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MTA’s Struggling Access-A-Ride Service Eyes Cash Fix for Drivers

December 12, 2021 Source: The City

With Access-A-Ride service quality in a monthslong slump, the MTA is considering putting more money in drivers’ pockets to boost the paratransit system’s reliability, THE CITY has learned. Among the ideas being mulled, advocates said, are proposals to pay for drivers’ bridge and tunnel tolls to help them avoid traffic on local roads — and dole out per-trip bonuses to improve performance that, in recent months, has been at its lowest level in years. “I just want Access-A-Ride to do one thing right,” said Krista Simeone, 32, who takes paratransit to travel between her home in Flushing and job in Kew Gardens…

MTA announces historic investment in accessibility projects

December 13, 2021 Source: Mass Transit & Intelligent Transport

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Construction & Development is seeking board approval for plans to further accessibility improvements at 26 New York City Transit stations. This new round of investments is part of the authority’s ongoing commitment to accessibility, delivering billions of dollars in vital projects to help improve the commute of millions of New Yorkers. If approved, plans include making 19 stations newly accessible and the rehabilitation of existing elevators at seven stations…

Smart tech aims to improve transit accessibility for the visually impaired

December 14, 2021 Source: Smart Cities Dive

Transportation and mobility can be a particular challenge for the roughly more than 253 million visually impaired people worldwide. According to a 2020 report from the American Foundation for the Blind (AFB), without driving, “remaining self-sufficient requires navigating a complex patchwork of public and private transportation systems.” The report found that some visually impaired people have difficulty maintaining employment and getting to medical appointments because of transportation challenges…

DOJ Secures Agreement to Improve Web Accessibility for Public Transportation Users with Disabilities in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois

December 14, 2021 Source: DOJ & PDF & News-Gazette

One disabled, Champaign-Urbana bus rider complained to the DOJ. Now other riders get an accessible website and two bus stop upgrades

December 16, 2021 Source: Illinois Newsroom

The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a settlement agreement with the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (MTD) to resolve alleged violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Under the agreement, the MTD must make its website and mobile applications accessible for users with visual and manual impairments. Public transportation users rely on the MTD’s website and mobile applications to plan trips, check arrival times, and find fare information…

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Disability Rights Iowa holds a town hall to understand accessibility issues in northwest Iowa

December 10, 2021 Source: Iowa Public Radio

Sioux City residents got the opportunity to share their concerns surrounding accessibility at a town hall hosted by Disability Rights Iowa on Wednesday. The Des-Moines based organization advocates for the legal rights of Iowans with disabilities throughout the state. Through town halls, Disability Rights Iowa aims to understand accessibility needs in regions like northwest Iowa, where their services are less frequently used. “We can’t do every possible legal issue that comes up, so we really want our work to be focused on what people are currently experiencing as barriers so we can remove those,” said Catherine Johnson, the organization’s new executive director…

Volunteers work to improve disabled access to businesses

December 11, 2021 Source: CT Insider

The Americans with Disabilities Act is more than 30 years old but many businesses and tourist attractions remain inaccessible. That can make it tough for disabled people to know where they can easily visit. Accessible Black Hills is a new volunteer organization that’s trying to tackle these issues, South Dakota Public Broadcasting reported. Kelsey Stine, who founded the group, used her power wheelchair to visit the Dahl Art Center in Rapid City last month…

ADA center: Accessibility benefits everyone

December 11, 2021 Source: Rapid City Journal

Can someone’s pet qualify as a service animal? Is your business website usable for people with disabilities? Can you require employees with disabilities to wear masks? The Rocky Mountain ADA (Americans with Disabilities) Center helps businesses and communities proactively address issues that affect people with disabilities. The Rocky Mountain ADA Center is an advocate for Black Hills employers, workers or anyone who has questions. The center, located in Colorado Springs, Colo., serves South Dakota, North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and Utah…

This space company wants to help people with disabilities become astronauts

December 11, 2021 Source: Changing America

As the race to space continues to heat up, one company hopes to send disabled scientists, veterans, students, athletes and artists on parabolic flight missions with the intention to advance disability inclusion in the industry. AstroAccess hopes to expand access to disabled astronauts so they can be considered trusted crew members that offer unique strengths and spur innovation. The company conducted an inaugural flight in October, sending 12 ambassadors on a parabolic flight to space to experience weightlessness…

