Boy, I just keep linking to more surveys. This one is from the Ontario Human Rights Commission. They’re researching the barriers faced by those with a mental health or addiction disability. They want to hear from those with a mental health disability in Ontario, or anyone who cares about someone with such a disability. They …
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You Can Walk In, But We Don’t Have To Take You And We Don’t Have To Tell You That
I should start off by saying that no, I didn’t have a bad experience at the walk-in clinic today, in fact it was pretty great from a blind dude needing customer service perspective. Everybody I dealt with was nice and helpful, so thank you, Campus Estates. I’m glad I can say that, because if I …
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>Survey On The Disappearance of Full Service Gas Stations
>This is pretty cool. Back a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned the decreasing presence of full service gas stations. Well, someone is conducting a survey so they can bring those concerns to government bodies. Eddie Rice is hoping that stronger language can be built into legislation that stipulates that folks have to assist those …
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I Need Feul For Addressing A Problem
Since I don’t drive, I don’t even think about full serve versus self-serve gas stations, and how there are fewer and fewer full-service stations to be found. But it seems this is the case. This is no big deal for folks who have no trouble getting out of their car and pumping their own gas. …
Not Everybody’s As Cool As Guelph
Wow! While I was busy raving about how awesome our voting process was, Jen, who often sends us ideas and stuff was having one hell of a horrible experience while voting in Hamilton’s municipal election. Here is what she said happened to her. Well in the first place they didn’t have the accessible machines available …
Be Careful Of Alternative Flash Player Updater 1.0.0.3
Edit: It appears the programmer isn’t so bad. It is a problem between the layout of the dialog and screenreaders. See this post. Although I stand by what I said in a general sense, forcing software on folks is not what he’s all about. For once, I’m very happy to say I was wrong. Why …
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At US Airways, It’s Every Man For Himself
Thanks, Jen, for the lead on this one. So, we have learned that United breaks guitars and US Airways breaks spirits. Johnnie Tuitel, a motivational speaker with CP, was flying to one of his speaking engagements when he was told by a gate agent at US Airways that he could not fly alone because he …
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Disability Services Aren’t Being Cut At The University Of Winnipeg
Remember last week when I posted about the University of Winnipeg’s plans to cut services for students with disabilities? Well, they’ve realized that was a big, big mistake. Apparently, according to John Corlett, a man I wouldn’t trust as far as I could throw, the memo was leaked before it could be vetted or signed …
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Help Shape Accessible Voting For Ontario
I got a little email this morning that I figured I’d pass on. I bet I got it because of commenting on their accessible voting plan. There’s a small part of me, a small crazy part, that’s thinking about going for this. But I don’t know where the meetings are, how long they are, and …
Accessibility Shmaccessibility
If you’re going to the University of Winnipeg, and you have a disability, things are about to get really hard really fast. Because they had a 20% increase in folks with disabilities enrolling, they decided to be boneheads and cut services with no regard for the students who need them. Services including notetaking and extra …