Protect Torontonians with Disabilities from the Dangers of Electric Scooters – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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How to Help In a Nutshell Please take five minutes to help us stop Toronto from allowing electric scooters (e-scooters), a serious new danger to the safety and accessibility of people with disabilities, seniors and the public. If you live in or visit Toronto, please email Toronto Mayor John Tory at mayor_tory@toronto.ca You can also […]

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Disability Is Missing From the Picture – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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While 22% of Canada’s population lives with a disability, that number is not reflected in our advertisements, films, television shows, books, and on the radio. That is why Dear Everybody aims to create a shift in the media landscape by asking brands, companies, broadcasters, and producers to start including disability in the picture. We encourage […]

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ODSP Recipients Calling for Help, Exploring Assisted Dying – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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by Cynthia Mulligan and Mahnoor YawarCity News, Sept. 2, 2020 COVID-19 has proven itself as not an equal opportunity crisis, revealing cracks in the system that leave the most vulnerable exposed. Low income and racialized communities have been hit the hardest, but there is another group that feels abandoned and ignored – people with disabilities. […]

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Medical Practice Sued for Discriminatory Policy That Jeopardizes Patients with Disabilities – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Yesterday, following the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”), Disability Rights Advocates filed a putative class action lawsuit against First Urology, challenging the medical practice’s illegal policy of refusing to help patients with disabilities transfer from wheelchairs or other mobility devices to examination tables and diagnostic equipment, in violation of the ADA […]

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Families, Advocates of Students With Disabilities Seek Clarity in School Reopening Plans – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Students with disabilities face extra complications heading back to school in a pandemic, including how to access support services, and parents say more planning was needed from governments. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/families-advocates-of-students-with-disabilities-seek-clarity-in-school-reopening-plans/ Related

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Accessibility News September 5,2020 Update – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/acnewsca AbleDocs is proud to support Accessibility News! With AbleDocs’ Document Accessibility Services, we are able to provide full content accessibility solutions that are unmatched by any other provider in the marketplace. We are the only organization that guarantees the compliance of every document we produce, and we back that […]

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More Media Coverage of the Stress and Uncertainty facing Parents of Students with Disabilities on the Eve of the Labour Day Weekend – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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On the eve of the Labour Day weekend, parents of a third of a million students with disabilities in Ontario remain very anxious about what their children will face as schools re-open in Ontario over the next days. The Ford Government has still announced no comprehensive plans to ensure that students with disabilities are fully […]

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Girl From Kenora, Ontario Inspires House of Commons Petition to Promote Accessibility for Visually Impaired – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Petition calls on government to require braille or tactile symbols on consumer product warning labels Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/girl-from-kenora-ontario-inspires-house-of-commons-petition-to-promote-accessibility-for-visually-impaired/ Related

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ARCH Disability Law Centre Identifies Even More Problems with the Revised Draft Protocol for Deciding which COVID-19 Patients, Needing Critical Medical Care, Would Not Get That Care If there Is a Future Shortage of Critical Care Beds – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The ARCH Disability Law Centre made public a very compelling, well-written submission to the Ford Government’s Bioethics Table. The Ford Government appointed the Bioethics Table, physicians and bioethicists, to advise it on how critical care should be rationed among patients if there is a shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/arch-disability-law-centre-identifies-even-more-problems-with-the-revised-draft-protocol-for-deciding-which-covid-19-patients-needing-critical-medical-care-would-not-get-that-care-if-there-is-a-futu/ Related

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