Embrace accessibility of telehealth for autism services

December 11, 2021 Source: The Daily Gazette

Approximately one out of 54 children in the United States live with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). My son is one of those individuals, so I know firsthand some of the many struggles that can come with safely accessing health care. Diagnosing ASD early in a child’s development can have a significant effect on a child’s health care and treatment plan. However, due to an overburdened system and a lack of qualified professionals in this field, many families are forced to wait up to 12 months for an initial diagnostic appointment…

Hours after a massage, a professor was wildly dizzy and deaf in one ear

December 11, 2021 Source: The Washington Post

Stretched out on her back at a Pennsylvania spa enjoying a Fourth of July massage with a friend, Catherine Nettles Cutter felt a sudden jolt of pain shoot down the side of her neck into her collarbone and heard the loud crack that changed her life. “Whoa,” said the masseuse, who had been turning Cutter’s head from side to side. She suggested that the food microbiologist might want to try physical therapy to improve her flexibility. As she climbed off the massage table Cutter, then 56, felt nothing out of the ordinary. But when she awoke at 7 the next morning, she was violently dizzy and nearly deaf in her right ear; the left was unaffected…

Waterbury to Ensure that Polling Stations are Accessible to People with Mobility Disabilities

December 13, 2021 Source: U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Connecticut

Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that the government has reached a settlement agreement with the City of Waterbury to ensure that people with disabilities can physically access polling locations. This settlement agreement resolves a complaint filed with the U.S. Department of Justice stating that the City of Waterbury was using polling sites that were inaccessible to people with disabilities. After receiving the complaint, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney’s Office spoke with city officials and people with disabilities, surveyed polling locations, and…

Many bank websites fall short of ADA requirements. U.S. Bank is an exception

December 13, 2021 Source: American Banker

A recent audit of U.S. banks’ websites found that many fail to meet basic standards of accessibility by people with disabilities. U.S. Bancorp in Minneapolis is an exception. The $550 billion-asset bank goes to great lengths to make its website and mobile banking app usable to people with disabilities — such as by having employees with disabilities co-design products — and conducts frequent tests of these efforts. The bank’s approach elicits praise from accessibility experts. “People who are actually disabled can tell you about the user experience,” said Martin McKay, CEO of Texthelp…

Workers with disabilities could be paid higher wages with Biden’s Build Back Better plan

December 13, 2021 Source: The Hill

President Biden’s Build Back Better bill has been lauded for including historic climate change provisions, health care and infrastructure initiatives, but it also carries the opportunity for people with disabilities to finally make at least minimum wage. People with disabilities are legally allowed to be paid below the federal minimum wage, as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FSLA). It’s called subminimum wage and it’s allowed under Section 14(c), meant to encourage employers to hire certain individuals that are impaired by physical or mental disabilities so they don’t lose out on employment opportunities…

Executive Order on Transforming Federal Customer Experience and Service Delivery to Rebuild Trust in Government

December 13, 2021 Source: The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Purpose. Our Government must recommit to being “of the people, by the people, [and] for the people” in order to solve the complex 21st century challenges our Nation faces. Government must be held accountable for designing and delivering services with a focus on the actual experience of the people whom it is meant to serve. Government must also work to deliver services more equitably and effectively, especially for those who have been historically underserved…

5 Signs Toddler May Be Color Blind

December 13, 2021 Source: Babygaga

Trying to accurately diagnose toddlers with color blindness can be tricky. This is because many children may not proficiently learn their colors until they are three to four years of age. As such, when quizzing on colors during a walk or while coloring in coloring books, parents may get the wrong answers just because toddlers simply have not learned to memory which name is assigned to which color. But, if parents are worried that there may be some problems with their little ones’ vision, there are some signs to watch for that would indicate a toddler may be color blind…

Lack of accessible housing pushes disabled Granite Staters to the brink of homelessness

December 14, 2021 Source: Concord Monitor

Katie Phillips has a job. She is an active member of several nonprofit organizations in her community. She votes. As an independent, disabled woman, she would like to live in her own apartment. But she said a lack of affordable and accessible housing in Southern New Hampshire has sealed her fate. “I live an ordinary life in most ways except one: I am a thirty-year-old, employed, adult woman who is basically expected to live with my mother forever,” she said…

This expert says to beware when it comes to online and over-the-counter hearing devices

December 14, 2021 Source: WSLS

As we or our loved ones age, hearing loss is something many of us will deal with. In fact, one in six people over the age of 18 report having some trouble hearing — that’s about 37.5 million U.S. adults, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Ronald L. Webster, Ph.D, who is president of The Hearing Center at Hollins Communications Research Institute, said there are many different causes for hearing loss, including genetic factors, but the most common source of hearing loss is too much exposure to loud sounds…

