Accessibility in the News — 7/16/2021.

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U.S. Attorney Files And Simultaneously Settles Lawsuit Against Jujamcyn Theaters To Improve Accessibility At 5 Of Broadway’s Most Historic Theaters

July 13, 2021 | Source: DOJ

Jujamcyn Theaters to make accessibility improvements following suit

July 13, 2021 | Source: Broadway News & Deadline & Ticket News & Broadway World & The NY Times

Nimax Theatres releases statement addressing access issues at Six’s new Vaudeville Theatre home

July 15, 2021 | Source: WhatsOnStage

SIX’s Nica Burns Speaks to Accessibility Updates at Vaudeville Theatre

July 15, 2021 | Source: Broadway World

Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the filing and settlement of a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against JUJAMCYN THEATERS LLC, the owners and operators of five of Broadway’s most historic theaters, the AL HIRSCHFELD, the AUGUST WILSON, the EUGENE O’NEILL, the ST. JAMES, and the WALTER KERR, involving violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act (the “ADA”). The settlement, in the form of a consent decree, was entered yesterday by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres…

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Wichita State team developing app to help blind and visually impaired readers

July 10, 2021 | Source: Wichita Eagle

Imagine opening the newspaper and seeing the Sunday funnies replaced with just a paragraph of what characters were saying and no pictures. That’s the reality for the nearly 70,000 Kansans with some form of visual disability. Current approaches to making comics and graphic novels accessible rely on converting the written words into audio, ignoring all of the visual information contained in the strips. Now, a Wichita State University professor and one of his former students are trying to change that with an app…

She worked with hearing-impaired kindergartners for 22 years, but retiring teacher isn’t leaving her ‘Deaf life’

July 10, 2021 | Source: Bakersfield

When Robin Lindsey’s father died in 1989, it inspired in her, as it does many of us at such times, a reevaluation. She had been teaching grade school for a decade and a half, but now, with his passing, Lindsey wondered if perhaps an unfulfilled obligation, an unexpressed calling, still beckoned. Warren Jones was deaf. And he taught deaf children. In fact both of Lindsey’s parents were deaf. Her first language was not spoken English but Sign. Although she was not hearing-impaired herself, the deaf community was, in a very real sense, her community…

How the airline industry still refuses to accommodate disability

July 11, 2021 | Source: MSNBC

When her wheelchair was severely damaged during her flight on Delta Airlines from Minneapolis to Newark, New Jersey, the model and influencer Bri Scalesse took to TikTok and recorded a video that quickly went viral. “Today my freedom and independence was taken away,” she said. “I don’t know how I’m going to live my life.” Pretty much no one looks forward to airline travel. But if you’re a wheelchair user, flying isn’t just an inconvenience; it can be devastating…

In Focus: Northwestern theater students receiving accommodations struggle to find accessibility within theater program

July 12, 2021 | Source: Daily Northwestern

In the fall of 2019, then-senior Dana Pepowski (Communication ’20) sought help from AccessibleNU after symptoms of her chronic illnesses began to worsen. The accessibility counselor she worked with was the first person at Northwestern, and in her life, to ever validate her accessibility needs and illnesses, which are not obviously detectable. Pepowski said she had very little success in receiving accommodations from school leadership. She has numerous chronic illnesses — including gastroparesis, colonic dysmotility and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome — all of which can cause physical pain or fatigue, impacting her daily functions…

How to Find the Best Hotels for Wheelchair Users

July 12, 2021 | Source: AARP

Whenever we travel — even to visit family — we have to stay in a hotel. The typical home just doesn’t accommodate Barbara’s 350-pound power wheelchair. We need wider doorways, grab bars in the bathroom, ample turning space and a special shower. Fortunately, hotels in the U.S. have accessible guest rooms for wheelchair users. But how well a guest room works for us varies from hotel to hotel. At some, wheelchair users like Barbara face obstacles that can range from mild inconveniences to major safety concerns — when a shower’s bench is unstable or its grab bars are missing, for instance…

My daughter’s hidden disability

July 12, 2021 | Source: The Washington Post

With bright blue eyes and a head full of blond ringlets, 5-year-old Camille elicits the attention of strangers on a regular basis. The interactions often go one of two ways: A person compliments Camille, and she stares back at them deadpan. As the attempted conversation draws to an awkward halt, I jump in to explain that we are both hard of hearing. Because Camille chooses silence when she can’t comprehend spoken dialogue, people interpret her speechlessness as lack of intellect, but that is far from the truth…

