Has Started
- Cyclists Using Sidewalks Leaves Blind Woman Scared for Safety:
- Nominet Launches Free IoT Solution to Help Those With Sensory and Cognitive Impairments
- Alliance of Advocates Calls for Mandatory Disability Access in New Homes
- Ramp Up 2016 Aims to Double Number of Accessible Ramps in Ontario
- Accessibility News June 18,2016 Update
- Reasonable Accommodation Includes Electronic Accessibility
- iCanConnect: A National Program Bringing People Together through Accessible Communications Technology and Training
- What Does an Accessible Canada Mean to You?
- Ontario Missing Mark on Accessibility Standards, Activist Says
- Toronto Star Reports on Wynne Government Weakening the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- The Disabled Face Significant Obstacles to Voting in America’s Political System, Stanford Expert Finds
- Accessibility News June 25,2016 Update
- Legislation Will Improve Access to Copyrighted Materials for Visually Impaired and Print-Disabled Canadians
- Apparel Causes Additional Barriers for People Living with Disabilities
- Deaf-Blind Housing Project Will Be 1st of Its Kind in Manitoba
- NuEyes, the Newest Head-Mounted and Hands-Free Wearable Technology, Makes CCTV and Text-to-Speech Capabilities Available in an Easy-to-Use Headset
- TTC Wheel-Trans services are changing
- Extra 10 Seconds at Lights for Pedestrians Along Algonquin/101
- Education Department Settles Civil Rights Complaints Over Accessible Websites
- Disabilities Charity AbilityNet Calls on UK Government to Enforce Web Accessibility
- Accessibility News July 2,2016 Update
- Positive Changes to the Ontario Disability Support Program’s Medical Review Process
- CNE Cancels Free Admission for People With Disabilities
- Geauga County Public Library Adds Technology to Aid Hearing Impaired
- Wynne Government Holds Unneeded “Pre-Consultation on Health Care Accessibility Barriers, Before It Sets Up Standards Development Committee to Consult on Health Care Accessibility Barriers
- Firm Fined $266K for Harassment of Deaf Employee
- Air Canada Innovates to Make In-Flight Entertainment Systems Accessible for Vision-Impaired Customers
- Accessibility in the Workplace – A Competitive Edge
- Accessibility News July 9,2016 Update
- Gananoque Disbands Accessibility Advisory Committee
- Governments are toughening up on public sector web accessibility
- TTC Investigating After Frustrated Man in Wheelchair Faces Off With Bus After Lengthy Wait
- Blind Man Denied Service From Uber Over Guide Dog
- United Airlines Earns Top Marks on Disability Equality Index
- City MTA Adds 70 Wheelchair-Accessible MV-1 Vehicles to Paratransit Fleet
- EHRC Announces Its Newest Project to Support Those With Disabilities in the Workplace
- Accessibility News July 16,2016 Update
- 4 Reasons Why Accessibility Needs to be Part of Your Plan Right From the Start
- 32 ‘urgent issues’ for minister
- Concert Goers Criticize Bluesfest’s Accessibility Policy
- City Boosts LIMO Transit Service to Better Serve Ridership
- Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act, 2005, Part I: Is Your Business Subject to the Laws Customer Service Standards? The Answer May Surprise You.
- StopGap Founder Wins Jane Jacobs Prize
- Accessibility News July 23,2016 Update
- Update on the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- EnAbling Change: Accessible Playspaces
- New sign language interpreting rules in effect in Michigan
- Conflicting Accessible Parking Signs Cause Confusion at Algonquin College
- U.S. Department of Education Releases Guidance On Civil Rights of Students with ADHD
- Accessibility News July 30,2016 Update
- Changes to Ontario’s Accessible Customer Service Standard are Now in Effect
- Call-Out System Helps Bus Riders
- Man Denied Air Canada Flight Due to the Size of His Wheelchair
- Planning Accessible Events
- Attorney General(AG) Healey and National Federation of the Blind Announce Agreement to Make Health Care Kiosks Accessible to Blind Consumers
- PHARMACEUTICAL INNOVATION LTD. EXTENDS PRODUCT LINE OFFERING WITH NEW APPLICATION, HEALTH ESPRESSO
- Tell Us What Accessibility Barriers You Have Faced in Ontario’s Health Care System We’re Preparing a Brief for the Wynne Government
- Employment for People With Disabilities is Dire
- Accessibility News August 6,2016 Update
- Action Kit for Raising Disability Accessibility Issues in the September 1, 2016 Ontario By-election in Scarborough-Rouge River
- Struggle Ongoing for People with Service Dogs
- Ontario Won’t Close Schools for Deaf and Blind Children
- Please Circulate the AODA Alliance’s News Release Responding to the Wynne Government’s Announcement on School Supports for Students with Disabilities
- Accessibility Advocates Tweet Their Barriers
- The Toronto Star Gives Great Coverage to the AODA Alliances “Picture Our Barriers” Social Media Campaign – Join In the Blitz
- Virtual Schools Need to Serve Students With Disabilities – Education Officials
- Accessibility News August 13,2016 Update
- Disabled T.O. Traveler Considers Lawsuit After Air Canada Unable to Accommodate Wheelchair
- The Top Five Mistakes That Exclude People From Your Event and How to Fix Them
- Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief to the Wynne Government’s “Pre-Consultation” on Health Care Accessibility Barriers Facing Patients with Disabilities
- New Book Released: Tapping Into Hidden Human Capital: How Leading Global Companies Improve their Bottom Line by Employing Persons with Disabilities
- Pedestrian Crossover to Be Installed in Waterdown
- UMMS Works to Improve Web Text for People With Cognitive Disabilities
- Accessibility News August 20,2016 Update
- Becoming Disabled
- Paralyzed Edmonton Toddler a Whiz in Homemade Wheelchair
- Righting a Wrong
- The Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario Calls On the Wynne Government to Agree to Create an Education Accessibility Standard Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Australia Adopts New Standard for ICT Accessibility in Procurement
- How Accessibility is Driving Innovation in Canada
- Tell the Wynne Government If You Support the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on health Care Accessibility Barriers that We Submitted to the Government’s “Pre-Consultation”
- Watchdog Hammers Ontario’s ‘Hands-Off Stance’ with Adults with Autism, Down Syndrome
- Accessibility News August 27,2016 Update
- The New Democratic Party’s Candidate in the September 1, 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River By-election Answered the AODA Alliance’s Questionnaire on Disability Accessibility Issues
- Blind MP to Draft Canada’s First National Accessibility Law
- The Conservative Candidate in the September 1, 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River By-election Answered the AODA Alliance’s Questionnaire on Disability Accessibility Issues, After We Made Public that Only the NDP Candidate Had Responded
- These Are The Hidden Costs Of Living With A Disability
- The Liberal Party’s Candidate in the September 1, 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River By-election Answers the AODA Alliance’s Accessibility Questionnaire
- Traffic Lights on Highway 101 to be Adjusted to Give People More Time to Cross
- Finding Refuge With the Skin I’m In
- Accessibility News September 3,2016 Update
- New Research Finds Demand for More Disability Sport News
- Ontario Parents Worry About Special Education Support
- Mississauga Woman Refused Treatment at Two Clinics Due to Service Dog
- Improving Pathways to Transit for Persons with Disabilities
- Upcoming Accessibility Public Forums in Ottawa, London and Whitby – and Let the Wynne Government Know by This Friday If You Support the AODA Alliance’s Brief on Health Care Accessibility Barriers
- Accessibility Awards: Nominate Someone Who Improves the Quality of Life for People With Disabilities
- Accessibility News September 10,2016 Update
- Top UN Officials Highlight How Paralympic Games Show That Ability, Not Disability, Defines a Person’s Accomplishments
- Hurt Workers Forced Into ‘Humiliating’ Jobs
- Premier Wynne’s Throne Speech Offers 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Nothing new
- Ailing Senior Says Greyhound Gave Her a Rough Ride
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s September 15, 2016 Annual Public Forum on Accessible Transit to Recount Accessibility Barriers You Face on TTC
- MPP Coe Introduces Legislation to End Age Discrimination Against Stroke Patients
- TTC Still Has ‘Big Ticket Items’ to Address When it Comes to Accessibility
- Expert Panel was Dismayed by Liberals’ Plan to Put Age Cap on Autism Services
- Over Two Short Days, Our Accessibility Issues Come Up Twice in Ontario’s Legislature and Also in the Toronto Star
- Accessibility News September 17,2016 Update
- Parents Say Ontario government Misled Them Over Autism Funding
- Spotlight on Wheel-Trans and AODA at TTC Accessibility Forum
- How can P.E.I. Be More Accessible for People With Disabilities?
