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Domino’s plaintiff to SCOTUS: Give ADA web accessibility case law time to develop

August 15, 2019 | Source: Reuters |

a. Domino’s Wants Supreme Court To Limit Disabilities’ Rights Law

August 15, 2019 | Source: Media Post |

b. Plaintiff Robles Files His Opposition To Domino’s Petition For Certiorari

August 14, 2019 | Source: Seyfarth Shaw |

c. Domino’s and the Web are Failing the Disabled

August 16, 2019 | Source: WIRED |

d. Domino’s asks Supreme Court to weigh in on website accessibility

August 19, 2019 | Source: Eversheds Sutherland |

e. The internet’s accessibility reckoning

August 20, 2019 | Source: Axios |

f. Domino’s is at the center of an ‘internet accessibility’ fight, and the oven’s heating up

August 21, 2019 | Source: The Hustle & The Good Men Project |

Business groups are clamoring for the U.S. Supreme Court to dam a deluge of litigation over the accessibility of their websites and mobile apps to disabled customers. As I told you last month, trade groups and right-leaning public interest shops have filed amicus briefs urging the justices to grant review of a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that allowed a blind Domino’s customer to move ahead with claims that the pizza company violated the Americans with Disabilities Act because its website and mobile app were not fully accessible to him…

Summer camp providing classic Maine experiences for kids with disabilities

August 15, 2019 | Source: WABI |

“That’s our tagline. It really is all about them figuring all those pieces out and learning about themselves.” Nearly 100 kids with disabilities are able to enjoy a real Maine summer camp experience week thanks to Pine Tree Camp. “It’s a traditional summer camp but everything is accessible. We don’t really think about accessibility or how we are going to do it but if someone wants to do it we make it work.” Since 1945 the camp has welcomed all who could benefit regardless of their disability…

Feds: Polling Sites Changing For People With Disabilities

August 15, 2019 | Source: Jersey Shore Online |

After federal investigators determined that some polling locations would be difficult for people to visit if they had vision or mobility challenges, the county set forth plans to fix the remaining issues to make the sites compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. The federal government surveyed more than 100 polling places in Ocean and Union counties in the years 2015 through 2019, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Many of these were found to have physical barriers that might make it difficult for someone with vision or mobility impairments to vote…

Better and faster subway access: New Yorkers with disabilities know too well that the MTA’s elevator service is out of order

August 16, 2019 | Source: New York Daily News |

When the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law in 1990 it was celebrated as a new era of accessibility throughout the nation. However, over the past three decades, New York City transit riders with disabilities have been perennially disappointed and left behind by the MTA’s capital priorities. That must end now. The drumbeat for transit justice has grown louder in recent years. Transit and disability advocates have reignited the conversation on accessibility…

How Paralympic Medalist Tucker Dupree Is Helping Teach Others About Living With A Disability

August 16, 2019 | Source: TeamUSA.org |

Four-time U.S. Paralympic medalist Tucker Dupree used to do a lot of public speaking during his competitive swimming days. His talks would often challenge the audience to think differently about people with disabilities. “I’d always open my speech with, ‘As a person with a disability, I belong to one of the largest minorities in the world, and on top of that, it’s a minority that anyone in this room can become a part of at any point in their life,’” he said. “You can acquire a physical disability at any point in your life, and disability comes in every culture and in every color…

Parsons Alumni Launch FFORA, a New Brand for the Disabled Community

August 16, 2019 | Source: The New School News |

Close to 60 million people in the United States have a disability; more than 3 million use wheelchairs. In recent years, the fashion industry has made attempts to address the lack of fashionable and functional products for disabled people, a traditionally underserved community, with adaptive designs such as magnetic closures and easy-to-zip pieces. Few brands focus on designing for people with disabilities, but with the recent launch of FFORA, Lucy Jones, Fashion Design ’15, is hoping to change the way the industry sees the disabled community…

State to probe DOE special-education schools after Post exposé

August 16, 2019 | Source: New York Post |

The state comptroller will audit conditions at the city’s special education schools — after a series of Post articles exposed harrowing conditions at a Queens facility for disabled kids last month. State officials sent schools Chancellor Richard Carranza a letter Tuesday asking for the Department of Education’s compliance with the probe, slated to launch at the end of August. “The Office of the State Comptroller has scheduled an audit of health, safety and accessibility conditions in the New York City Department of Education’s District 75,” the letter reads…

