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Blind Customers Locked Out by Bank Web Upgrades

By Sally Abrahams & Lee Kumutat
BBC Radio 4, Money Box
6 May 2018

From the “point of view of someone who can’t see” his bank’s upgrade is “appalling”, says Jeff

HSBC, Metro Bank and Halifax have all admitted to failings after redesigning websites that made it hard for their blind or visually impaired customers to access full services online.

Blind Customers Locked Out by Bank Web Upgrades. Read full article.

Please Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliances Draft Brief on the Proposed Recommendations for Revisions to the 2011 Employment Accessibility Standard that the Employment Standards Development Committee Has Circulated for Public Comment`

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities

April 27, 2018

SUMMARY

On March 20, 2018, the Ontario Government invited public comment, which it would give to the Employment Standards Development Committee. That Committee is conducting a review of the 2011 Employment Accessibility Standard, which the Government enacted under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. It aims at removing and preventing workplace barriers that impede employees and job-seekers with disabilities from getting and keeping a job.

Please Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliances Draft Brief on the Proposed Recommendations for Revisions to the 2011 Employment Accessibility Standard that the Employment Standards Development Committee Has Circulated for Public Comment`. Read full article.

‘There was no sympathy’: Brampton Mom Says H&M Store Discriminated Against Her Son With Autism

The incident occurred at Bramalea City Centre on April 11
Adrian Cheung, CBC
Posted: Apr 26, 2018

Marva Richardson, left, says employees at a Brampton H&M store were not willing to accommodate the needs of her son Jared (right.)

A Brampton mother is calling for changes in training and an apology from the retail giant H&M after an incident in which she said an employee lacked “compassion and understanding” for her son, who lives with autism.

‘There was no sympathy’: Brampton Mom Says H&M Store Discriminated Against Her Son With Autism. Read full article.

AODA Alliance Writes Accessibility Minister Tracy MacCharles to Request Modest But Important Improvements to the Way Accessibility Standards are Developed in Ontario Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities http://www.aodaalliance.org aodafeedback@gmail.com Twitter: @aodaalliance

April 23, 2018

SUMMARY

The AODA Alliance has again written to Ontario’s Accessibility Minister, Tracy MacCharles. In this new letter, we ask for a series of modest but important adjustments to the process by which accessibility standards are developed under the AODA. None of these requests requires any change to the law. The minister can quickly do everything we ask, within her mandate as the minister responsible for the AODA.

AODA Alliance Writes Accessibility Minister Tracy MacCharles to Request Modest But Important Improvements to the Way Accessibility Standards are Developed in Ontario Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act. Read full article.

AODA Alliance Report on 5 Years of Lax AODA Enforcement Comes Up in the Legislature and the Media

AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Files Another Freedom of Information Application to Get Needed Information on AODA Implementation and Enforcement

Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities http://www.aodaalliance.org aodafeedback@gmail.com Twitter: @aodaalliance

April 19, 2018

SUMMARY

1. Immediate Fall-out from the Release of the AODA Alliance’s Report on Five Years of Lax AODA Enforcement

AODA Alliance Report on 5 Years of Lax AODA Enforcement Comes Up in the Legislature and the Media. Read full article.

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