Oct 13, 2016
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group announces a plan to develop WCAG 2.1, which builds on but does not supersede WCAG 2.0. The group would like input from stakeholders on this plan.
Monthly Archives: October 2016
Bell Media’s Flagship Radio Station NewsTalk 1010 Newly Redesigned Website Demonstrates Why We Need Enforcement!
After visiting their new site http://www.iheartradio.ca/newstalk-1010 it was clear they didn’t know anything about website accessibility or even the AODA.
It has been a long time since I’ve Audited a site with so many errors, the W3C Validator has a whopping 545 errors alone (Validator Results)
I also used my favourite Automated Tool for checking, Total Validator and it also came back with 382 errors (Total Validator Report, Word document(.docx)(, 249kb).
Blue Jays Strike Out with Service Dog
Human rights complaint says team won’t let him buy accessible seats online. By Hina AlamStaff Reporter
Mon., Oct. 10, 2016
A lawyer is crying foul about the Blue Jays’ ticket sales, complaining to the province’s Human Rights Tribunal that the club unlike the city’s other pro teams won’t let him buy handicapped seats online.
Sunny Ways? More Accessibility Legislation Coming
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.
Accessible eLearning Benefits All Learners
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.