Medicare must protect access to innovative treatments for seniors

August 17, 2019 | Source: The Hill |

The Trump administration has made patient access to innovative treatments a critical priority and enjoyed great success with the “right to try” act and regulatory changes at the agency level. Yet impediments to access remain as a result of bureaucratic drag, leaving some critical treatment options available for patients with private insurance at arm’s length for Medicare patients. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma recently lamented that bureaucratic barriers can limit patient access to groundbreaking new treatments noting, “Innovation has remained adversely affected by government roadblocks.”…

5 Steps to Disclosing an Invisible Disability at Work

August 20, 2019 | Source: The Muse |

Once upon a time, I had a high-level job at a national magazine. I was up for a promotion to editor-in-chief and was invited to lunch with the company’s VP. He was a tall guy with legs as long as a giraffe’s and walked at warp speed. He didn’t know that I have rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which causes me debilitating foot pain. I’d disclosed it to my immediate supervisor right after I was diagnosed because I was unsure how my new medications would affect me. But for privacy reasons, she was the only person I’d told at work…

Female Founders Who Are Moving The Adaptive Apparel Market Forward

August 20, 2019 | Source: Forbes |

The adaptive apparel market is booming, and it’s about time. 1 in 5 Americans have a disability, and for too long, the apparel markets have offered few adaptive options for them. Adaptive apparel refers to clothing that offers alternative methods for dressing and undressing, such as snap buttons and velcro, whereas conventional buttons and zippers can be challenging to manipulate. Bigger name retailers such as Target, Zappos, and Tommy Hilfiger are expanding their product lines to be more inclusive, and entrepreneurs around the world are contributing innovations to make adaptive apparel more accessible…

L.A. County voting system highlights trade-offs between security, accessibility

August 20, 2019 | Source: Greenwich Time |

Starting in 2020, Los Angeles County’s 5.2 million voters will cast their ballots on new machines that the county had custom built over a decade to be highly accessible to citizens with all manner of disabilities and who speak 13 languages. The new machines mark the biggest challenge in years to the highly consolidated voting machine industry in the United States in which just three companies control more than 90 percent of the market. The dominant players have faced withering criticism from security advocates and lawmakers…

UW student helps to develop online accessibility tool

August 20, 2019 | Source: The Record & GDN |

A University of Waterloo student has helped develop a new tool to make online navigation easier for people with visual impairments. The prototype, dubbed VERSE — Voice Exploration, Retrieval, and Search — merges voice-based virtual assistants on devices like phones and smart speakers with screen readers, which can read out the contents of a web page to the user. Alexandra Vtyurina, a PhD candidate at UW’s David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, collaborated with researchers at Microsoft and University of Washington assistant professor Leah Findlater during an internship at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Wash. last summer…

Industry reviews creative air travel accessibility solutions

August 21, 2019 | Source: Runway Girl Network |

The number of passengers who will need special assistance traveling by air is expected to grow over the coming decades, and airlines face pressure to make air travel more accessible. At the upcoming Aircraft Interiors Expo in Los Angeles, co-located with the APEX EXPO, Jetliner Cabins author and former airline industry executive, Jennifer Coutts Clay, will make a keynote presentation on accessibility, and lead a panel discussion about the challenges faced by disabled passengers and passengers with restricted mobility (PRMs)…

This young researcher studies wild animals. Science’s bias against disability won’t stop her

August 21, 2019 | Source: PBS NewsHour |

As a field biologist, Charlotte Devitz traverses the University of Michigan campus scooping up squirrels, trying to understand what causes some to boldly steal pizza from people’s hands while others hide at the drop of a hat. She weighs, measures and tags them, and then drops them into a custom-made box that allows her to watch their behavior. Then she sets them free to scale another tree or gnaw on another nut. A little more than a year ago, she wasn’t sure this work toward a master’s degree — vital to her future career as a biologist — would be possible…

How Steep Is That Sidewalk? A Digital Map for People With Disabilities

August 21, 2019 | Source: YES! Magazine |

Most people know about Seattle’s rain, but they’re surprised to learn that the city, especially the downtown area, is steeper than Denver, the “Mile High City.” Seattle’s hills can render many buildings and businesses, including places like City Hall, inaccessible to people with mobility needs. For those people, apps such as Google Maps are not especially helpful because they show only the fastest way to get from point A to point B; nonmotorized routes are usually calculated based on the assumption that people will be on foot and can get into any entrance…

Ride-Hailing Revolution Leaves Some People With Disabilities Behind

August 21, 2019 | Source: NPR (Podcast) |

Disability rights advocates say transportation giants Lyft and Uber are not doing enough to ensure equal transportation access as required under federal law. Uber and Lyft transformed how people get around cities, but the ride-sharing revolution hasn’t included everyone. Many people with a disability who use wheelchairs say Lyft and Uber have substandard or non-existent service for them. Disability rights advocates say they see a pattern of exclusion that violates federal law. As NPR’s Eric Westervelt reports, they’ve taken legal action…