- UN Releases General Comment on the Right to Inclusive Education
- Changes to SSAH Funding and ODSP Applications for People who Receive Developmental Services
- Government of Canada Launches Call for Proposals to Support the Social Inclusion of Canadians With Disabilities
- Course Cluster Challenges Thinking on Disability
- Tutty: Teaching Children the History of Society’s Treatment on the Disabled
- Barrier-Free Canada Update
- Accessibility News September 24,2016 Update
- Uber Canada and Canadian Hearing Society Partner to Promote Accessibility
- USBLN Technology HUB to Connect Certified Disability-Owned Businesses to Corporate Buyers
- ‘Just do it now:’ doctors encouraged to make offices accessible
- Enabling Those Who THINK They are Unable!
- New Obi™ Robotic Dining Device a Breakthrough for People Living with Physical Challenges
- Launch Today of New National Video Relay Service Empowers Canada’s Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
- New Website Answers ‘Where’s My Bus?’
- Accessibility News October 1,2016 Update
- WIPO Marrakesh Treaty Enters Into Force
- Sunny Ways? More Accessibility Legislation Coming
- Many Canadians Blind to Talents and Abilities of Job Seekers With Vision Loss
- Easterseals to Help Communities Provide Accessible Transportation for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
- Settlement Reached With Shoppers Drug Mart in BC Human Rights complaint
- Accessibility News October 8,2016 Update
- Boy Told He’d Have to Go Blind Before Health System Would Pay for Sight-Saving Surgery
- ‘Don’t Ask What’s Wrong with the Reader, What’s Wrong with the Books?’: Writing for Readers with Dyslexia
- U.S. Education Department Awards $4.4 Million to Improve Literacy and Education Outcomes for Students with Disabilities
- WCAG 2.1 Under Exploration, Comments Requested by 1 November
- Report Finds ‘Significant’ Gaps in Ontario Healthcare
- Bell Media’s Flagship Radio Station NewsTalk 1010 Newly Redesigned Website Demonstrates Why We Need Enforcement!
- Accessibility News October 15,2016 Update
- Half of World’s Children With Disabilities Are Kept Out of School, Says Report
- Feds to Clarify Rules for Service Animals on Flights
- Blind Man Says Guide Dog Ordered Out of Port Coquitlam Restaurant
- Come to Upcoming Accessibility Forums in St. Johns Newfoundland (Nov4), Burlington Ontario (Nov. 6) and Whitby Ontario (Nov. 7)
- Miami University Reaches Justice Department Consent Decree to Improve Technology Access for Students With Disabilities
- Wearable Artificial Vision Device Shows Promise in Helping People Who Are Legally Blind ‘Read’
- Blind Ottawa Man May Resort to Begging to Cover Care Costs for Service Dog
- Disability Rights Group Sues Uber Over Wheelchair Access
- Accessibility News October 22,2016 Update
- New Research Could Help Build Better Hearing AIDS
- Free Online Course Enabling Improved Digital Accessibility
- From their perspective, photo exhibit shows life with a disability
- Waterloo Tightens Accessibility Rules for Development
- Online Public Services to be Made More Accessible for the Disabled and Elderly
- Whitby Adopts Three-Year Accessibility Plan to Continue Removing Barriers
- Accessibility News October 29,2016 Update
- Today is the 18th Anniversary of a Pivotal Milestone on the Road to Strong Ontario Disability Accessibility Legislation that Resonates to this Day in Provincial and Federal Accessibility Campaigns
- Creating Opportunities For Deaf Employees
- Action Kit for Raising Disability Accessibility Issues in the November 17, 2016 Ontario By-elections in Ottawa Vanier and Niagara West-Glanbrook
- Youth with Disabilities Advise on the Creation of an Accessible and Inclusive Canada
- Some Toronto Wheel-Trans Passengers Say They’ve Been Left at the Curb Due to New Bike Lane
- Ontario Conservatives Press Premier Wynne in the Ontario Legislature’s Question Period to Agree to the AODA Alliance’s Call for the Government to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard
- Accessible eLearning Benefits All Learners
- Accessibility News November 5,2016 Update
- AODA Alliance Offers a Preliminary Look at the Proposed New Accessibility Law that the Nova Scotia Government Tabled in the Nova Scotia Legislature Last Week
- Proud to Be Blind
- New Era for Disability Rights
- Michigan Girl and Her Service Dog Head to Supreme Court
- A Report by the KPMG Consulting Firm Prepared for the Wynne Government Confirms that There Are Recurring Accessibility Barriers in Ontario’s Education System
- Updated Accessibility Standards Coming to City of Burlington Facilities
- Next Weekend’s Whitby Accessibility Public Forum is the First AODA Alliance Community Event Since the AODA Was Passed to Be Attended by Ontario’s Minister Responsible for Implementing Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- Milton Chamber Event Focuses on AODA Legislation
- Accessibility News November 12,2016 Update
- Councillors to Review LTC Discount Fares
- Three of the Six Major Parties’ Candidates in the November 17 2016 Ottawa and Niagara By-Elections Answered the AODA Alliance’s Requests Seeking Accessibility Commitments
- Canadian Disability Act Communication and Information Round Table Discussion
- Ottawa Vanier Liberal Candidate in the November 17, 2016 By-election Nathalie Des Rosiers Answers the AODA Alliance’s Accessibility Questionnaire
- Progressive Conservative Party and Green Party Candidates in the Ottawa Vanier and Niagara West-Glanbrook November 17, 2016 By-elections Answer the AODA Alliance’s Accessibility Questionnaire
- Women and Persons With Disabilities Being Left Behind on CPP Expansion
- Press Release: CCD Says Regulations Are Necessary to Increase the Accessibility of Passenger Transportation
- How Far Has B.C. Come in Terms of Accessibility? Rick Hansen Weighs In
- Accessibility News November 19,2016 Update
- Does Canada Need a Canadians with Disabilities Act?
- Spread the Word About the AODA Alliance’s New Discussion Paper on What an Education Accessibility Standard Can and Should Include
- The World Blind Union: Future Challenges and Opportunities
- Ontario Helping Protect People with Developmental Disabilities
- BRITISH COLUMBIA: Passenger Transportation Board Approves Use of Soft Meters for Taxi Industry with Mandatory Voice Output
- CBC Expands Accessibility Project for Hearing-Impaired Audiences
- Accessibility News November 26,2016 Update
- Silent No More: Ottawa Consults on national disability act, demonstrations for disability justice remain strong
- CCD Disappointed by Electoral Reform Bill C-33
- International Day of Persons with Disability 2016
- On the 22nd Anniversary of the Birth of Ontario’s Grassroots Accessibility Law Campaign, the AODA Alliance Releases a Striking Video that Shows Significant Accessibility Problems at the Brand New Centennial College Culinary Arts Centre
- Accessible Transit ? A Daily Struggle with Accessibility Issues on the TTC
- Humber Media Program Marks New Inclusiveness
- Accessibility Lift Means a Lot: Swimmer
- Ontario and Federal Governments Announce $44 Million for New Infrastructure at Centennial College But Announce No Strings To Ensure It’s Fully Disability-Accessible
- On this International Day for People with Disabilities, We Look Back at Kathleen Wynne’s Written Promises to 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, Made Four years Ago Today, on What She’d Do on Disability Accessibility if She Became Ontario’s Premier
- Accessibility News December 3,2016 Update
- Lindsay Transit Taking Steps Toward Fully Accessible Services
- Canada Makes Further Commitment to Support Rights of Persons With Disabilities
- 22 Major Disability Organizations Send Premier Wynne an Open Letter Calling for the Wynne Government to Agree to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Breaking News: Premier Wynne has Just Announced in the Legislature that the Ontario Government Agrees to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- PC Bill Defending Stroke Patients Set to Become Law
- Elections Report Discriminates Against the Blind!
- Media Reports on Our Getting the Wynne Government to Agree to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard
- Sobey’s Hardware/Software Upgrade Denies Access to Visually Impaired Long-Term Employee
- Accessibility News December 10,2016 Update
- TransHelp Celebrates 35 Years and Prepares for Big Changes in Transit Service for Peel’s Disabled
- How to Get Help for Mental Illness in Ontario
- Your quiet hybrid is likely to make itself heard in the not-so-distant future
- City Committee Approves Changes to Transit Subsidies
- Blind Man Sets Out Alone in Google’s Driverless Car
- In Quebec, French-Language Media Aren’t Talking About Accessibility
- Chelsea Hotel, Toronto Wins Accessibility Award
- Accessibility News December 17,2016 Update
- Gravenhurst woman starts up online store to help special-needs kids, families
- No Christmas Joy for Disability Camp Supporters
- 5 Ways New Technologies are Empowering People with Disabilities
- How Do Deaf-Blind People Communicate?