Parent of deaf child claims Solon Schools failed to provide language access

December 15, 2021 Source: Cleveland

A parent of a deaf child who has been attending Solon City Schools has accused the district of discriminating against his child. As a result, his family has chosen to move out of the district. At the Solon Board of Education meeting Monday (Dec. 13), Nick Szucs claimed that district administrators failed to provide language access to his deaf daughter, Ivy, despite repeated requests on his part for them to do so. The school board did not respond to Szucs’ comments, as its policy is that it does not directly address public comment during board meetings…

Community Heroes: Deaf audiologist Michelle Hu uses her experiences to help others navigate hearing loss

December 15, 2021 Source: La Jolla Light

Michelle Hu is deaf, but the pediatric audiologist strives to make sure her message comes through loud and clear. Through her work with patients and her Instagram account and website, she uses her deafness to help others navigate hearing loss. Hu, a La Jolla resident since 2009, was born with mild to moderate hearing loss that wasn’t discovered until she was 3 or 4. The condition worsened bit by bit, she said. “I did pretty well with hearing aids,” she said, though she was a “textbook candidate” for cochlear implants, small devices surgically embedded at each ear to help patients hear…

Striving To Make Space Accessible For People With Disabilities

December 16, 2021 Source: NPR (Podcast)

As spaceflight inches closer to becoming a reality for some private citizens, science correspondent Geoff Brumfiel chats with the New York Times disability fellow Amanda Morris about why one organization wants to insure people with disabilities have the chance to go to space…

Age-related Eye Disease Heightens Parkinson’s Risk, Study Suggests

December 16, 2021 Source: Parkinson’s News Today

People with age-related macular degeneration, an eye disease that blurs central vision, may have a higher risk of developing Parkinson’s disease, a Taiwanese population‐based retrospective study suggests. The study, ‘Increased risk of Parkinson’s disease among patients with age-related macular degeneration,” was published in the journal BMC Ophthalmology. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) causes blindness among the elderly and usually affects people older than 55. Parkinson’s is also an aging-related disease, and some researchers classify both diseases as neurodegenerative disorders…

The Most Accomplished Deaf Player in MLB History

December 16, 2021 Source: History

William Hoy was not Major League Baseball’s first deaf player, but he was the game’s most successful. He finished his career, which spanned from 1888-1902, with 2,048 hits, 596 stolen bases and 725 runs batted in. In the 21st century, Hoy received consideration by the Veterans Committee for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame. “He faced prejudice, especially in the beginning of his career,” says Nancy Churnin, who wrote The William Hoy Story, a children’s book meant to inform and inspire. “But he also made great friends. He taught his teammates sign language, and they loved it.”…

Two Americas: Accessibility in Billings through the eyes of the disabled

December 16, 2021 Source: KTVQ

Under Skypoint in downtown Billings, Katelyn Baker uses her motorized wheelchair to maneuver the sidewalks. But the truth is, it’s not always easy. “People don’t realize I have the same rights as a pedestrian,” she said. And she’s right. People don’t realize that. Often, she sees it with an obstruction on a sidewalk, a door that doesn’t have a button to open automatically, and when she’s trying to get across an intersection in Billings Heights, where she lives. Baker lives with mild cerebral palsy…

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International News

Access Israel brings ‘urban obstacle course’ to Dubai

December 8, 2021 Source: Jerusalem Post- Israel

Access Israel is well known in Israel for its disability awareness work and advocacy efforts on behalf of people with disabilities. Last week, a delegation of leaders from Access Israel took their message and their “urban obstacle course” on the road to Dubai. Visitors to the Israel pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai had an opportunity to experience what it is like to navigate an urban environment in a wheelchair or as a blind or visually impaired person…

Accessibility improvement plans at Insch railway station could soon be on right track

December 11, 2021 Source: Press and Journal- Scotland

Plans for £2.2 million of improvements at one of the least-accessible train stations in Scotland may soon be on the right track. In 2007, Insch residents were told they would have to wait more than six years for improvements. But 14 years later, the situation remains the same. It is currently the only station in the north-east where neither platform is accessible to all users, meaning some travellers have to transfer to other, accessible stations. The nearest accessible station is around 15 miles away in Kintore. And it’s not just those with mobility issues, such as wheelchair users, who face difficulties at the station…

