CBC News
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 3:50 PM ET
A new technology called “hearing loop” helps block out ambient noise for those who have hearing aids. (Matt Dunham/Associated Press)
Advocates for the hearing impaired are hoping a technology that drastically reduces background noise for the hearing impaired will find a home in public
spaces across Canada.
Special to Financial Post
Sep 13, 2011
By Suzanne Wintrob
Ontario mandates business accessibility for the disabled
One in seven people in Ontario have a disability, a number that is expected to reach one in five within 20 years because of an aging population. No wonder then that the Ontario government is calling on private and not-for-profit organizations to make their workplaces more accessible. The new Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) forces organizations with 20 employees or more to conform to mandatory standards in customer service, employment, transportation, information and communications and new construction. Customer service is the immediate priority, carrying a Jan. 1, 2012 deadline, and the other standards will be phased in over the next decade.
8/18/2011 6:00:00 AM By: Grant Buckler
Under the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act, private businesses operating in the province will have to meet new accessibility standards for customer service by the beginning of next year. Other standards
will follow over the next few years.
But the law, passed in 2005, really just adds specifics to a responsibility businesses across the country have had under human rights legislation for about a quarter century.
by Ron Brooks
THE BRAILLE FORUM, Volume L July-August 2011 No. 1
In September of 2009, my employer established an internal committee called the North American Diversity Council, whose mission is to
develop and implement programs that promote a culture which welcomes and fosters diversity and that helps us to increase the diversity of our
suppliers and executive and managerial employees.
