10/26/2016 03:45 pm ET
Lydia L. Callis
Sign Language Interpreter, Community Educator, Advocate. From 3 Generations of Deaf family. My website is http://signlanguagenyc.com
“Where do you work?” “What do you do for a living?” In America, these are among the first questions a new acquaintance will ask us. This simple inquiry reflects the cultural emphasis placed on work and career choice in the modern world. But for many, this dreaded question serves as a reminder that even work is a privilege.
By Karen Farkas, cleveland.com
on October 18, 2016 at 10:10 AM
OXFORD, Ohio – Miami University, which settled a lawsuit filed by a blind student, has reached a proposed consent decree with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by using inaccessible classroom and other technologies.
Ottawa Citizen
Jon Willing, October 17, 2016
OC Transpo is using two colours to differentiate the Confederation Line LRT and Trillium Line. It might cause problems for people who have a red-green colour blindness, an advocate says.
OC Transpo is confident the red and green lines marking the O-Train Confederation Line and Trillium Line on a new rail map won’t cause problems for people with a specific form of colour blindness.
Blog Canadian Labour and Employment Law
Baker & McKenzie
Jonathan D. Cocker.
Canada October 3 2016
True to their October 2015 campaign promise, the federal government has recently commenced a cross-country consultation process with Canadians aimed at developing national accessibility legislation.
by Pamela Hogle
October 3, 2016
Accessible technology is meaningless without accessible content: ‘Making a person’s computer accessible is one thing, but if the Internet is not accessible to them, it kind of doesn’t matter. They may be able to do word processing, but they’re not going to be able to get the information they need,’ said Dmitri Belser, executive director of Berkeley, California’s Center for Accessible Technology.