Why is there a Braille message on my e-scooter

August 22, 2019 | Source: Washington Post |

If that Braille message on the e-scooter you rented gave you pause, rest assured, it’s not “how-to-ride” instructions. No, blind people aren’t riding scooters. They do, however, need to know how to contact the scooter companies when they encounter the devices, which present a hazard when left lying around. “We may not ride it, but if we trip over it, we can read the Braille on it and find out who to report it to,” said Shawn Callaway, president of the D.C. Chapter of the National Federation of the Blind. “We want the Braille on them to identify the company and their contact information.”…

Olympic Peninsula man has Apple’s attention when it comes to adaptive tech

August 22, 2019 | Source: KING5.com |

When Ian Mackay was 26, a bike crash left him quadriplegic. The outdoor lover struggled for two years to adjust to his newly limited mobility. Then he realized the solution might be a strip of concrete less than a mile from his Port Angeles front door. Soon Ian became a fixture on the Olympic Discovery Trail. “It just made me feel like a grown man again. I mean I was out there and I didn’t feel disabled.” Hitting the road also gave him a cause: “I started doing some really long rides, and it was to encourage others to get outside…

New optic nerve therapy to offer aid to blind

August 22, 2019 | Source: The Asian Age |

Scientists are developing a technology that would circumvent the eyeball in order to deliver the message directly to the brain in case of visually impaired people. Researchers from EPFL in Switzerland and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Italy will be doing this by stimulating the optic nerve with intraneural electrode known as OpticSELINE. The study was published in the journal ‘Nature Biomedical Engineering’. “We believe that intraneural stimulation can be a valuable solution for several neuroprosthetic devices for sensory and motor function restoration. The translational potentials of this approach are indeed extremely promising,”…

ADA and Community Associations: Best Practices in Handling Requests

August 22, 2019 | Source: Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani |

Most people are generally familiar with the concept that hotels, restaurants, and other places of public accommodation are subject to the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”). However, as we have mentioned before, community associations can fall under the scope of the ADA as well. The ADA is a sweeping set of federal statutes that applies to places of public accommodation, amongst other entities. The ADA framework seeks to prohibit discrimination against disabled persons…

Jack Fact — Australian Bureau of Statistics data from 2015 reveals 4.3 million Australians report living with a disability. Of those aged 15 and over and living in a household, one in 12 reported experiencing discrimination or unfair treatment.

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International News

Doctors from US, UK and Australia Lend Support to Indian Disabled Doctors in Court Case

August 12, 2019 | Source: The Wire- India |

A number of doctors and doctors’ bodies from the US, UK and Australia have written letters expressing shock at India’s decision to bar people with certain levels of disabilities from applying to medical colleges. The letters say many people with disabilities work successfully as doctors in these countries. These letters have been filed in court by disability rights activist and doctor Satendra Singh, who in February this year challenged the government’s decision…

Venice fines Santiago Calatrava for slippery, inaccessible bridge

August 15, 2019 | Source: The Architect’s Newspaper- Italy |

Santiago Calatrava is being fined—again—for his work. This time it’s $87,000 for his Ponte della Costituzione, or Constitution Bridge, in Venice, Italy. An Italian court recently ruled that the Spanish architect needs to pay the city for cost over-runs and “negligence” in faulty design. According to The Telegraph, the 300-foot-long steel and glass piece of infrastructure ended up being weaker than intended. Completed in 2008, the project was controversial from the beginning. Protests and heated criticism over its placement rang out upon its announcement in 1999…

Disability agency in financial hot water hopeful provincial funding will be restored

August 15, 2019 | Source: CBC- Canada |

A Manitoba organization that helps people with disabilities may need to close its doors after going without the provincial funding it was accustomed to, its leaders say. Whitney Hodgins, the provincial council secretary for the Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities, said the organization has struggled to survive since it learned in 2017 of the cutback worth $50,000 per year. Last year, the organization said it had to lay off staff and reduce remaining staff to part-time hours…

DARE or not, colleges offer help for those who need it

August 15, 2019 | Source: Independent- Ireland |

The Disability Access Route to Education (DARE) is a nationwide programme that allows school-leavers (under the age of 23) whose disability has impacted on their education to enter third level on reduced points. The criteria that must be met by applicants are extremely strict. It is important to know that not all students with a disability or learning difficulty who may benefit from some support at third level qualify for DARE and some may not even have applied for it…