- Accessible WorkPlace AODA Deadlines
- Durham Regional Council Passes 2016 Accessibility Report
- Accessibility News December 24,2016 Update
- Individuals With Disabilities More Likely to Be Employed in States With Expanded Medicaid
- London Unveils Badge Program for People With Invisible Disabilities
- Access Board Updates ADA Guidelines for Buses and Vans
- Many Ontarians With Mental-Health Issues Must Choose Between Food and Meds
- Accessibility News December 31,2016 Update
- U.S. Department of Education Releases Guidance on Civil Rights of Students with Disabilities
- New Year Should Bring Contentious Political Issues to Forefront in Peel Region
- TTC Wheel-Trans Eligibility Expands in 2017
- Accessible On-Street Residential Parking Program Now in Place
- Design Exchange and Ontario Government Announce Post-Secondary Design Competition
- Sticking with Red and Green Transit Lines ‘Offensive’ to Colour-Blind People, Says Advocate
- Accessibility News January 7,2017 Update
- 4 Reasons Why Online Education is Perfect for Students with Disabilities
- Access Denied: Woman’s Support Dog Not Recognized by Orangeville Transit
- CES 2017: Emerging Tech Aims to Improve Life for Handicapped
- THE MOST CRITICAL ELEMENT IN AN EFFECTIVE NATIONAL ACCESS and INCLUSION ACT
- Spotlight on Invisible Disabilities Project
- ODSP Cases on the Rise as Link Between Poverty and Mental Health Strengthens
- Vaughan Accessibility Activist Randy McNeil Won’t Stop Pushing Changes
- Yesterday’s Ontario’s Cabinet Shuffle Is a Step Backwards for 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility News January 14,2017 Update
- Road Scraping Leaves Residents Frustrated
- AODA Alliance Writes Tracy MacCharles to Propose Action Priorities for Her as Both Accessibility Minister and Minister of Government and Consumer Services
- Supreme Court Hears Case Today on Disabled Children and Public Schools
- Government of Canada Improves Accessibility for Canadians With Disabilities Within Their Workplaces and Communities
- CIBC Introduces New Initiative to Support Employment for Canadians Living With a Disability
- Walmart Sued After Firing Employee With Down Syndrome
- Accessibility News January 21,2017 Update
- Only Half of Disabled Canadians Have a Full or Part-Time Job: CIBC poll
- AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky to Battle the Wynne Government at a January 31 Information and Privacy Commission Public Hearing, As He Tries to Unearth Government Records on Its Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Nova Scotians Can Discuss Accessibility at Law Amendments Committee
- Can You Work in Healthcare with a Disability?
- New Self-Assessment Launching Will Help Departments Evaluate Accessibility Efforts
- Canadian Accessibility Guidelines Survey
- Accessibility News January 28,2017 Update
- Reader Concerned About Lack of Accessibility in Gemmill Park Concept Plan
- AMI Announces Scholarship Program for 2017
- David vs Goliath: Freedom of Information
- Check out the Arguments the Information and Privacy Commission Will Hear Tomorrow in AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky’s Freedom of Information Appeal Against the Wynne Government
- Accessibility Advocate Appeals Access to Information Fee
- Realizing the Promise of a New ERA for Canadians With Disabilities:
- London Not Following Accessibility Rules, Removes All Archived Council Debate Videos
- Join Us as the AODA Alliance Comes to Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge Next Week
- Accessibility News February 4,2017 Update
- Council Restores City Videos Online
- AEBC/T-Base Scholarship Program
- Proposed Manitoba Accessibility Standard for Employment
- On the Eve of Toronto Public Consultations, Canada’s Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough Offers a Glimpse Into What the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act May Include
- U.S. Access Board Releases Information and Communication Technology Standards and Guidelines
- Accessibility Improvements Completed at Ossington TTC Subway Station
- NEW DEADLINE: Schedule 1 Class Action Claims, Clegg v. Ontario
- Acceptable Identification Document Policies – Call to action!
- Liberals Revive Funding for Groups That Take Government to Court
- Federal Accessibility Minister Carla Qualtrough Gives Toronto Star Another Glimpse into Her Thinking on the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Accessibility News February 11,2017 Update
- Court Says Settlement Agreement Does Not Bar Later Website Accessibility Lawsuit by a Different Plaintiff
- Nova Scotia Accessibility Legislation Gets More Scrutiny
- Disabled Prisoners in Canada: How do They Fare?
- If Inclusion Means Everyone, Why Not Me?
- Federal Complaint Alleges School District Website ‘Inaccessible’
- SUPAC Conference on Transition Planning for Life after High School for Students with Disabilities
- Broadcasters and Disability Organisation Draw Up Common Recommendation on Future EU Rules for Audiovisual Access Services
- Yet More Great Accessibility Town Hall and Public Forum Events Coming Up Around Ontario
- Accessibility News February 18,2017 Update
- Pheon and Prosedo Mechanical Prosthetic Knees Provide Mobility and Stability for Less Active Amputees
- Bell Canada Discriminated Against Sick Woman by Making Her Go to Store: Tribunal
- Employment for Canadians With Disabilities: The MOST Unattained Dream!
- Carmody Rips Overbearing Liberal Nanny State
- Assistive Technology That’s Built Into Mobile Devices
- Accessibility News February 25,2017 Update
- Japan’s Adoption of Universal Design Ahead of Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
- Universal Design 2017 Conference NYC
- Blind Cabinet Minister Promises Canada’s First National Accessibility Legislation Will Have Teeth, Could Be Retroactive
- Accessibility Legislation Would Boost NZ’s Economy
- New Robotics Technology Brings Standing and Mobility to Wheelchair Users
- New AODA Requirements underscore maintenance
- N.S. Group for Disabled Calls Accessibility Bill Weakest in Canada
- Accessibility News March 4,2017 Update
- Accessibility News March 4,2017 Update
- Running with Gaston at the NYC Marathon
- Minister Qualtrough Reinforces the Government of Canada’s Commitment to Accessibility in an Official Visit to Australia
- Aids for Vision Loss, From Those Who’ve Been There
- TTC Expands Wheel-Trans Eligibility to Include People With Cognitive, Sensory, or Mental Health Disabilities
- Disabled Woman Sues Seven Shops in Same Street After Complaints to 28 Businesses About Access
- Alliance Seeks Input From People With Disabilities, Families About Accessibility
- Accessibility News March 11,2017 Update
- access Victory for Cornwall Mom
- ‘Essential Accessibility’ Website Rethinks The Web For People With Disabilities
- Ottawa’s Deaf Community ‘At a Loss’ Amid Canadian Hearing Society Strike
- Accessibility Services’ Transition Day
- York Region Residents With Disabilities Demand Better Accessibility
- Experts Say Rehabilitation Act Refresh Sets New Baseline for Accessibility Standards
- AODA Alliance Update
- Deli Owner Upset After City Orders Removal of ‘Unsafe Wheelchair Ramp’
- Accessibility News March 18,2017 Update
- CAPTCHA Be Gone from Accessible Apps Removes Another Barrier to Accessibility
- Concern Over Access to Library Material for Visually Impaired People Raised With Minister
- CNIB Faces Legal Challenge by Ex-Kiosk Operator Accused of Mishandling Money
- Rights of People With Disabilities in Europe: A New Strategy Based on Ability Rather Than Disability
- UM Study Finds Longstanding Interpretation of Disability Data Incomplete
- E-Agenda Going Back to Tender
- Deaf Community Under Stress as Canadian Hearing Society Strike Continues
- Accessibility News March 25,2017 Update
- Huntsville’s Work-In-Progress Accessibility Plan Breaks Down Barriers
- Opinion: Strong partnerships key to fully accessible Canada
- Canada’s former chief electoral officers eager for successor, laud proposed electoral legislative changes
- Disability Art: How Do You Participate if Only Two Toronto Venues are Fully Accessible?
- I’ve Spent Two Years at Ryerson, but I’m Still Learning How to Navigate It
- Access Board Issues Guidance on the International Symbol of Accessibility
- Accessibility News April 1,2017 Update
- TTC: Accessibility Upgrades Coming to St Patrick Station
- Happy 150th Birthday Canada
- UN Calls for Recognizing the Rights of People with Autism to Make Their Own Decisions
- Advocacy Group Calls for Better Autism Supports in Schools
- Blind Windsor Woman Denied Help Filling Out Passport Docs
- I’m over the moon!
