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How Accessible is Voting for People With Disabilities?

Also: How to check if your polling station meets your accessibility requirements Tyler Bloomfield , CBC News
Posted: Sep 15, 2021

For some people, voting isn’t as simple as showing up to the polls on election day and casting a ballot.

From getting voter information to upholding the privacy of a ballot, there are barriers that exist in the voting process for people with disabilities.


Bluewater Decides Against Captioning Recorded Council Meetings

Author of the article: Dan Rolph
Publishing date:
Dec 29, 2020

Council meetings will no longer be available in a recorded state after councillors decided against providing captioned versions of council recordings.

During the Dec. 21 regular council meeting, Bluewater clerk Chandra Alexander presented a report to councillors which outlined the municipality’s obligations according to new provincial criteria being included in the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) to provide captioning for recorded council meetings.