What Federally-Regulated Employers Need to Know About The Accessible Canada Act

August 15, 2019 | Source: McCarthy Tétrault- Canada |

The Accessible Canada Act (the “Act”) came into force on July 11, 2019.[1] The objective of the legislation is to achieve a barrier-free Canada on or before January 1, 2040. The legislation applies to federally regulated entities, including the federal public administration, federally regulated private sector, Canadian Forces, and Crown Corporations. The Act mirrors provincial accessibility statues, such as the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, by requiring organizations to remove barriers to full and equal participation of all persons in society…

Accessibility for the Disabled in Eskişehir

August 16, 2019 | Source: Railly News- Turkey |

Eskişehir Metropolitan Municipality, which gives great importance to accessibility in every point of the city and does not forget the disabled citizens in the projects it has implemented, also eliminates the obstacles with the free transportation services. With the projects implemented for disabled citizens exemplified Metropolitan Municipality in Turkey, it’s also about access to support disabled citizens living in the city. The Municipality provides free transportation support to disabled people, especially hospitals and public institutions, with its specially equipped vehicles working within the Disability Services Unit…

How to ensure differently-abled child gets education and stay connected with mainstream

August 16, 2019 | Source: Financial Express- India |

Anything is possible if we tap it the right way. Government is taking steps towards making the country accessible thus making it our responsibility to make the differently-abled feel better around us. Srikanth Bolla, MIT graduate in the US. He was rejected by Indian Institutes. Now Bolla has become a Tech entrepreneur, providing the job and encouraging the differently-abled for achieving their dreams without eyesight. India has 2.68 crore people who are differently-abled and the majority of them are males…

Y-Speak: Access for PWDs

August 17, 2019 | Source: Sun Star- Philippines |

Accessibility is important for peoples with disability (PWDs). Hence, laws like the Magna Carta for Disabled Persons or the Republic Act 7277 was enacted. This was made in order to grant the rights and privileges for disabled persons in the country. Some of the provisions stated in the constitution is the access to quality education and the assistance to disabled students. Disabled persons should be provided with ample opportunities to education and skill development. Academic institutions are encouraged to take any special needs into account especially when it comes to school facilities…

Mexico City’s Museums Get Creative To Make Exhibits Accessible For All

August 18, 2019 | Source: Global Press Journal- Mexico |

When Julio César Carballido saw online that there was a Mexican Sign Language(LSM)interpreter at Mexico City’s Popular Art Museum, his face lit up. “When I was a boy, there were no interpreters and I couldn’t understand the exhibitions,” Carballido says. His parents tried to explain the exhibits to him, but their limited sign language made it difficult. Still, his love for art and history compelled him to return. Now 44, Carballido follows the hands of Brenda Morán Durán, an LSM tour guide, through an exhibit of colorful textiles and clothing pieces…

Growing demand drives Japan’s push for barrier-free tourism

August 19, 2019 | Source: TTG Asia- Japan |

Japan is ramping up its accessibility efforts to better cater to a growing number of overseas and domestic visitors with mobility issues. According to the Japan National Tourism Organization, 15 per cent of the 31 million inbound visitors to Japan in 2018 had a physical disability. Meanwhile, Japan’s rapidly ageing population is resulting in more domestic travellers with reduced mobility. By 2030, 37.2 million people in Japan are expected to be aged 65 or older, according to the National Institute of Population and Social Research…

Halls of shame

August 19, 2019 | Source: The New Indian Express- India |

Retired professor VS Sunder, a wheelchair user, was in for a rude shock when he went to the Karapakkam community hall to attend the Bus Rapid Transport System meeting recently. It was a long wait at the foot of the stairs for assistance. The meeting was on the first floor and there was no elevator. The only option for Sunder was to be lifted to reach the venue. There are 120 government maintained community halls in the city and not one of them is accessible for persons with disabilities (PwD)…

Immersive art fires the imaginations of disabled patrons

August 19, 2019 | Source: Brisbane Times- Australia |

Some of Sydney’s top cultural institutions are providing world-expanding programs to students living with moderate to severe intellectual disabilities through programs that incorporate art and performances. In addition to traditional accessibility adaptations such as audio descriptions and sign language interpreters, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) and the Opera House host events that let audiences with conditions including intellectual disabilities and autism come to grips with the work in a sensory way…

