By Anna Taylor
November 24, 2009
Part 1, The Bathroom
Let me begin by saying, I am not an expert on all disabilities. I talk about what has worked for me because I live in a wheelchair. Depending on your unique situation some of these ideas will not work for you. Consider your situation and use these ideas to fit your needs.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Last night I froze watching my oldest child play hockey. It is part of the duty of a Canadian mother to tolerate this little ritual. Destruction got his second assist and though they lost the game, he played well. As I stood there, my body wracked in complete pain, I decided that it was time to make management aware of exactly how inaccessible their arena was.
November 12, 2009
On July 20 , 2009, the AODA Alliance wrote to three Ontario Government Ministers to ask what the McGuinty Government has done so far, and what else they plan to do to keep Premier McGuinty’s September 14, 2007 election promises to the AODA Alliance, on expanding school and professional trainees’ curricula to include education on ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities. Today we make public the answers we received from the Minister of Community and Social Services Madeleine Meilleur (responsible for implementing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act), the Minister of Education
Kathleen Wynne (responsible for schools) and the Minister of Training Colleges and Universities John Milloy (responsible for post-secondary education).
How Will You Remember Our Heros and What Will You Do to Combat Human Rights Abuses in Canada by Tim Hortons?
Whitby, Ontario, November 11, 2009:
Ask a soldier what he would be willing to fight for and probably a cup of Timmies would rank top ten on a dark cold night in Afghanistan. It is too bad that same soldier cannot be honoured or even respected back home by Tim Hortons; our government’s laws and their human rights agreements. These required Tim Hortons to provide accessibility for people with disabilities over eighteen years ago.
By Geof Collis
Badeyes Design and Consulting
October 31, 2009
Well it didn’t take long for me to find another so called “accessible website” through an article at http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/October2009/27/c3016.htmltitled “ONTARIO PROVINCIAL POLICE | OPP launches redesigned website enhancing public access to OPP information
“.
The Author states;
To be inclusive of people with disabilities, the website was designed to meet current accessibility standards.
What standards would that be?
Surely not Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0(WCAG), or even WCAG 1.0!