Opinion: Where Austin sidewalks end, problems start

July 13, 2021 | Source: Austin American-Statesman

A few weeks ago, after months of virtual engagement, I was thrilled to teach my first in-person drawing class at an Austin art studio for people with disabilities. However, when one artist, Susan, arrived, she appeared more flustered than excited. Susan uses a wheelchair, and she explained that missing and broken sidewalks made her journey from the bus stop nearly impossible. For part of the route, Susan had no choice but to risk traveling on the main road during a lull in traffic…

5 People Share Their Accessible WFH Setups — And They Get the Job Done

July 13, 2021 | Source: Yahoo Finance

Millions of people who were used to going into offices to work have spent the past year trying to do the same job at home. It’s certainly been an ongoing task, especially when it comes to finding a professional background in a quiet corner, but what about people who have to accommodate their bodies’ needs alongside their jobs’ requirements? For many disabled people, a lot of thought has to go into a WFH setup, from figuring out how to sit for extended periods of time, to even determining whether sitting up is a possibility due to pain management…

How to make online information about the heat more accessible for the visually impaired

July 14, 2021 | Source: IdahoNews6

We get a lot of information online, including important things about the weather like how to tell the difference between heat stroke and heat exhaustion. But how accessible is that information for individuals who are visually impaired? “I don’t use my computer or the iPhone to get information on the weather, I feel like there’s enough information on TV,” Dana Ard, the president of the National Federation of the Blind of Idaho, said. A lot of information online is easily accessible for people who are blind through screen reader software…

‘Second-class citizens:’ Hard-of-hearing employees frustrated by lack of accessibility in remote and hybrid working

July 14, 2021 | Source: Digiday

If you think the enforced remote-working set-up of the last 16 months has been tough, multiply that by a thousand, and you’ll be somewhat closer to what a deaf or hard-of-hearing employee has experienced. The bulk of employers have failed to provide enough of the accessibility tools required for communication between its hard-of-hearing and hearing staff in remote-working setups, according to spokespeople for those communities. These tools, which include video captioning and digital interpreter services — so readily accessible in an in-office environment — have been missing in remote-working environments…

Nebraska election officials take steps to make voting accessible for disabled voters

July 14, 2021 | Source: Siouxland News

Free and fair elections are a fundamental American right and now Nebraska takes steps to ensure those with disabilities can vote barrier-free, in some cases literally opening doors. Many take advantage of automated doors and libraries, banks, and schools because of the convenience. “For people with disabilities or mobility issues to get through easily,” said Hall County Election Commissioner Tracy Overstreet. Overstreet has identified nine polling places that don’t have accessible doors. It reflects a shift in where voting takes place…

Remarks by Vice President Harris Before Meeting with Disabilities Advocates to Discuss Voting Rights

July 14, 2021 | Source: The White House

Well, I want to thank these incredible leaders for joining us today, this morning. The issue of voting rights in America is probably among the most serious and significant issues that we are facing at this moment. And voting rights for people with disabilities is one of our highest priorities. In that context, I have asked these leaders to join me to provide us with insight, with advice, and with perspective on not only how these emerging laws in various states will impact our friends and our neighbors and family members with disabilities, but also I am fully aware that even before these laws started to most recently emerge, we still weren’t doing a good job…

Device taps brain waves to help paralyzed man communicate

July 14, 2021 | Source: AP

In a medical first, researchers harnessed the brain waves of a paralyzed man unable to speak — and turned what he intended to say into sentences on a computer screen. It will take years of additional research but the study, reported Wednesday, marks an important step toward one day restoring more natural communication for people who can’t talk because of injury or illness. “Most of us take for granted how easily we communicate through speech,” said Dr. Edward Chang, a neurosurgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the work…

Fewer than two dozen priests are deaf and one is helping deaf Catholics to first confession in 20 years

July 14, 2021 | Source: The Catholic Reader

Father Min Seo Park, one of fewer than two dozen deaf priests worldwide, thinks deafness is hardly a disability and is working to help others realize that as well. Deaf since an illness at age 2, the new chaplain of St. Francis of Assisi Deaf Catholic Church in Landover Hills, Maryland, is hoping to convey the idea that deafness be treated as a culture. Since returning to the United States from his native Seoul, South Korea, in late January, Father Park, 52, has taken up three ministries…

Marlee Matlin to Hollywood: Disability Is ‘Not a Box to Be Checked Off’