Bringing accessible tourism to the world

December 11, 2021 Source: The Jerusalem Post- Israel

At first glance, Professor Yaniv Poria doesn’t appear to be the most traditional Jew on the planet. He regularly wears a hat, but it is more Leonard Cohen than traditional Jewish; he sports a goatee beard and he wears earrings. Yet, the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev professor at the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management, Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management would proudly argue that his entire career is informed by Jewish values and outlook…

Deaf Visibility In Television

December 11, 2021 Source: Redbrick- UK

Deaf visibility on television is something that has been an issue for a while; representation of deaf people on television programmes is so important for those in the deaf community as it helps them feel recognised in society whilst also helping others build an awareness of what life is like for those with hearing impairments. However, most shows demonstrate few attempts of trying to incorporate deaf actors even though they are such a large part of society. We can only hope that the shows that are moving in a more inclusive direction encourage others to do the same…

’There Is Still A Long Way To Go’: Two MPs Speak Out On Addressing Accessibility Issues In Malta

December 12, 2021 Source: Lovin Malta

Nationalist MP Kevin Cutajar and Labour MP Oliver Scicluna have said that while there have been many improvements, there is “still a long way to go” when it comes to tackling accessibility issues in Malta. This comes after Lovin Malta wrote an article about one man’s recollection of his mother’s struggles with accessibility, and we reached out to MPs to hear about their thoughts on physical accessibility in Malta. “As to physical accessibility, although there has been a lot of improvement over the past few decades, I feel that we still have a long way to go,” Cutajar said…

‘We need to level up’: Man in wheelchair making Edmonton accessible one bar at a time

December 13, 2021 Source: The Star- Canada

Brad Bartko says he looks up about 30 bars on the internet before he finds one that just might work for date night with his wife. “I’m not even exaggerating,” says the 28-year-old Edmontonian who has cerebral palsy and has been using a wheelchair his whole life. “You have to make sure someone in a wheelchair can get up to the establishment.” Bartko says he can’t even get through the doorway at some bars and restaurants. “Some places I can’t go to the bathroom. I can’t sit at a table with my friends. The (bar) has to (create a) makeshift table for me from the storage closet, but I’m separated from my group.”…

Characterizing the energy use of disabled people in the European Union towards inclusion in the energy transition

December 13, 2021 Source: Nature- UK & PDF

Designing environmental policy to take account of social difference is increasingly recognized as essential to address both effectiveness and justice concerns. So far there is limited research on the experiences of disabled people in the environmental literature, amounting to a failure to recognize this substantial constituency. Here we compare disabled households’ embodied energy use, income, risk of poverty and energy poverty, and other socio-demographics with other households in the European Union…

How The Expo 2020 Dubai is Making Accessibility a Priority

December 13, 2021 Source: TravelPulse- Dubai

The Expo 2020 Dubai is the world’s largest event of the year. Spanning from October through March 2022, the Expo offers a theme of ‘Connecting Minds, Creating the Future,’ showcasing countries around the world and their innovations that could truly change the world, for the better. It’s also innovative in its approach to accessibility. The Expo 2020 Dubai is expected to welcome 25 million visits by people from around the globe by the time it ends in March 2022, while the numbers of visitors to its online platform (which includes virtual tours of many of its pavilions and attractions for those who can’t physically attend)…

Tool allows Brussels’ citizens to directly report pedestrian-specific issues

December 13, 2021 Source: The Brussels Times- Belgium

The Brussels-Capital Region has updated its online tool to make it easier to report specific problems in public spaces in the region faced by pedestrians, especially those with reduced mobility. The online Fix My Street tool will now also allow citizens to report problems more specifically related to vulnerable road user’s accessibility, and allows less mobile people to report their specific problems, such as street curbs that need to be lowered for wheelchair accessibility, Bruxelles Mobility stated…

B.C. wants your opinion about making buildings more accessible for everyone

December 14, 2021 Source: CBC- Canada

Stairways. Door handles. Slippery floors. Most disabled British Columbians have a list of things that make buildings inaccessible to them. Now, the province wants to hear about them as it works to update the B.C. Building Code. The building code lays out the minimum safety requirements for new building construction. It’s updated every five years or so, and the province is putting a focus on accessibility for the next update in 2023. Dan Coulter, the MLA for Chilliwack, is the parliamentary secretary for accessibility…

Trying to reduce mobility and accessibility barriers in Delta

December 14, 2021 Source: Delta Optimist- Canada

The City of Delta should try to enhance physical accessibility through the built environment and support social inclusion through the elimination of barriers for people with different abilities in Delta. That’s one of the lengthy list of objectives identified in the recently released draft of the city’s new Social Action Plan. The report notes that potential actions for the city to undertake include developing a City Accessibility Plan to identify, prevent and remove barriers that may affect people with different abilities from participating fully in their day-to-day activities in Delta…