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update
- Accessibility News April 8,2017 Update
- Tokyo 2020 Publish Accessibility Guidelines
- Mohawk College Making Media More Accessible
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance April 11 Update
- Stop Gap Gears Up for Spring Push
- MP Hardcastle Introduces Bill to Help Persons With Disabilities Access Programs
- People with Disabilities Sue BART for Discrimination
- Accessibility News April 15,2017 Update
- Toyota Develops WelWalk Robotic Brace to Aid in Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients
- Lyft and the National Federation of the Blind Announce Comprehensive Accessibility Improvements for Lyft Riders Who Travel with Service Animals
- Persuading your older parents to take the smart home leap
- Accessibility Advocates Want Ontario’s Wheelchair Symbol Changed
- Canadian Federation of the Blind Letter and Background Information Mailed to Librarians and Legislators
- City Criticized on Accessibility Issues
- The Ontario Conservatives Ask the Wynne Government When It Will Appoint the Education Standards Development Committee, But the Wynne Government Doesn’t Give a Direct Answer
- Accessibility News April 22,2017 Update
- Creating New Barriers
- New Stanford Course Tackles Designing for People With Disabilities
- BlindSquare and BlindWays, Connecting the Dots for Travelers in Boston, Then and Now.
- App Spots Objects for the Visually Impaired
- Payton/Dann & Manning Law Firms File Federal Suit Alleging McDonald’s Website & App Violate ADA, Unruh Civil Rights Act
- Accessibility Act to Make Province More Accessible
- Nova Scotia Is the Third Canadian Province to Pass an Accessibility Law
- Accessibility News April 29,2017 Update
- Products and Services to Be Made More Accessible for Disabled Persons in the EU
- Federal Court Dismisses VIA Rail Appeal on Couples With Mobility Scooters Travelling Together
- Report Finds Adults With Disabilities Remain Outside the Economic Mainstream
- Cobourg Brings Intellivote Back for 2018 Election
- Sidewalk Repairs This Year Include 65 Inaccessible Curbs
- Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in the June 1, 2017 Sault Ste. Marie Ontario By-election
- Festival Showcases Disability and Deaf Cultures
- Accessibility News May 6,2017 Update
- School District Eyes Resolution Agreement for Website-Accessibility Complaint
- Center for Real Life Design launches with an emphasis on universal design and sustainability
- Visually Impaired Voters in B.C. Given Option to Phone it In
- Voters With Mental Disabilities Deserve a Say at Polls, advocates Say
- AMC Theaters Agrees to Improve Services for Blind Movie-Goers
- Reliable Elevators Act Passes Second Reading
- Accessibility News May 13,2017 Update
- Nova Scotia Accessibility Act Received Royal Assent
- Minister Qualtrough Announces National AccessAbility Week
- Environmental and Personal Factors Still Create Barriers for People With Disabilities, Despite Assistive Tech
- Two-Thirds of Councils Pass Web Accessibility Test
- Mobility Device Charging Stations Set to Be Showcased at Provincial Conference
- Students with Reading Disorders Sue Berkeley Unified School District (BUSD) for Failing to Educate Them
- The Mortgage Industry’s Next Headache: Website Accessibility Requirements
- MS Student McCarthy Enhances Campus Accessibility Through New Web App
- Accessibility News May 20,2017 Update
- Fighting the Social Factors of Accessibility
- 14 Quotes That Celebrate a More Accessible World
- ‘Hey Siri’ – how mobile technology can support inclusion
- BCA Universal Design Award winners showcase facilities for less mobile users
- AMI Partners with Prominent Web Organization to Further Encourage Media Accessibility and Inclusion
- Ontario’s 2017 David C. Onley Award Recipients
- Accessibility News May 27,2017 Update
- Families Seeking Autism Service Dogs Face Years-Long Wait Lists
- An Interim Victory for Our Grassroots Campaign – Wynne Government at Last Invites Applications to Serve on the Education Standards Development Committee
- Canada’s New Accessibility Laws Should Focus on Employment, Inclusive Buildings, Transport
- Expecting a Barrier Free Saskatchewan
- Wearable System Helps Visually Impaired Users Navigate
- New Report Offers Fresh Perspective on Making Accessibility Accommodations for People with Disabilities
- Canadian Transportation Agency issues What We Heard Summary Report on accessible transportation
- Wynne Government to Unveil Its Promised New Strategy to Tackle High Unemployment Facing Ontarians with Disabilities on June 5, 2017 (A Strategy On Which the AODA Alliance Was Not Consulted)
- Accessibility News June 3,2017 Update
- ‘So many barriers’: Forum discusses jobs and accessibility
- Manitoba Accessibility Awareness Week kicks off June 4
- Making the Business Case for Hiring People with Disabilities
- Today’s Wynne Government Disability Employment Strategy Offers Too Little Immediate Concrete Action and More Delays for Unemployed Ontarians with Disabilities, After More Than Four Years Since the Government Promised Action
- Accessing Accessibility Under the Building Code, the AODA and the OHRC
- The Media Reports on AODA Alliance Concerns About the Wynne Government’s Disability Employment Strategy
- Creating New National Accessibility Legislation: What We Learned
- ‘Fixing Society’ Involves Boosting Accessibility Laws
- Accessibility News June 10,2017 Update
- Social Robots Improving the Lives of People with Autism
- More Canadians Seeking Disability Benefits Have Denials Overturned on Appeal
- Is your Company’s Website Accessible to the Disabled? You’d Better Hope So
- The Federal Government Releases Report of Its Public Consultation on What the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act Should Include Lots of Good Content But Some Areas Where The Federal Report Falls Short
- The Wynne Government Posts Details for Applying to Serve on the Education Standards Development Committee
- Big Win for Blind Shopper in First U.S. ADA Web Accessibility Trial
- Invitation to give your input at public hearings into reforming & revitalizing our public hospital services
- Supreme Court Rules on the Application of Human Rights Protections to Persons with Addictions Disabilities in Safety-Sensitive Employment Contexts
- Before July 14, 2017 Please Fill Out the Ontario Government’s Survey of Disability Accessibility Barriers that Hurt Students with Disabilities in Ontario’s Education System – Here Are Great Tips to Help You
- Accessibility News June 17,2017 Update
- Toronto Needs New Plan to Be Barrier Free as Accessibility Becomes Law, Says Advocate
- Ontario’s Deaf-Blind Lack Support, Intervention Options
- We Invite Schools, Colleges, Universities, Early Learning Programs and Job Training Programs in Ontario to Use These Tips for Holding a Public Event to Gather Feedback from Your Organization and the Public on Disability Accessibility Barriers in Our Education System
- Mother of Two Disabled Daughters Concerned About Lack of Accessibility at New Foldens Playground
- Employees With Disabilities Need More Than a Government Strategy, Say Advocates
- The Wynne Government’s Current Online Survey of Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Education system Leaves out Many if not the Majority of Barriers Impeding Students with Disabilities in Ontario’s Education System
- D’AMATO: Is a School a Public Place? Question Affects Boy and His Service Dog
- Lawsuit for People Who Lived at CPRI in Ontario Between 1963 and 2011
- After Almost Three Months, The Wynne Government Answers the AODA Alliance’s Request for An Update on Government Plans on Implementing and Enforcing the AODA, but Several of Our Important Questions Remain Unanswered
- Accessibility News June 24,2017 Update
- When I’m Not Here, the Dog is Her Comfort
- Binbrook Conservation Area Sees Many Improvements
- Accessibility Equipment Added To Sandpoint Beach
- AODA Alliance Asks the Wynne Government for Updated Specific Information on What It Is Doing to Keep Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Benetech Establishes Global Certified Accessible Program to Ensure Content Serves All Students Equally
- Press Release: Statement issued to Media by Durham Region Stroke Recovery Group, Whitby, Ont.