July 14, 2021 | Source: Backstage

“We need other Oscar winners who are deaf,” says Marlee Matlin, the only deaf actor to win the coveted award. “We need to see more deaf actors hired, more disabled actors hired—and not only actors. I’m talking about producers, directors, writers—giving the entire Hollywood workforce an opportunity for deaf people and disabled people to participate.” What about Matlin’s other Academy Award record: her status as the youngest best actress winner in the ceremony’s history? “That one I’d like to keep,” she says with a shameless grin. “Anyone over 21, fine! Go ahead—win the Oscar. I don’t care.”…

Lawsuits Over Digital Accessibility for People With Disabilities Are Rising

July 15, 2021 | Source: The Wall Street Journal

The number of U.S. lawsuits alleging that websites, apps and digital videos were inaccessible to people with disabilities rose 64% in the first half of 2021 from a year earlier, a new report says. Plaintiffs filed 1,661 lawsuits claiming digital violations of either the federal Americans with Disabilities Act or California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act between Jan. 1 and June 30, up from 1,012 in the comparable period of 2020, according to the report by UsableNet Inc., a technology firm that offers accessibility-compliance technology and services…

Return to the workplace highlights accessibility concerns for disabled employees

July 15, 2021 | Source: ABC News

As COVID-19 restrictions loosen and the country settles into a new normal, disability advocates have mixed feelings about the future of the workplace and public health in the U.S. Marcie Roth, executive director and chief executive officer of the World Institute on Disability, hopes the accommodations that have been made for all workers during the pandemic continue as the world goes back to normal. “For lots of people with disabilities, returning to normal horrifies us,” Roth said…

Justice Department Files Statement of Interest Regarding ADA Coverage of Blood Plasma Donation Centers

July 15, 2021 | Source: DOJ (PDF)

Yesterday, the Justice Department filed a Statement of Interest in a lawsuit in the Northern District of Illinois to clarify that blood plasma donation centers are “public accommodations” under Title III of the ADA. The lawsuit, Gomez v. CSL Plasma, Inc., alleges that Defendant violated Title III of the ADA by refusing to provide Plaintiff, who is deaf, with an American Sign Language interpreter, making it impossible for him to donate plasma at Defendant’s plasma donation center. Plaintiff has moved for partial summary judgment on the legal issue that Defendant is a “service establishment” and therefore a “public accommodation” under Title III…

Newton activist to put pedal to metal in first Pan-Mass Challenge

July 15, 2021 | Source: Wicked Local

If you see a three-wheeled trike zip by on Aug. 7, during the Pan-Mass Challenge (PMC), it’s probably longtime accessibility activist Robert Solomon. The Newton resident, who has been living with incurable, progressive nerve root disease since 2004, has been training for the event for years. Determined to raise funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute that helped him so much after he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2003, he will be using a recumbent trike, called a Catrike Dumont, with full suspension that smooths out the street for his delicate spine, he said…

Global cities still falling short on governance of smart city tech: report

July 15, 2021 | Source: Smart Cities Dive

How Smart Mobility Will Impact Cities By 2025

July 15, 2021 | Source: Smart City Press

Local governments have been racing to become the next “smart city,” introducing new technology and digital services. Those advancements can be helpful for citizens and policymakers — especially during the pandemic when in-person services were suspended — but also carry risks if they’re not managed properly, said report author Jeff Merritt, WEF’s head of internet of things and urban transformation. “It’s a bit shocking when you see what some cities aren’t thinking about. They move so fast that they’re not thinking about clarity of accountability or responsibility,” said Merritt, who was previously the director of innovation for New York City…

‘Blindness isn’t an obstacle to success’

July 15, 2021 | Source: Queens Chronicle

Arturo Soto can take on the world now that he has Vangie by his side. The Flushing native recently graduated from Guiding Eyes for the Blind, an organization that equips the visually impaired with service dogs. Once matched up, the teams spend some time training together in preparation for their new lives ahead. “I call her my superdog,” Soto said of the 2-year-old yellow Lab. “She’s a great listener … she’s a partner in crime. I owe a lot to her because she’s given me new strength.”…

Study: New genetic test effective at spotting people at high risk for glaucoma

July 15, 2021 | Source: UPI

A new genetic test for glaucoma is 15 times more accurate at identifying people at high risk for the eye disease than existing diagnostics, a study published Thursday by JAMA Ophthalmology found. The test, performed on a blood or saliva sample, is designed to spot multiple genetic mutations known to cause the disease before irreversible vision loss occurs, the researchers said. “Genetic testing is not currently a routine part of glaucoma diagnosis and care, but this test has the potential to change that,” study co-author Dr. Jamie Craig said in a press release…

Medicare Expansion Would Be Financial Balm for an Aging U.S.

