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Ontario Marks National Access Awareness Week   

May 31, 2010 1:00 PM

McGuinty Government Breaking Down Barriers While Supporting Business

Ontario is celebrating National Access Awareness Week and marking the fifth anniversary of the province’s groundbreaking Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.


Accessibility at Universities is ‘a Moral Obligation’: Advocate

Posted by sam
on May 19th, 2010

“Disability is one element of the identity that makes a person whole,” says Rabia Kedhr, speaking in Brock’s Sankey Chamber.

As a university student, Rabia Kedhr was accommodated, but she wasn’t always included. And that’s something higher education needs to change, she says.


Bad Eyes Sees the PDF Light

By Geof Collis
Badeyes Design & Consulting
May 11, 2010

Ok, you win!! I’ve been converted!!

I’ve been advocating for years the need for providing an alternate document along with the Portable Document Format (PDF) because all I ever received was an inaccessible PDF.

I asked nicely over and over again. I tried real hard to be patient. When push came to shove, I filed a Human Rights complaint. Still to this day your websites are littered with inaccessible PDFs. I almost gave up!!!

Well, almost.


Cobourg Held Up as Pioneer in Accessible Voting

Posted By CECILIA NASMITH NORTHUMBERLAND TODAY
April 29, 2010

CCOBOURG– Willowdale MPP David Zimmer is holding up the Town of Cobourg as an example to emulate, as debate goes on at Queen’s Park over updates to the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.


No Online Option

By Jamie Smith tbnewswatch.com
April 27, 2010

Voters looking to phone, mail or cast their ballot by internet won’t get the chance this October after a recommendation was voted down by city council Monday night.