Companies Face Website Accessibility Deadline

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TORONTO – Time is running out for Ontario companies to show their websites comply with new standards making them more accessible for people with disabilities or face fines of up to $100,000. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/companies-face-website-accessibility-deadline/ Related

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With the Shift to Online Learning, Students With Disabilities Face New Barriers – Accessibility News International

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They may not have to navigate campus, but online learning has brought new challenges By John Loeppky December 1, 2020 Shae Sackman is a University of Regina student who uses the school’s Centre for Student Accessibility to arrange the accommodations that they require for their studies (Sackman uses the they/them pronouns), including a quiet space […]

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New captioned Video is Unveiled Today on Hardships People with Disabilities Face During the COVID-19 Pandemic, To Mark This Sunday, the 26th Anniversary of the Birth of Ontario’s Grassroots Movement for Disability Accessibility – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Happy birthday to us! This Sunday, November 29, 2020, is the 26th anniversary of the birth of Ontario’s unstoppable grassroots non-partisan movement that successfully campaigned for a decade from 1994 to 2005 to get the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act passed, and that has tenaciously campaigned since then to get the AODA effectively implemented. […]

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What Is the Ford Government Doing to Ensure Patients with Disabilities Don’t Face Discrimination in Access to Life-Saving Critical care If the Surge in COVID-19 Cases Overloads Ontario’s Hospitals? – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Since early in the COVID-19 pandemic last spring, the AODA Alliance together with other disability advocates, has been pressing the Ford Government to ensure that patients with disabilities are not discriminated against because of their disability in getting access to needed critical medical care, in the event that a surge in COVID-19 cases exceeds the […]

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Ensuring that Patients with Disabilities Don’t Face Discrimination in Access to Critical Medical Care If There is a Second Wave of COVID-19 that Overwhelms Ontario Hospitals-A new Brief by the AODA Alliance Is Made Public Today – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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If there is a second wave of COVID-19 that is so severe that hospitals don’t have enough critical care beds and services for all patients who need that medical care, who will decide which patients get critical care and which ones will get refused? Read more athttps://aoda.ca/ensuring-that-patients-with-disabilities-dont-face-discrimination-in-access-to-critical-medical-care-if-there-is-a-second-wave-of-covid-19-that-overwhelms-ontario-hospitals-a-new-brief-by-the/ Related

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Ford Government Acknowledges Ontario Students with Disabilities Face Added Hardships Trying to learn at Home During COVID-19 But Announces No Comprehensive Plan to Remove the Added Disability Barriers that Online Learning Creates for Them – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Today, as the first media question at Premier Doug Ford’s Queen’s Park COVID-19 briefing, the Toronto Star told the premier that parents of special needs children have told the Star that they are particularly struggling at this time and that the Government needs to take a leading role in making sure that their children are […]

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CERB ‘A Slap In the Face’ for Ontarians Scraping By On Disability Payments – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Federal aid for people affected by pandemic nearly double provincial disability support Omar Dabaghi-PachecoCBC News, May 3, 2020 Some Ontarians who rely on provincial disability support say the federal government’s new emergency benefit for people affected by COVID-19 is laying bare a double standard when it comes to the question of what’s considered a livable […]

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Pressing Need for the Ford Government to Ensure that Hospital Patients with Communication Disabilities Face No Barriers to Using Technology that Lets Them Effectively Communicate – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.

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Even More Media Coverage of Disability COVID Issues Here are three more important media reports that focus directly or indirectly on disability issues during the COVID-19 crisis. All are set out below. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/pressing-need-for-the-ford-government-to-ensure-that-hospital-patients-with-communication-disabilities-face-no-barriers-to-using-technology-that-lets-them-effectively-communicate/ Related

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