- LETTER: A Step in the Right Direction
- Accessibility News July 1,2017 Update
- ICC Releases Update to Building Accessibility Standard
- Letter Calls on Minister to Include Education in Accessibility Legislation
- Lack of Accessibility at New Orillia Restaurant Angers Resident
- Braille on Map at New Toronto Park ‘Not Accessible’
- Freeing our people: Updates From the Long Road to dIinstitutionalization
- Markham Teen Wins Ontario Science Centre’s 2017 Weston Youth Innovation Award
- Accessibility News July 8,2017 Update
- Ontario to Change Child Support Law to Give Adult Children With Disabilities Access to Parental Cash
- Guide Dog Users, Providers Say Proposed Rules Disregard Needs of Visually Impaired
- Focus: Feds Can Improve Accessibility Legislation
- MobilityPlus to Take Another Look at Dialysis Rides
- Before Week’s End, Please Fill Out the Wynne Government’s Online Survey on Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Education system and Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Answers to This Survey, Which We Make Public Today
- Communication Support for Disabled Crime Victims ‘Ignored’ by Justice System, Advocates Say
- Low-Cost Smart Glove Translates American Sign Language Alphabet
- Accessibility News July 15,2017 Update
- Microsoft’s New iPhone App Narrates the World for Blind People
- nTIDE June 2017 Jobs Report: Ongoing Job Growth Reflects Americans with Disabilities Striving to Work
- Wynne Government Extends to July 31, 2017 the Deadline for Answering the Government’s Education Barriers Survey and for Giving Feedback on Draft Reforms to Ontario’s Transportation Accessibility Standard
- Uber Discriminates Against Riders With Disabilities, Class-Action Suit Says
- New Pedestrian-Activated Crossing Signals Provide Safe Passage in Downtown St. Marys
- Help Us Make Transportation Services in Ontario Accessible to Passengers with Disabilities
- Accessibility News July 22,2017 Update
- A Robot to Help Visually Impaired Schoolchildren Find Their Way
- Washrooms at Kirby’s Beach are Officially Open for Business in Bracebridge
- Disabilities Advocates Split Over Guelph Housing Proposal
- Toronto Looking to Crack Down on Misuse of Accessible Parking Permits
- Built Environment Accessibility Audit, Largest in Manitoba History
- Accessibility News July 29,2017 Update
- Committed to Technology Equality for People with Disabilities
- Federal Disabilities Minister ‘Frustrated’ After Family Denied Residency Over Daughter’s Health Needs
- Privacy Commission Rules in Favour of Accessibility Advocacy Group
- Information and Privacy Commission Orders the Wynne Government to Reveal Its Plans for Enforcing Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- City of Peterborough Launches Online Survey on Accessibility
- Tell the Ontario Government if You Support the AODA Alliance’s and ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Brief to the Ontario Government on Reforms to Make Transportation Accessible to People with Disabilities
- Educational Organizations, Libraries, and the AODA
- New Democratic Party and Progressive Conservative Party Call on the Wynne Government to Make Public All Information that AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Requested in His June 4, 2015 Freedom of Information Application, on the Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Enforcement Without Charging a Fee
- Accessibility News August 5,2017 Update
- On Accessibility, Ontario Needs Less Secrecy, More Action: Editorial
- Toronto Star Editorial Blasts the Wynne Government for Too Much Secrecy and Not Enough Action on Disability Accessibility
- World’s Blind Population to Triple by 2050: study
- Americans with Disabilities Act: An Epic Tragedy of Good Intentions
- Tune in Online to the August 22, 2017 Conference on What the Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Court Report Confirms Dismal State of Sidewalks for Disabled New Yorkers
- Doing More For People With Disabilities Is Doing More For Canadians
- Accessibility News August 12,2017 Update
- Helping California National Parks Become More Accessible for Visually Impaired
- Port Robinson Ferry Meeting Accessibility Standards
- Helping Retailers in Ontario Improve Accessibility
- NASA Paves A Way for People Who are Blind to Experience A Total Solar Eclipse
- Teen with Cerebral Palsy Faces One Last Hurdle on Difficult Road to University
- Toronto Couple with Service Dog Barred From Prince Edward County B&B
- Legislation Would ‘Move the Needle’ on Accessibility in N.L.: Advocate
- Invictus Games are an Opportunity to Advocate for Disability Rights
- Accessibility News August 19,2017 Update
- Three Day Event to Help Calgarians with Disabilities
- Remember to Catch Tomorrow’s Online Conference on What Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- How Does the Refreshed Section 508 Rule Affect Your Agency?
- Obtaining Accessible Cable Television: A Frustrating Experience
- Prince Edward County Officials Decry ‘Unfortunate’ Case of Couple Denied B&B Over Service Dog
- Ontario Teen Who Lost Both Parents to Mental Health Issues Mailed Letters to All 338 MPs, Only 40 Responded
- Excellent Media Coverage of the Policy Experts Conference on What Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Accessibility News August 26,2017 Update
- Watch the Archived Video of the August 22, 2017 Policy Experts Conference on What Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Completing your accessibility compliance report
- Reminder: Reporting Compliance With AODA Accessibility Standards
- The AODA Alliance Writes Kent Hehr, Canadas New National Minister for People with Disabilities, who is Now Responsible for Developing Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law
- The 2017 Disability Equality Index Names the “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion”
- Prominent International Disability Advocate to Visit NZ
- Ontario Tribunal Rules Autistic Boy Can’t Bring Service Dog to Class
- First Nations Monument to Be Shining Example of Accessibility
- Accessibility News September 2,2017 Update
- UN Denounces British Government for Failing to Protect Disabled Peoples’ Rights
- Government of Canada Supports Greater Accessibility in Public Consultation Forums for People with Speech and Language Disabilities
- Justice System Failed Mentally Ill Indigenous Inmate, Lawyer Argues
- Store Owner Gives the Boot to Blind Sudbury Man and His Service Dog
- Congress Wants to Change the Americans with Disabilities Act and Undermine the Civil Rights of People with Disabilities
- Burlington Woman in Wheelchair Calls Condo Hunting ‘An Unacceptable Nightmare’
- Accessibility News September 9,2017 Update
- UAE Students Invent Photo-to-Braille Translator; To Make Reading Easier for Visually Impaired
- Disabled Accessibility Law Gathering Support
- Metro to Launch Abilities-Ride Program to Encourage Accessible Taxi Use as Alternative to MetroAccess in Maryland
- Raise Public Transit Accessibility Barriers at the September 19, 2017 TTC Public Forum on Accessible Transit
- U.S. Department of Transportation Announces Accessible Transportation Technologies Research Initiative Application Development Awards
- New Program Helps Ontario Business Connect with the Right Talent
- Guide Dogs Do Serious Work
- Accessibility News September 16,2017 Update
- Another Court Finds That Accessibility Rules Apply to Retail Websites
- Leaving No One Behind: Achieving Disability-Inclusive Disaster Risk Management
- AODA Alliance September 19 Press Release
- Workers’ Comp is a Right!
- CBC Radio Reports on Serious Recurring Accessibility Barriers on Toronto Transit Commission
- Wheel-Trans users fear new program will force them to use inaccessible TTC
- Blind Man Says Tribunal Ruling Aids in Discrimination
- New Smart Beacons Open Doors for the Blind in Toronto Neighbourhood
- Accessibility News September 23,2017 Update
- Driving a Taxi is Not a ‘Legal’ Right
- CBC Radio Reports on Serious Recurring Accessibility Barriers on Toronto Transit Commission
- A seriously Flawed Human Rights Tribunal Decision Rules Against the Request of a Nine Year Old Boy with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Bring His Autism Service Dog to School
- A Campus of Hurdles
- Canada and Manitoba Invest in Rural Transit Projects Across the Province
- Human Rights Commission Accuses Ontario of Mistreating Prisoners With Mental Health Issues
- Ontario Taking Steps to Increase Employment for People with Disabilities
- Ontario: Chihuahua as Service Dog Getting No Respect
- Accessibility News September 30,2017 Update
- A Prisoner in Her Own Home
- Exploring a $55-Billion Untapped Market
- DOJ Halts Plan to Create Website Accessibility Regulations
- Daniels Leads Industry in Accessible Housing
- Will the Massive New Courthouse that The Wynne Government Is Planning for the Heart of Downtown Toronto Have Sufficient Disability Accessibility?
- EU One Step Closer to Accessibility Act as MEP Mizzi welcomes EP vote
- Accessibility News October 7,2017 Update
- How an Ottawa Cancer Patient is Trying to Make CHEO More Accessible for Everyone
- Accessibility Advocates Looking to Expand the Scope of the StopGap Program in the City
- Are Self-Driving Cars the Future of Mobility for Disabled People?