Restoring lost hearing

December 14, 2021 Source: The New Indian Express- India

Helen Keller — an American author, disability rights advocate and political activist — lost her sight and hearing while she was a toddler. She wrote in her memoirs, “If I were to be born again and had to choose between blindness and deafness, I would choose to be blind. Deafness is worse than blindness. It is the loneliness, the sense of isolation and the lack of understanding among hearing people that makes it so”. In society, generally, people with blindness might receive sympathy but many times the deaf is looked down on with contempt and ridicule…

How to ensure equal opportunities for disabled employees

December 14, 2021 Source: LSE- UK

Non-visible disabilities are one of the themes of the UK’s Disability History Month (UKDHM)—18 November-18 December in 2021. Non-visible disabilities or health conditions are not immediately recognisable, nor can they be seen “from the outside.” The Equalities Act 2010 defines disability as “a physical or mental impairment that has a ‘substantial’ and ‘long-term’ negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities”. In the UK, 14.1 million people (1 in 5) are disabled. Of those, over 70% are thought to have non-visible disabilities…

‘Blind’ Italian scammer arrested after driving

December 15, 2021 Source: France 24- Italy

An Italian man who received government welfare for years due to blindness was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of fraud after being seen driving, window shopping and riding a scooter, news reports said. The man in Palermo, Sicily, received at least 170,000 euros ($191,000) in benefits since 2008 after attesting that he was “totally blind” as a result of a congenital problem, local media reported. Italy’s financial police were alerted after the man renewed his driver’s license in 2018 despite his earlier declaration, media said…

Web Accessibility is now a reality in Bangladesh, not a dream anymore

December 15, 2021 Source: Digital Journal- Bangladesh

Under the Honorable Prime Minister’s direction as well as the leadership and guidance of the ICT Adviser, Aspire to Innovate (a2i) Programme has been working sincerely under the ICT Division and Cabinet Division of Government of Bangladesh to make web accessibility a reality. More than 33 thousand active Web Portals are integrated with the National Portal, the web portals of Bangladesh, including all the ministries, divisions, departments, directorates, and other different government agencies…

TransPennine Express unveils new initiatives to improve accessibility for rail passengers

December 16, 2021 Source: THIIS Magazine & Railway Gazette- UK

Train operator TransPennine Express has introduced three brand new initiatives in a bid to enhance accessibility on its network in Northern England and Scotland. It is the first UK rail operator to introduce GoodMaps, an app which guides blind and other users around stations to help them find features such as platforms, toilets, ticket offices and coffee shops. The app uses LIDAR and image recognition data, and does not require fixed infrastructure such as Bluetooth beacons inside a building…

Accessibility advocate stranded after storm calls on Halifax to improve sidewalk clearing

December 16, 2021 Source: CBC- Canada

An accessibility advocate who uses a wheelchair is calling on the Halifax Regional Municipality to “do better” after last week’s snowfall left him stranded on the sidewalk by his home. Brian George said he was trying to leave his apartment on the corner of Robie and Welsford streets on Dec. 10, a day after Halifax had been hit with 30 centimetres of snow. Although the sidewalks were clear, George said the curb cuts to cross the road were blocked with snow and he couldn’t leave the area without help from someone else…

How the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation will cure 500,000 of blindness by 2026

December 16, 2021 Source: Evening Standard- UK

The lockdowns of 2021 saw the beginning of a remarkable partnership between two sexagenarians who are bringing social and economic change to the most deprived communities in the developing world. Tej Kohli and Dr Sanduk Ruit may live 4,582 miles away from each other, in Europe and Southern Asia, but distance has proven no barrier to them in co-founding a charity that is transforming communities by curing blindness. Since its launch, the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation has screened 63,257 patients and cured 5,335 people of blindness, mostly in Nepal, in a series of microsurgical outreach camps…

Aussie push to fight blindness globally

December 16, 2021 Source: Manning River Times- Australia

Millions of people suffering from blindness and eye disease around the world could benefit from a new research collaboration between Australian universities and research institutions. The new consortium BIENCO will develop bioengineered eye tissue to treat corneal blindness. Around 23 million people globally – almost the size of the entire Australian population – are affected by corneal disease and blindness. But only one in 70 patients can access donor corneas to treat their condition…

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