Last Updated: March 11 2019 Article by Jackie VanDerMeulen and Megan Beal Fasken The Accessible Canada Act (Act), first introduced in June 2018 in Bill…
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NS Decision Finds Blatant Discrimination Against Three Persons with Intellectual Disabilities
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 6th, 2019 HALIFAX, NS – Chairman John Walter Thompson, Q.C. found in Monday’s Human Rights Commission Board of Inquiry decision that…
This Is How To Create The Biggest Changes for Women With Disabilities In Years
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Denise Brodey Each year when Women’s History Month comes around, there’s an explosion of content online about women. This year, there are plenty of signs…
Broken Elevator at Portage and Main Suggests Accessibility’s Not A Priority, Advocate Says
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Allen Mankewich says the wheelchair lift at 201 Portage Ave. is often out of service Holly Caruk · CBC News · Posted: Mar 04, 2019…
Conn Maciel Carey LLP USA February 21 2019 Over the past several years, we have written extensively about employers’ obligations to make their websites accessible…
By Jennifer Tzivia MacLeod, Israel Correspondent February 21, 2019 Canadian Ambassador to Israel Deb Lyons welcomed leaders from three of Canadas largest organizations in the…
February 18th, 2019 Posted by John Toon-Georgia Tech Mobile phones are increasingly more accessible for people with disabilities, but there are still some significant gaps…
What It’s Like to Be Blind in a World of People Distracted By Cellphones
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18/02/2019 I was born with optic atrophy, so I have a very narrow field of vision. I basically just see out of one corner of…
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Feb. 15, 2019 Copy machines capable of producing documents accessible to those with low vision or other sight impairment will…
Paralympic Medalists Check Accessibility of 2020 Tokyo Games Venue Area
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February 17, 2019 (Mainichi Japan) TOKYO — Paralympic medalists have inspected parts of the capital’s Koto Ward, host to two Tokyo 2020 swimming venues, to…