- FDNY Violates ADA by Pre-judging Veteran Applicants as Unfit
- Making a Home Accessible Can Make All the Difference as We Age
- Taxi Ruling a Black Mark for Justice
- Local Man Wants Law to Regulate Service Dogs
- Accessibility News October 14,2017 Update
- Win the war on talent: Hire people with disabilities
- Canada’s First National Accessibility Law Should Be Ready by Next Spring: Hehr
- Wynne Government Still Hasn’t Appointed an Education Standards Development Committee, Fully 314 Days After Premier Wynne Pledged to Create an Education Accessibility Standard under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Levelling the Playing Field
- Additional Regulation Isn’t Necessary to Resolve the Issue of Fake Service Animals
- Oshawa Mom Says Its Time to Replace Accessibility Symbol with a more Active Image
- Accessibility News October 21,2017 Update
- People With Disabilities Around B.C. to Benefit From New Accessibility Programs
- How a Cool New Fuel App Helps Drivers With Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Calls On the Wynne Government to Take Action to Ensure Ontario’s Built Environment Becomes Disability-Accessible by 2025
- No Dogs Allowed: Uber Driver’s Ignorance a Barrier for Deaf-Blind Athlete and Guide Dog
- Enabling Accessibility Fund Youth Pilot
- Toronto Pearson Launches Innovative Technology to Support Accessibility for those with Cognitive Special Needs
- Canadian Universities Sign Off on Pledge to Greater Diversity, Accessibility
- Deadline for 2017 AODA Compliance Report is Coming Up
- Accessibility News October 28,2017 Update
- Grassroots Disability Coalition Unveils Powerful New Video Showing Serious Accessibility Problems at the New Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
- Changes Will Regulate How New Facilities Are Built
- Some People Are Using Accessible Parking Permits of Relatives Who’ve Died, police say
- U of T’s New Mental Health Policy is Shameful
- New AODA Alliance Video on Accessibility Problems at Ryerson University Student Learning Centre Gets Great Media Coverage
- Lack of Funding, Resources Blamed for Rise in Classroom Violence
- New Accessibility Regulations for N.L. Buildings, Parking Lots
- Accessibility News November 4,2017 Update
- Manitoba: Progress on Accessibility Standard in Employment
- eSSENTIAL Accessibility Bridges the Digital Divide for People with Disabilities With a New Android Application
- Job Numbers Reflect Increasing Inclusion of Americans with Disabilities in the Workforce
- West Virginia Nonprofit and its Partnership with the RightCycle Program Help People with Disabilities Find Work that Sustains Them and the Environment
- Yellowknife’s Transit Leaves Disabled Residents Unable to Attend Public Meetings, Says Advocate
- Senators Markey and Capito Introduce Legislation to Improve Educational Opportunities for Visual and Hearing-Impaired Students
- Accommodations for Students and Employees With Disabilities Can Take Many Forms
- Accessibility News November 11,2017 Update
- TTC to Retrofit Almost All Subway Stations to Fix Platform Gaps
- Ontario Woman Calls for Better Accessibility at Toronto Coach Terminal
- Almost Half of Ontario Youth Miss School Because of Anxiety, Study Suggests
- Children With Disabilities are Being Denied Equal Opportunities for A Quality Education Across the World, Including in the UK
- Santa Claus Parade Adds Accessibility Spaces
- Pedestrian Travel for Persons With Disabilities Can Be Difficult and Occasionally Risky
- Airbnb buys ‘Airbnb for Disabled People’ Startup Accomable in Accessibility Upgrade
- Amazing Responses to, Including More Media Coverage of our New Video on Serious Accessibility Problems at Ryerson University’s New Student Learning Centre
- Disability Group TO Call for Repeal of Discriminatory Provision in Canada’s Immigration Act
- Accessibility News November 18,2017 Update
- B.C. Needs Disability Act: Victoria Council
- Court: Movie Theatres Must Accommodate Deaf-Blind Patrons
- King Street Pilot Project Sparks Accessibility Issues
- Disability Rights Advocates Fight ‘Demeaning’ Immigration Criteria
- Uber Canada’s Service-Animal Policy Doesn’t Go Far Enough, Critics Say
- Section 508 Gets an Update: New Web Accessibility Guidelines for Government Sites Take Effect in January
- Service Dog Handlers Face Bitter Pushback, Kicked Out of Public Places
- Immigration Minister Vows to Change Law That Bars Immigrants With Disabilities and Illnesses
- Accessibility News November 25,2017 Update
- Lawyers Back Family Law Act Change, But Say Disability Definition May Become Issue
- Accessibility Concerns Raised in Stirling
- Our Communities are Dying the Death of 1,000 Cuts
- Accessing Education With a Disability Isn’t As Easy As We Think
- The AODA Alliance Launches Part 2 of Its Series of Online Videos on the Campaign for Accessibility, to Mark the 23rd Anniversary of Ontario’s Grassroots Campaign for Disability Accessibility
- International Certification of Accessibility Consultants for the Built Environment launched by GAATES
- On the Eve of the International Day for People with Disabilities, will the Wynne Government Invest $125 Million In Another New Public University Building Whose Preliminary Design Has Serious Accessibility Problems?
- The Government of Canada Tables the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
- Accessibility News December 2,2017 Update
- News Release: Anniversary of Wynne Government Inaction
- All Branches of Government Must Rally Together for Canadians With Disabilities
- Toronto Needs Wider, Unobstructed Sidewalks, Disability and Pedestrian Advocates Say
- Much Remains to Be Done When It Comes to Quality of Life and Safety
- The Opposition New Democratic Party and Progressive Conservative Party Each Draw on The AODA Alliance’s December 4, 2017 News Release to Support Our Call for the Wynne Government to Now Appoint the Overdue Education Standards Development Committee
- Will Ontario’s Transportation Standards Development Committee Consider and Vote on Each Recommendation that the AODA Alliance and ARCH Disability Law Centre Have Made to Strengthen Ontario’s Transportation Accessibility Standard?
- Elections Ontario Invites Ontarians to Provide Feedback on Accessibility of Proposed Voting Locations for the 2018 General Election
- Government of Canada: Call for Proposal – Accessibility
- After Months of AODA Alliance Advocacy Efforts, the Wynne Government Announces the Chairs of the Education Standards Development Committee
- Accessibility News December 9,2017 Update
- Woman Upset Via Wouldn’t Let Her Take Service Dogs on Train
- Making Digital Technologies More Accessible to Canadians With Disabilities
- W3C Releases Video Introducing Web Accessibility and W3C Standards
- Accessibility Awareness Remains Low as Deadline Approaches
- Bard’s on Market Square and The Hub earns the 2017 accessible business award from Stratfords accessibility advisory committee
- Accessible Technology Program
- Canada’s Aging Population Signals Need for More Inclusive, Accessible Transportation System: New Expert Panel Report
- Accessibility News December 16,2017 Update
- The Government of Canada Launches Renewed Program to Support the Social Inclusion of Canadians With Disabilities
- Grand Theatre Expands Accessibility for Deaf Community
- OC Transpo Fined $25K for Failing to Call Out Bus Stops
- Lyft Is Making The App More Accessible For Visually Impaired Riders & Here’s Why It’s Important
- All VIA Rail Trains to Allow Two Mobility Aid Scooters on Board
- Ontario Disability Coalition Says Children Being Left Behind
- Accessibility News December 23,2017 Update
- DOJ Nixes All Pending ADA Rulemakings, Including Website Access Rules
- Heathrow Enhances Service for Passengers with Hidden and Visible Disabilities
- New Year, New AODA Rules – Is Your Business Accessible ?
- Wheelchair-Accessible Toboggan Slide Opens in Winnipeg
- CTA Foundation Announces Accessibility Award Winners, Exhibitors, Programming at CES 2018
- Where We’ve Failed to Live Up to the Promise of the Americans with Disabilities Act
- Long-Sought New Accessibility Law Coming in 2018, But What Will it Look Like?
- Accessibility News December 30,2017 Update
- Transit Accessibility for All Remains a Dream Unfulfilled Across Canada
- Cubs Fan Who Uses Wheelchair Sues, Says Wrigley Field Violates Disabilities Act
- I Dread it: Navigating London’s Winter Sidewalks in a Wheelchair
- President’s Message: Nationwide Class Action Challenges Hulu’s Discrimination Against Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals
- How to Protect Disability Rights in 2018
- Public Procurement – Call for Proposals – Digital Accessibility
- Residential Snow Plowing Needed, Disability Advocates Urge
- Accessibility News January 6,2018 Update
- Accessibility Ramp Rebuild Removed From Perth Countys 2018 Budget
- Grand Theatre Raises $133,169 for London Food Bank
- Council Directs Staff to Create a New Design for Ballantyne Avenue That Includes Sidewalks on Both Sides of the Street
- Payment Companies Face Service, Compliance Gaps for the Visually Impaired
- We Need to Build Accessibility Into Our Digital Workplaces!
- Campaign Gets Major Lift
- TTC Posts $73M Budget Surplus Due to Drop in Wheel-Trans Demand, Clampdown on Benefits Fraud
- Accessibility News January 13,2018 Update
- Grand Theatre Announces the World Premiere of SILENCE
- Companies, Give People With Disabilities Access to the Superhighway
- Tech Firm’s Powerful Vision Brings Sight to the Legally Blind
- The Government of Canada Improves Accessibility for Canadians With Disabilities in Hamilton, Ontario
- New App Helps Disabled Drivers Refuel
- Canadian Children Lack Accessible Play Spaces
- Ontario to End Solitary Confinement of Inmates with Mental Illness
- The Wynne Government Offers Nothing New to Address Disability Barriers in the Built Environment
- Accessibility News January 20,2018 Update
- Supreme Court Orders Second Look at Complaint About Airline Bumping Obese Passengers
- What It Means to Be Accessible
- Report #4: A Focus on the Consumer Perspective of Employment Programs and Services in Ontario
- Accessible Fire Safety Tips for Property Managers
- Blind Law Students Win ADA Suit
- Government of Canada Accepting Project Proposals to Support Canadians With Disabilities
- This Self-Driving Shuttle Puts Accessibility First
- Accessibility News January 27,2018 Update
- Pickering Asks Durham Region Transit for Changes to Accessible Services
- Group Questions LRT Accessibility for Visually Impaired
- CNIB Calls for Senate of Canada to Include Strengthened Requirements to Accommodate Canadians With Sight Loss
- Disabled Transit Users Pitch Ideas for Uber Accessibility Cash
- The 2018 AEBC/T-Base Scholarship Program is Accepting Applications
- Blackboard and ReadSpeaker Partner to Enhance Accessibility of Digital Course Content
- AODA Alliance Writes Ontario’s Accessibility Minister to Requested Updated Information on the Wynne Government’s Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Be My Eyes and Moovit Join Forces to Make Public Transit More Accessible
- Accessibility News February 3,2018 Update
- The AODA Alliance Makes Public an Open Letter, Seeking Disability Accessibility Commitments from the Candidates for Leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party
- Sorry, Not All Your Library Dreams are Going to Come True
- Does the Government Make It too Hard for People With Disabilities to Work?
