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CRTC mandates standards for text-based accessibility messaging services
ByDavid Best December 14, 2018September 23, 2026

Sameer Chhabra, MobileSyrup, DECember 14, 2018 Canada’s telecommunications watchdog has issued a decision mandating standards for message relay services. According to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s (CRTC) December 14th, 2018 decision, groups that provide text-based message relay services (MRS) like teletypewriter relay (TTY) and internet protocol relay (IP relay) will be required to implement…

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Canada accedes to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
ByDavid Best December 3, 2018September 23, 2026

CNW, Employment and Social Development Canada, December 3, 2018 the Honourable Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Public Services and Procurement and Accessibility, along with the ministers of Justice, Foreign Affairs and Canadian Heritage, announced that, with the support of all provinces and territories, Canada has acceded to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on…

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Advocates urge Senate to improve national accessibility law
ByDavid Best December 3, 2018September 23, 2026

Laurie Monsebraaten, Social Justice Reporter, The Star, December 3, 2018 Disability activists say Ottawa has ignored their calls to strengthen Canada’s first national accessibility legislation and are urging the Senate to intervene. More than 90 groups, including the Council of Canadians with Disabilities and Ontario-based ARCH Disability Law, say the proposed Accessible Canada Act, passed…

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Canada’s House of Commons Unanimously Passes Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
ByDavid Best November 29, 2018September 23, 2026

Greg Thomson, AODA Alliance Update, November 29, 2018 On Tuesday, November 27, 2018, Canada’s House of Commons unanimously voted on Third Reading to pass Bill C-81, the proposed Accessible Canada Act. A number of amendments were made to the bill while it was being debated at the House of Commons’ Standing Committee that held public…

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Canadian Survey on Disability, 2017
ByDavid Best November 28, 2018September 23, 2026

Statistics Canada, The Daily, November 28, 2018 An estimated one in five Canadians (or 6.2 million) aged 15 years and over had one or more disabilities that limited them in their daily activities, according to new findings from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD). For many of these Canadians, challenges and obstacles in their…

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Accessibility advocates want the Ontario government to put them to work
ByDavid Best November 13, 2018September 23, 2026

Taylor Simmons, CBC News, November 13, 2018 Committees working on provincial accessibility standards say their work’s been paused for too long. Accessibility advocates say the government hasn’t put several Standards Development Committees (SDCs), special groups looking at how to get rid of accessibility barriers in the province, back to work almost five months after the spring…

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Universities still struggle to make websites accessible to all
ByDavid Best November 6, 2018September 23, 2026

Lindsay McKenzie, Inside Higher Ed, November 6, 2018 Hundreds of colleges and universities across the country are currently under investigation by the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights for failing to make their websites accessible to people with disabilities. Universities that receive federal financial aid are required by law to make reasonable accommodations to ensure…

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Ontario dad says program for kids with disabilities has run out of cash for the year
ByDavid Best November 1, 2018September 23, 2026

Paula Duhatschek, CBC News, November 1, 2018 An Ontario dad is calling on the government to be honest with parents after he says he was told this week that a provincial program for children with disabilities had run out of cash for the year. In July, Moffatt found out his son was eligible – though…

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In a powerful Open Letter sent to the Federal Government, An Extraordinary Lineup of Thirty-four Disability Organizations Unite to Press for Key Amendments
ByDavid Best October 31, 2018September 23, 2026

Greg Thomson, AODA Alliance, October 31, 2018 A major effort has just been unveiled by Canada’s disability community to get the Federal Government to amend Bill C-81, the Federal Government’s proposed Accessible Canada Act, to transform it into a strong and effective bill. Thirty-four disability organizations in Canada have united to jointly send the Federal…

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AODA review hopes to address what it means to be accessible
ByDavid Best October 31, 2018September 23, 2026

Matt Vis, TBNewsWatch.com, October 31, 2018 Former Ontario lieutenant governer David Onley, who is conducting a legislative review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, held a town hall session in Thunder Bay on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, passed in 2005, gave the province 20 years to…

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CRTC mandates standards for text-based accessibility messaging services

Canada accedes to the Optional Protocol to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Advocates urge Senate to improve national accessibility law

Canada’s House of Commons Unanimously Passes Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act

Canadian Survey on Disability, 2017

Accessibility advocates want the Ontario government to put them to work

Universities still struggle to make websites accessible to all

Ontario dad says program for kids with disabilities has run out of cash for the year

In a powerful Open Letter sent to the Federal Government, An Extraordinary Lineup of Thirty-four Disability Organizations Unite to Press for Key Amendments

AODA review hopes to address what it means to be accessible

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