July 15, 2021 | Source: Bloomberg

Sweeping Executive Order Puts Hearing Aids Over The Counter; Cracks Down On Internet Providers

July 9, 2021 | Source: Medtech Insight

Senate Democrats’ plan to expand Medicare coverage would help a growing senior population often struggling with hefty out-of-pocket medical expenses, potentially providing ballast for the economy in coming years. Democrats on the Senate Budget Committee agreed Tuesday on a $3.5 trillion spending level for a bill to carry most of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda into law without Republican support. The bill would include one key item that wasn’t in Biden’s plans: vision, dental and hearing benefits for Medicare recipients, who are disproportionately those over 65 years old…

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National Institute of Urban Affairs conducts online webinar on Inclusive Cities

July 9, 2021 | Source: Devdiscourse- India

The National Institute of Urban Affairs conducted a live online webinar on “Inclusive Cities – Approaches for making Indian cities more accessible, safe, and inclusive for ALL” to commemorate the Strategy Launch of the Inclusive Cities Center last month. The webinar was a part of the 45th-anniversary celebrations of the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA). The webinar aimed to bring conversations regarding inclusivity to the mainstream and will mark the engagement of thinkers, practitioners, researchers and sector experts for creating an enabling environment for all in cities…

Advocate says ArriveCAN app technology is not accessible for blind Canadians

July 9, 2021 | Source: CityNews- Canada

The federal government’s new ArriveCAN travel app is inaccessible to some Canadians with disabilities, raising questions of fair treatment and practical border-crossing concerns. Robert Fenton, a board member of the CNIB _ formerly known as the Canadian National Institute for the Blind _ says he found a major bug when using the Apple VoiceOver screen reader on his iPhone as he tried to access the app, which is playing a pivotal role for those wishing to enter Canada by land, sea or air…

Sign language is a language too. But not when Indian leaders appear on TV

July 9, 2021 | Source: The Print- India

It is about time that the prime minister, the health secretary, the finance minister and all the chief ministers who regularly conduct press briefings have an in-frame sign language interpreter. In recent years, heads of state around the world have been striving to make their press briefs inclusive to cater to the needs of the deaf and the hard of hearing people. The US President Joe Biden has been widely lauded for his efforts in bringing a sign language interpreter to his daily press briefs…

High-rise housing will exclude disabled people unless rules improve – critics

July 10, 2021 | Source: Stuff- New Zealand

A focus on high-density housing in Auckland may result in homes that disabled people cannot access unless building regulations improve, critics say. Developers will be free to build up to six storeys around cities, major town centres and train stations if a government-led initiative is approved. But disability advocate Huhana Hickey says people with limited mobility could be “excluded from entire suburbs”, as current regulations do not require homes to be accessible…

Rethinking public transport through the lens of universal accessibility

July 10, 2021 | Source: Elets- India

Accessibility to Public Transport for the Urban Poor

July 10, 2021 | Source: Elets- India

An integral element in the evolution of cities has been the development of a robust and far-reaching public transportation system. Over the past 200 years or more, urban public transport systems have evolved and advanced tremendously. Irrespective of its form or size, a public transport system is meant to move people in masses and at speed. A public transport system acts as a basic mobility service that is meant to be affordable, accessible, and easily available for all…

New application maps accessibility of Ukrainian urban public spaces

July 10, 2021 | Source: Global Voices- Ukraine

Ukrainian activists with Dostupno.UA, a disability rights group, recently launched an updated interactive map with accessibility information about over 800 urban locations around the country. According to the activists, an average of 27-55% inhabitants of cities in Ukraine are differently abled or have reduced mobility. These include people with disabilities, parents with small children, the elderly, pregnant persons, and those recovering from various injuries. However, Dostupno.UA finds that “only 4% of urban infrastructure in Ukraine is fully accessible” – something they are working to change…

How Peterborough’s Nene Park is welcoming for disabled residents

July 12, 2021 | Source: Peterborough Telegraph- UK

The PT’s Peterborough Unlimited campaign has shone a light on how unwelcoming the city centre is for disabled residents, But as part of our campaign we’ve also been highlighting places which have made themselves disability friendly. This includes Nene Park Trust which runs: Ferry Meadows, Orton Meadows, Orton Mere, Woodston Reach, Thorpe Meadows and the Rural Estate, made up of parkland, meadows, woodlands and lakes. The trust has fully accessible toilets, as well as wheelchair accessible picnic tables and a range of activities…

‘I am trying and struggling’: Lack of accessible, affordable units leaves Kitchener man stranded