- uber-ASSIST driver pleads guilty, fined for refusing passenger with a guide dog
- Mandated Leave Policy is Withdrawn
- Province Selects The Honourable David C. Onley to Review Ontario’s Accessibility Laws
- Transport Boards Must Include People With ‘Experience of Disability’
- The Wynne Government Appoints a Person to Conduct an Independent Review of the Disabilities Act Who has Respected Expertise in Accessibility, But who Lacks Much-Needed Independence
- Accessibility News February 10,2018 Update
- A Delicate Approach to Restoring Control
- UK Government Website Offline After Hack Infects Thousands More Worldwide
- A Lengthy 14 Months after Finally Promising to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act, the Wynne Government Finally Convenes the First Meetings of the Promised Education Standards Development Committees
- Parents Push Premier to Fill Treatment Gaps for Addicted Teens
- Universities Join Together to Inspire Students to Use Their Creativity and Innovative Skills to Help Make Communities More Accessible for People With Disabilities
- What Would a Truly Disabled-Accessible City Look Like?
- It’s OK To Look At Your Phone At A Broadway Show, If Your Hearing Is Impaired
- Accessibility News February 17,2018 Update
- Promised New Canada Accessibility Legislation Expected to Be Introduced into Parliament for Debate This Spring
- Members of New Advisory Board Want Nova Scotia to Rethink Accessibility
- Children’s Book Series Aims to Encourage Inclusion of People With Disabilities
- Investigating the Experiences and Academic Success of Graduate Students with Mental Health Challenges or Disabilities: A Mixed Methods Study.
- Supreme Court Ruling Affirms Injured Workers’ Rights on the Job
- City to Expand Service Area for Handy-Transit
- Widespread Economic Benefits To Be Gained From Making Workplaces More Accessible For People With Disabilities
- Accessibility News February 24,2018 Update
- Dundas Service Ontario Office Encouraged to Improve Accessibility
- Why Do Gyms Make Things So Difficult for Blind People?
- Ninety-six percent of Visually Impaired Adults Watch TV on a Regular Basis, According to Comcast and the American Foundation for the Blind
- Uber Sued By Disability Rights Groups For Illegal Discrimination Against Wheelchair Users
- Pacific Autism Family Network and Miriam Foundation Receive Federal Funding to Help Canadians Impacted by Autism
- New Initiatives on Campus Aim to Improve Accessibility
- Accessibility News March 3,2018 Update
- Census an ‘Accessibility Debacle’, Blind Man Says
- Record Snow Creates ‘Nightmare’ for People With Accessibility Issues, Says Advocate Urging Better Clearing
- Diversity and Inclusion Give These Firms a Competitive Advantage
- Technology Innovations: Making the Online World More Accessible
- At Odds Over Parking Proposal
- Advocates Question Independence of Provincial Accessibility Review
- Olympic Bid an Opportunity to Improve Accessibility
- The Toronto Star Reports on Objections from the Disability Community to the Wynne Government’s Appointing Its Former Accessibility Special Advisor to Conduct the Next Independent Review of the Government’s Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- Accessibility News March 10,2018 Update
- Fake Service Dogs a Menace for Legitimate Owners, Businesses Alike
- Trudeau Liberals Axe Funding for Blind and Vision-Impaired Books
- Petition Calls on Upper Canada Mall to Get Disabled Off Washroom Floor
- AODA Alliance Writes New Ontario Conservative Leader Doug Ford to Request a Meeting to Brief Him and His Team on Pressing Disability Accessibility Issues in Ontario
- U.S. Sues New York City Subway Operator Over Disabled Access
- City Pays $25K Fine for Not Calling Out OC Transpo Bus Stops
- Accessibility Advisory Committee is seeking new members
- Bill C-49 Empowers Goliath and Takes Away Davids Sling Shot
- Accessibility News March 17,2018 Update
- Paralympics: Disabled People Experience Accessibility Issues
- Airbnb strives for inclusiveness with accessibility-approved Rentals
- One Hundred Years Enough for the CNIB
- New Ontario Throne Speech Offers More Mental Health and Addiction Supports, but Nothing New on Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Disabled Canadians Experience More Assault
- WFD and WASLI Statement on Use of Signing Avatars
- Who Enforces AODA Accessibility Compliance Requirements?
- Accessibility News March 24,2018 Update
- Apple Proposes Accessibility Emoji, Including Service Dog
- “Over There.”
- Practice Guidelines to Support Disabled People Into Work
- Service Animals in the Workplace – Are They Allowed?
- A Disability Accessibility Perspective on the March 28, 2018 Pre-Election Ontario Budget
- UC Berkeley furthers commitment to accessibility with Blackboard partnership
- Tell Us What Disability Barriers Now Impede Students with Disabilities in Ontario’s Education System So We Can Share these with the Education Standards Development Committee
- The Government of Canada Launches Funding Opportunity to Improve Participation of Canadians With Disabilities in Their Communities and the Labour Market
- Accessibility News March 31,2018 Update
- Accessibility Advocates Express Cautious Optimism About Ontario Budget
- Our Disability Accessibility Concerns and Issues Again Get Good Attention in the Media and the Ontario Legislature in the Wake of Last Week’s Pre-election Ontario Budget
- Gyms Must Do More to Accommodate People With Disabilities
- Disability Etiquette Is a Must in Society
- Send Us Your Feedback About the Draft Recommendations to Revise the 2011 Ontario Employment Accessibility Standard that the Employment Standards Development Committee Has Circulated for Public Comment
- AODA Alliance Writes Ontario’s Major Political Parties, Seeking Their Election Pledges on Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Why Financial Institutions Should Strive to Meet the Needs of Persons With Disabilities(PWD’s)
- Accessibility News April 7,2018 Update
- Ontario’s Accessibility Minister Convenes a Forum on Addressing Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Built Environment – We Await Follow-up Action
- This Marathoner Defies the Odds
- Disability Network Sponsoring Accessible Services at Dow Diamond
- The Wynne Government’s Plan for a New Courthouse in Downtown Toronto Has Significant Accessibility Problems
- Make Soccer Accessible in Your Community
- In Making Yale More Digitally Accessible, Everyone Benefits
- Accessibility News April 14,2018 Update
- City Tightens Rules on Service and Support Animal Regulations
- Beyond Title III: Website Accessibility Lawsuits Filed Alleging Inaccessible Online Employment Applications
- Blind Woman Helps Guide Successful Voting-Rights Lawsuit Against State of Ohio
- Grassroots Disability Coalition’s New Report Reveals Five Consecutive Years of Rampant Violations of Ontario’s Disabilities Act, Known to the Wynne Government, And Ineffective Provincial Enforcement, Despite Unkept Government Promises to Effectively Enforce this Law
- Activists Push for Independent Enforcement of Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- The University of Winnipeg Students’ Association Launches The Access Lounge
- AODA Alliance Report on 5 Years of Lax AODA Enforcement Comes Up in the Legislature and the Media
- Accessibility News April 21,2018 Update
- AODA Alliance Writes Accessibility Minister Tracy MacCharles to Request Modest But Important Improvements to the Way Accessibility Standards are Developed in Ontario Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- CSUN 2018 Heralds The Year of Wearables–Unless It Doesn’t
- What is the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (IASR)?
- AODA Training Requirements: Who Needs It and Why?
- ‘There was no sympathy’: Brampton Mom Says H&M Store Discriminated Against Her Son With Autism
- Calgary, Edmonton Expos Less Accessible After Policy Change, Say Fans With Mobility Concerns
- Are Autonomous Vehicles Ready to Help the Blind?