Maayan Ziv: Making the world more accessible

August 19, 2019 | Source: Canadian Jewish News- Canada |

Maayan Ziv, who was born with muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair since she was a child, is the founder and CEO of AccessNow, a mobile crowdsourcing platform that allows people to search for, rate and discover places based on their level of accessibility. AccessNow recently received a $2.7 million grant from the Canadian government. AccessNow began as an idea during the first week of my entrepreneurship master’s at Ryerson University in 2014. The whole week we’d been talking about looking for problems in our lives, or our families…

Hotel rooms ‘must be fully accessible’

August 19, 2019 | Source: BBC- Scotland (Video) |

Tourism is a vital part of the Scottish economy, but one campaigner thinks more should be done to make the industry more accessible to disabled people. Euan MacDonald has motor neurone disease and says the hospitality industry is not doing enough to help people like him. Speaking to BBC Scotland’s The Nine, he says he wants hotels to start providing essential equipment in their accessible rooms…

Ministry advisory on accessible public transport raises more questions

August 20, 2019 | Source: NewzHook- India |

For the first time, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has drafted an advisory for states emphasising the need to make public transport disabled-friendly. Which is welcome but the advisory says this should apply to 25% of vehicles when the RPWD Act says 100%. As a part of the Accessible India Campaign, comes a first of its kind move from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, which has asked all states to make at least 25% of their bus fleet and private passenger vehicles more accessible for people with disabilities…

Carleton to lead Canadian Accessibility Network

August 20, 2019 | Source: University Affairs- Canada |

Carleton University aims to draw on the power of partnerships to advance accessibility for people with disabilities through the recently announced Canadian Accessibility Network. “We are pursuing to establish Carleton as a centre of excellence in accessibility,” said Dr. Boris Vukovic, director of Carleton’s READ (Research, Education, Accessibility and Design) Initiative, where the network will be headquartered. Dr. Vukovic said they plan to create a network of regional centers of excellence across the country…

Jordanians mourn death of Aya Aghabi, creator of hope for people with disabilities

August 20, 2019 | Source: Roya News- Jordan |

On Monday, August 19, 2019, Jordanians were saddened with the passing away of Aya Aghabi, a young Jordanian girl who is an activist for women’s rights and people with disabilities. Aghabi is the founder and initiator of “Accessible Jordan” initiative and website, which contains a guide to all outdoor venues and parks that grant access to the disabled. Aya has spent years helping people with disabilities in Jordan through her initiative, which has long cultivated hope and empowerment for this category of people in the Jordanian society…

Qualtrough hosts Man in Motion to discuss accessibility on a local level

August 20, 2019 | Source: Delta-Optimist- Canada |

More than 100 residents along with community advocacy and disability groups were on hand at Ladner United Church Monday morning for a chat on accessibility and the new Accessible Canada Act. Moderated by former Delta South MLA Vicki Huntington, the discussion was held between Delta MP Carla Qualtrough and Rick Hansen from the Rick Hansen Foundation. The event, which focused on how leadership and local action can make a difference in communities when it comes to accessibility…

Accessibility standards become Maltese law through legal notice

August 21, 2019 | Source: Independent- Malta& Times Malta |

The Accessibility Standards for all in a Built Environment Regulations were formally announced today by Parliamentary Secretary for Persons with Disability, Anthony Agius Decelis, and the Commissioner for the Rights of Persons with Disability, Oliver Scicluna. The standards used to be a Maltese National Standard adopted by the Malta Competition and Consumer Affairs Authority which came into effect upon publication of a notice on the 10 April 2015, but are now directly transposed into Maltese law…

Lack of accessible rooms a Paralympics headache

August 21, 2019 | Source: The Straits Times- Japan |

Paralympics chief Andrew Parsons has said the 2020 Games are on track, but raised alarm bells over a dearth of accessible hotel rooms in Tokyo with only one year to go.”I couldn’t be happier with the preparations so far. With one year to go, we’re totally on schedule,” he told Agence France-Presse in an interview to mark 12 months until the start of the Games on Aug 25, 2020. But he admitted that his biggest concern was still the poor selection of hotel rooms equipped for the thousands of disabled supporters, journalists and coaches for the 13-day competition…

Disabled home-seekers ‘in distress’ over accessible housing failures

August 22, 2019 | Source: Home Care Insight- Scotland & Scottish Housing News |

Disabled home-seekers are experiencing “adverse emotional and mental distress” due to a lack of suitable accommodation, according to housing experts. The claim follows the publication of an 18-month long study led by researchers at the University of Stirling, Housing Options Scotland and Horizon Housing Association, which looked at the effectiveness of allocations and lettings practice for accessible and adapted social housing in Scotland. Of the 28 disabled home-seekers based in three local authority areas, who took part in the research, the majority received inappropriate housing offers, or no offers at all, during the course of the study.

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