By Karen McCall
May 29, 2012
On June 1, 2012, the County of Brant is sending out letters telling the people with disabilities who live in the County that they will no longer have access to the specialized transportation service known as County Service due to “abuses” of the service.
The specialized transportation service has two parts: subsidized fares due to the size of the County and lack of public transportation; and a fleet of accessible vehicles.
By Geof Collis
May 25, 2012
How can they perform expensive Audits if their own website isn’t compliant?
Remember, just because it’s the CNIB, doesn’t make them an Authority or experts on web Accessibility and you’d be well advised to get other proposals if you want to go the Audit route.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynews.ca/?p=2505
BUT THAT IS NOT THE END — AODA ALLIANCE ASKS FOR MEETING WITH CHIEF ELECTORAL OFFICER TO RE-CONSIDER THAT REFUSAL
May 24, 2012
SUMMARY
Ontarians with disabilities have just come face-to-face with yet another roadblock in our 13-year-long campaign for fully accessible elections in Ontario for voters with disabilities. Undeterred, we tenaciously press ahead!
TODAY IS TTC ANNUAL ACCESSIBILITY PUBLIC FORUM
May 10, 2012
SUMMARY
The May 10, 2012 on-line edition of the Toronto Star includes a guest column on barriers that face people who try to enforce their human rights in Ontario. We set out that guest column below. It is co-written by AODA Alliance chair David Lepofsky and the director of the Metro Toronto Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic, Avvy Go. Our position on the need to reform Ontario’s human rights system, set out in this guest column, is fortified when we team up with respected community leaders like Ms. Go. She advocates for human rights from the perspective of racialized communities.
SEVEN CABINET MINISTERS REPLY TO OUR INQUIRIES BUT GIVE VERY FEW SPECIFICS
May 4, 2012
SUMMARY
In the 2007 Ontario election, Premier Dalton McGuinty wrote us to make a series of important election promises on the issue
of disability accessibility. We found it frustrating at times over the next four years when we tried to get the Government to