- Please Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliances Draft Brief on the Proposed Recommendations for Revisions to the 2011 Employment Accessibility Standard that the Employment Standards Development Committee Has Circulated for Public Comment
- Accessibility News April 28,2018 Update
- HealthHack 2018 Winner Aims for Better Accessibility in Edmonton
- Lyft Sued for Discriminating Against Wheelchair-Users
- With 2.6 Million Followers and Counting, Disabled Chinese Woman Inspires Social Change
- Increasing Access to Financial Support Programs for People With Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Would Lead to Economic and Social Benefits
- How Ontario Traps Those With Disabilities in Lives of Poverty
- Ontario Educational System Failing Students With Intellectual Disabilities: Report
- Accessibility News May 5,2018 Update
- Blind Customers Locked Out by Bank Web Upgrades
- Travel With Ease: How Singapore Is Catering to Visitors with Special Accessibility Needs
- Ontarians to Use Electronic Voting Machines in June Election
- Downtown Accessibility Ramp Project Kicks Off
- Ottawa Cracking Down on Misuse, Forgery of Accessible Parking Permits
- Help Us Expand Access to Jobs for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Use Our List of Provincial Candidates’ Contact Info to Press them for Strong Commitments on Accessibility
- Accessibility News May 12,2018 Update
- Robot ‘Double’ Allows Sick Students to Attend School, See Friends
- Grassroots Disability Coalition’s Powerful New Video Shows Serious Accessibility Problems at New and Recently Renovated Public Transit Stations in Toronto, , As the Future of Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Looms as an Ontario Election Issue
- What Has Each Political Party Pledged to Do to Make Ontario Fully Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities by 2025? Major Disability Coalition Unveils and Analyzes the Parties’ Pledges
- Vaughan Subway Accessibility Denied With Elevator Out of Service 6 Months
- How to Create Better Employee Experiences for Workers with Disabilities
- Wonderful Media Coverage of the AODA Alliance’s New Video on Serious Accessibility Problems at New and Recently-Renovated Toronto Area Public Transit Stations
- 2018 Ontario Election Action Kit: Tell Candidates that In This Election, the Disability Vote Counts!
- Accessibility News May 19,2018 Update
- Watch AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Tonight at 8 or 11 PM or Later on YouTube, Talking about This Ontario Election’s Accessibility Issues
- 2nd World Summit on Accessible Tourism – Destinations for All 2018
- Saskatoon Woman Demands Change for Provincial Wheelchair Accessibility
- National AccessAbility Week
- Linking Campus to Nature: Work Begins on One-of-a-Kind, Accessible Trail at U of T Scarborough
- More Proof That There Are Accessibility Problems at the New Toronto Courthouse, Planned to Be Built in the Heart of Downtown Toronto
- The IDeA Competition Deadline May 31, 2018
- AODA Alliance Urges All Ontario Voters with Disabilities to Vote at Advance Polls, to Avoid the Risk of Running Into Accessibility Barriers on Voting Day June 7, 2018 – Here Are Helpful Action Tips
- Accessibility News May 26,2018 Update
- Bracebridge’s Accessibility Advisory Committee Keeps Accessibility Issues in the Forefront
- CNIB Ontario Calls on Political Parties to Update Assistive Devices Program
- A First of Its Kind Program in Ontario Will Help Police Officers and Deaf People Communicate
- On the Eve of the 2018 Ontario Election Campaign, the Wynne Government Made Public the Weak Final Recommendations of the Transportation Standards Development committee For Revisions to the 2011 Transportation Accessibility Standard
- Frustrated By a Lack of Co-Operation From City Council, the Committee Accepts Offer to Talk Things Through
- More Proof During this Election of the Need for Ontario’s Next Government to Take Strong, Prompt New Action to Tear Down the Many Barriers Impeding Students with Disabilities – and – What Should An Accessible Education system Look Like?
- Despite Election Promises, Ontario’s Mental Health System is ‘Not Just a Simple Fix’
- Making Businesses Accessible ‘Right Thing To Do’
- Join Us at the Saturday June 16, 2018 Public Forum on Disability Accessibility in Barrie Ontario
- Blind Disability Rights Advocate Has His Right to Mark His Ballot in Private Violated at His Riding’s Returning Office
- Accessibility News June 2,2018 Update
- Massive New Park Set to Open Soon in Brampton
- A Simple Way to Improve a Billion Lives: Eyeglasses
- More on the pressing Need for Ontario’s Next Government to Enact Strong New Laws to Ensure that Ontario’s Built Environment Becomes Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Ontario Election: Disability Advocates Hope New Government Will Revisit Accessibility Law
- New 2-Minute Teaser/Promo Video Available for the Longer AODA Alliance Video on Accessibility Problems at New and Recently Renovated Toronto Public Transit Stations
- More Media Coverage of Accessibility Issues and Voting Barriers Facing Voters with Disabilities
- Cambridge Advisory Committees Clash Over Blair Road Turf War
- Mobility Devices and Air Travel Forum
- First Reflections on the 2018 Ontario Election from the Perspective of Our Non-Partisan Campaign for Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility News June 9,2018 Update
- A Sudbury Company is Investing in Homes and Transportation for Disabled Youth
- School Board Accessibility Training in Ontario
- Challenges Facing Students with Disabilities in Ontario
- American Foundation for the Blind Launches the First Fully Accessible Digital Archive of the Helen Keller Collection
- Mobile Apps for People with Disabilities
- Creating a Workplace Personalized Emergency Response Plan
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier-Designate Doug Ford, as the Conservative Party Prepares to Take Power in Ontario
- Accessibility News June 16,2018 Update
- Uber Driver Allegedly Leaves With Visually Impaired Man’s Cane Following Dispute
- With the National Accessibility Law Promised to Be Introduced into Parliament This Spring, the AODA Alliance Makes Public an Introductory Guide On The Process That a Bill Goes Through At Canadas Parliament
- Federal Government Announces Its Intent to Introduce Into Parliament, As Early As This Week, “An Act to Ensure a Barrier-Free Canada” – Will History Be Made This Week?
- An Historic Step On the Road to a Barrier-Free Canada for 4 Million Canadians with Disabilities Today – the Trudeau Government Just Introduced in Parliament for First Reading “An Act to Ensure a Barrier-Free Canada” – Disability Advocates Rushing Now to Size it Up
- Canada’s First National Accessibility Law Tabled in Ottawa
- Minister Duncan Introduces the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Generation Z: Waiting – Often Months – to Get Mental Health Help
- AODA Alliance Releases Its Preliminary Analysis of the Trudeau Government’s Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Media Coverage of the AODA Alliance’s Preliminary Analysis of bill C-81, the Federal Government’s Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Accessibility News June 23,2018 Update
- Pickering hopes to Better Define ‘Service Animals’
- Funding is Available to Improve Accessibility and Safety in Your Workplace
- Breaking Down Barriers at the Heritage Railway and Carousel Company
- ‘Handicapped’ Removed From P.E.I. Legislation, Thanks to Hannah MacLellan
- ‘Disappointing and Frustrating’: Air Travel Accessibility Highlighted at Winnipeg Passenger Rights Meeting
- U of T Approves Policy That Could Place Students With Mental Health Issues on Leave
- Retrospective On Progress from October 2003 to June 2018 on Disability Accessibility Under the Ontario Liberal Government of Premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne
- Accessibility News June 30,2018 Update
- Creating an Accessibility Policy and Plan
- ‘I’m Just Amazed’: Inverness Beach Becomes Accessibility Leader
- Advocates Welcome Ontario Minister Responsible for Accessibility
- Incorporating Accessibility into Teaching and Training
- New Canadian Accessibility Standard for Buildings Benefits Everyone, Disability Advocates Say
- Team Building Activities for Workers with Disabilities
- Mental health training not mandatory at U of G, other Ontario universities
- Accessibility News July 7,2018 Update
- Firm Ordered to Pay $1.5 Million in Fees!
- Bike-Lane Bus Stops Dangerous for Blind: Suit
- Left In The Dark: Canadians With Disabilities Deserve Better From CRA
- Supporting Autism in Classrooms with Different Strategies
- What Will Today’s Throne Speech at Queen’s Park Offer 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities?
- A Look at Premier Doug Ford’s First Throne Speech from the Perspective of Ensuring that Ontario Becomes Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities by 2025
- B.C. Residents With Disabilities Demand a Say on Proposed Accessibility Law
- Accessibility News July 14,2018 Update
- At The Frank, Accessibility Obstacles Going, Going Gone
- Disability Legislation to Crack Down on Public Bodies in the UK
- Proposed San Francisco Straw Ban May Limit Accessibility for People With Disabilities
- How LED Lighting Can Help Those With Visual Impairments Navigate The City
- 4 Areas AI Makes the World More Accessible
- Court Orders CRA to Stop Setting Political Limits on Charities’ Activities
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Doug Ford to Offer Nine Recommendations for the Premier to Help Get Ontario Back on Schedule to Reach Full Accessibility by 2025 for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility News July 21,2018 Update
- Most Business Websites Are Sitting Ducks for ADA Suits, Experts Say
- Disability Community Struggles to Find Accessible Apartments in Rockford
- From Trails to Exhibits, Parks Aim to Increase Accessibility
- Remote Work to Accommodate Workers with a Disability
- Two Major Developments on the Accessibility Front Outside Ontario
- U of T’s Accessibility Report and Plan 2017-2018
- Greater Certainty and Choice at Victorian Elections