15 Moments Within the Fight for Disability Rights – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The disability civil rights movement has many distinct narratives, but the prevailing themes are of community, justice and equity. As with every other civil rights movement, the fight for disability rights is one that challenges negative attitudes and pushes back against oppression. But it is also more complex. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/15-moments-within-the-fight-for-disability-rights/ Related

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Accessibility News July 25,2020 Update – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/acnewsca AbleDocs Inc. is excited to be joining the Accessibility News team to ensure all documents are made accessible and compliant. AbleDocs is the only organization to guarantee the compliance of the files we produce and back that up with a $10,000,000 guarantee. We look forward to working with you […]

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AODA Alliance Endorses ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Brief that Shows in Even More Detail How the Ford Government’s Revised Draft Medical Triage Protocol, Now Undergoing Consultation, Would Discriminate Against COVID-19 Patients with Disabilities If There Were Not Enough Ventilators for All Patients Needing Them – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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The ARCH Disability Law Centre has made public a superb new brief to the Ford Government on the serious disability human rights problems with the revised draft medical triage protocol on which the Ford Government is now holding a consultation. The AODA Alliance strongly endorses ARCH’s brief and congratulates ARCH on excellent work. ARCH’s brief […]

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Tell Toronto City Council Not to Subject Canada’s Largest City to the Dangers, Personal Injuries and New Disability Barriers that Electric Scooters Cause – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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At its meeting on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, Toronto City Council has on its agenda the question whether to unleash electric scooters (e-scooters) on the people of Canada’s largest city. The AODA Alliance calls on Toronto’s Mayor John Tory and City Council to resoundingly reject e-scooters. They are a proven danger to the safety of […]

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Air Canada Lays Off Blind Longtime Employee, Saying It Can’t Accommodate Him Amid Pandemic – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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In 2016, Sean Fitzgibbon starred in an Air Canada promotional video about inclusion. It showed him on the job, working as a stock-keeper. He was also given the company’s award of excellence for his service. So it came as a shock when he got a letter saying the airline could no longer accommodate his medical […]

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Bus Driver with One Eye Wins Discrimination Case; Judge Nixes Ontario Licence Rule – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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A city bus driver whose licence was revoked after she lost her eye to cancer has won her battle to have the relevant provincial regulation declared unconstitutional. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/bus-driver-with-one-eye-wins-discrimination-case-judge-nixes-ontario-licence-rule/ Related

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New Report Reveals that At Majority of Ontario’s School Boards, Each School Principal Is a Law Unto Themselves, With Arbitrary Power to Exclude a Student From School – Real Risk of a Rash of Exclusion of Some Students with Disabilities When Schools Re-Open – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Parents of a third of a million Ontario K-12 students with disabilities have much to fear when schools re-open. A ground-breaking report by the non-partisan AODA Alliance (unveiled today, summary below) shows that for much of Ontario, each school principal is a law unto themselves, armed with a sweeping, arbitrary power to refuse to allow […]

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COVID-19 Causing Long Delays for Guide Dogs, Charity Says – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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When the COVID-19 pandemic forced people inside their homes in mid-March, the loss of freedom was felt particularly hard by blind and partly blind Canadians waiting for guide dogs. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/covid-19-causing-long-delays-for-guide-dogs-charity-says/ Related

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How COVID-19 Improved Accessibility for Job Seekers With Disabilities – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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As businesses scrambled to create remote work infrastructure following pandemic-driven shutdowns, they may have also unintentionally advanced accessibility for workers with disabilities. Read more athttp://www.accessibilitynewsinternational.com/how-covid-19-improved-accessibility-for-job-seekers-with-disabilities/ Related

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Three Recommendations for Accessible Remote Learning – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Adapting to the realities of remote schooling has been challenging. Since the COVID-19 pandemic sent our province into a state of emergency, many students have had to turn bedrooms into offices, kitchen tables into classrooms and parking lots into hotspots. While all Ontario learners have had to adapt to overcome barriers, those barriers have been […]

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