The issue at hand applies here, too. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act is going to require massive changes in making transportation services accessible. This includes public transit and taxis. One in seven people in Ontario has a disability, according to the provincial government, and that number will rise as the population ages.
Read more at
http://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/?p=2584
Monday, April, 09, 2012pbell lcampbell@metrolandnorthmedia.com
Paul Oullette shows Nora Long and Dorthea Carvell how easily he can access the new city buses.
Remi Renaud secures Paul Ouellette’s wheelchair inside the bus
NORTH BAY – Freedom. That’s the word Dale Norton uses to describe the City’s commitment to providing totally accessible public transit by 2013 and the two new state-of-the-art buses about to hit North Bay streets.
April 9, 2012
Barbara Turnbull
LIFE REPORTER
After four years of knocking on the side door of a local Starbucks to have her latte brought out to her, wheelchair user Joanne Smith was thrilled last October when the property owner installed an access ramp.
“It was a great ramp,” she says. “Built to (Ontario’s building) code, with two railings.”
SAMPLING FROM MEDIA AROUND ONTARIO ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE AODA
April 5, 2012
SUMMARY
One way to monitor progress in our campaign for a fully accessible Ontario is to see what the media around Ontario is reporting on this topic. It is not scientific, but it certainly can be interesting.
If restaurants do not provide large-print or Braille menus, they must require their employees to read their entire menu to their legally blind customers.
Failure to read….
Read more at
http://www.amenu.ca/the-fast-food-menu-and-a-restaurants-duty-to-a-legally-blind-patron-under-the-ada/