July 12, 2021 | Source: CBC- Canada

Ronald Hoppe said shock turned to anger when he found out he would be waiting years on Waterloo region’s affordable housing list before he would be able to get a unit that was accessible. Hoppe, who has run Kitchener’s Comic-Con since 2015, started using a wheelchair earlier this year after part of his left leg was amputated in December 2020. Hoppe also previously had all his toes on his right foot amputated and has cataract scarring in both his eyes, which he said has caused problems with his vision…

Special education: An overview- Educational instruction or social services designed or modified to assist individuals with disabilities

July 12, 2021 | Source: Rising Kashmir- India

Special education refers to a range of services, including social work services and rehabilitative counseling, provided to individuals with disabilities through the public school system, including instruction given in the classroom, at home, or in institutions. Special education classes are taught by teachers with professional certification. Some teachers specialize in working with children with learning disabilities or multiple handicaps, and instruction may take place within a regular school or a residential school for students with disabilities…

Why inclusive tech remains elusive

July 13, 2021 | Source: Economic Times- India

Kayla Love instantly identifies with drop-down boxes on the internet that include an “Others” option. “Because ‘others’ equals us,” says Love, a multi-racial Black UX (user experience) designer based in Puerto Rico who identifies as queer woman. Miles away in Bengaluru, Prasanna Venkatesh simply loves the auto-captioning feature in Google Meets. “It allows me to contribute to my maximum ability at work even in a remote setup,” the senior product design manager, who is hard of hearing, says of the cool feature in Google’s video-communication platform…

Museum to exhibit assistive devices and accessible technology for differently abled on anvil

July 14, 2021 | Source: The Hindu- India

A Museum of Possibilities, a permanent exhibition on assistive devices and accessible technology for differently abled people, is getting readied in the city by the State Commissionerate for the Welfare of the Disabled and Vidya Sagar, a non-governmental organisation. The museum, which will open this year, will focus on this across four aspects — live, work, play and communicate. A model of an accessible home, assistive devices and accessible technology across these four areas will be on display…

Startups aren’t doing enough to support employees with disabilities

July 14, 2021 | Source: Sifted- UK

The shift to remote work over the last year has no doubt opened up career opportunities for people with disabilities, says Franziska Hauck, people lead and coach in engineering at Berlin-based software company Signavio and disability advocate. But it hasn’t been the wakeup call that startups really needed to make their workplaces more accessible and inclusive. “Sure, now that companies have realised they can operate remotely, they might be more willing to hire a person with a mobility impairment and let them work from home,” she says…

‘Hugely important’: Disability rights groups back EV car charging accessibility standards

July 14, 2021 | Source: Daily Express- UK

A leading charity for disabled drivers has praised the government on their decision to develop accessibility standards for electric vehicle charging points. Disabled Motoring UK (DMUK) are one of the stakeholders in the process of creating guidance to identify which EV chargers are suitable for drivers’ needs. The Department for Transport and another disability charity, Motability, have commissioned the British Standards Institution to create the guidance. This framework will define electric vehicle charging points as ‘fully accessible’, ‘partially accessible’ and ‘not accessible’…

Accessibility and inclusivity must be a pre-condition for transport infrastructure funding

July 15, 2021 | Source: CNBCTV18- India

The two COVID waves have demonstrated that sustainable and resilient transport infrastructure is a prerequisite for an economy to function. Rightfully, these elements are gaining further prominence in transport planning and design. However, an under-appreciated fact is that lasting sustainability and resilience are not possible without inclusivity. India’s transport systems of tomorrow should be Safe, Accessible, Reliable and Affordable (SARA) for all including over 10 crore Indians living with a disabilities…

Inclusive education for the blind: It is their right

July 15, 2021 | Source: The Himalayan Times- Nepal

The World Health Organisation (WHO) 2018 report says that 253 million people worldwide are blind or have severe to moderate vision impairment. More than 90 per cent of them live in developing countries like Nepal. The World Blind Union argues that people who are blind have only a 1 in 10 chance of going to school or getting a job. The lack of reasonable accommodation is a key barrier to getting an education.The right to education enhances individual freedom and enables people to exercise other human rights, such as the right to vote or the right to free speech…

Persons with disabilities need empathy: ADC Shopian

July 16, 2021 | Source: Rising Kashmir- India

Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Shopian, Mushtaq Ahmad Simnani Thursday called for a collective approach to redress the grievances of persons with disabilities on priority with empathetic approach. The ADC was addressing a meeting of the district administration on empowerment of persons with disabilities here. A delegation of persons with disabilities from Shopian district also attended the meeting. During the meeting, District Officers from almost all the departments listened to the problems faced by such persons…

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