Accessibility in the News — 3/31/2023.
The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case concerning the right of an ADA “tester” to sue hotels over a rule outlined in the American’s With Disabilities Act. The case was brought by Acheson Hotels, which owns a hotel in Maine and was sued by Deborah Laufer, who has filed hundreds of similar lawsuits against hotels across the US. Laufer claims that the hotels’ websites are not in compliance with ADA rules requiring disclosure of information on accessibility to individuals with disabilities. The court will determine whether Laufer has the right to act as a “tester” without visiting the hotels in question.
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Supreme Court takes up case concerning Americans with Disabilities Act ‘tester’ of hotels
March 27, 2023 | Source: CNN and NBC and NY Times and WWNY and ABA Journal and Seyfarth
The US Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a case concerning whether a self-appointed “tester” of the Americans with Disabilities Act has the right to sue hotels over alleged violations of the civil rights law. The court was asked to take the case by Acheson Hotels, which owns and operates a hotel in coastal Maine. The company was sued by Deborah Laufer, who they say has filed hundreds of lawsuits against hotels across the country, claiming their websites are not in compliance with ADA rules that require hotels to disclosure information about how accessible they are to individuals with disabilities…
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The Washington Post’s first accessibility engineer is a step forward for accessible media
March 21, 2023 | Source: Poynter
In a world full of discrimination against disabled people that isn’t always obvious, much of the work focused on accessibility must call attention to issues that are often ignored. As he steps into his role as The Washington Post’s first accessibility engineer, Holden Foreman will solidify work that was already happening behind the scenes, taking accessibility out of the darkness and connecting the Post’s engineering team with the wider web accessibility landscape that many readers traverse on a daily basis…
Be My Eyes meets GPT-4: Is AI the next frontier in accessibility?
March 22, 2023 | Source: Mashable and Tech.eu
Nearing the 10-year anniversary of losing her eyesight, Lucy Edwards(Opens in a new tab) is reclaiming countless visual experiences…with the help of artificial intelligence. As a partner with visual assistant mobile app Be My Eyes, Edwards is testing the limits of the latest accessibility revelation, the Be My Eyes Virtual Volunteer. The AI-driven tool acts as tour guide, food blogger, personal assistant — you name it — ushering in a new form of complex, human-mimicking assistance using OpenAI’s hyper-realistic AI language model. With a single app, Edwards’ whole world is expanding, on her own terms…
Alzheimer’s first signs may appear in your eyes, study finds
March 24, 2023 | Source: CNN
Alzheimer’s drug granted accelerated approval by FDA. These are the risks
March 24, 2023 | Source: CNN
Your Speech May Reveal Early Signs of Alzheimer’s- May 28, 2023 | Source: WIRED
The eyes are more than a window to the soul — they’re also a reflection of a person’s cognitive health. “The eye is the window into the brain,” said ophthalmologist Dr. Christine Greer, director of medical education at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in Boca Raton, Florida. “You can see directly into the nervous system by looking into the back of the eye, toward the optic nerve and retina.” Research has been exploring how the eye may help in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease before symptoms begin. The disease is well advanced by the time memory and behavior are affected…
‘Everything has changed’: Users of recalled eye drops describe permanent vision problems after infections
March 24, 2023 | Source: CNN
Renee Martray of South Carolina has severe and permanent corneal scarring resulting in vision loss. She says it’s like trying to peer through eyeglasses that have been dipped in oil. Nancy Montz of Ohio developed a corneal ulcer, spent three weeks in the hospital and lost vision in her left eye. Carla Oliva of Florida developed a severe eye infection and, when treatment failed, had to have her right eye removed. She’s now legally blind. The women said their problems began after they used EzriCare Artificial Tears…
Web Accessibility Laws Set To Enter New Era As DOJ Gears Up For Spring Rulemaking
March 24, 2023 | Source: Forbes
This May the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division will kickstart a rulemaking procedure some 13 years in the making aimed at codifying technical standards to assist public entities in complying with obligations to make their websites accessible to individuals with disabilities. The original rulemaking process began under the Obama administration back in 2010 but was then abandoned before being withdrawn in 2017. Within this legal vacuum, akin to not having building codes for accessibility in the physical world – inaccessible online public services and inconsistent judicial rulings on how the Americans with Disabilities Act should be applied to the internet…
‘Live free and die?’ The sad state of U.S. life expectancy
March 25, 2023 | Source: NPR
Just before Christmas, federal health officials confirmed life expectancy in America had dropped for a nearly unprecedented second year in a row – down to 76 years. While countries all over the world saw life expectancy rebound during the second year of the pandemic after the arrival of vaccines, the U.S. did not. Then, last week, more bad news: Maternal mortality in the U.S. reached a high in 2021. Also, a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found rising mortality rates among U.S. children and adolescents…
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Disability activists fight for equality in the South
March 27, 2023 | Source: WBUR
Disability rights activist Dom Kelly says he jokes that he and his triplet brothers started their advocacy work at the ripe age of 4 years old. “My mother put us in front of a room of high school seniors and said ‘tell your story, good luck,’” he says. From those early days in the classroom, he took a detour — to become a founding member of the rock band A Fragile Tomorrow. Today, he’s back to his roots, leading a new coalition that fights for disability justice across 14 states called New Disabled South…
NYC schools expand partnership with Special Olympics to improve sports accessibility
March 27, 2023 | Source: ABC
The city public schools are expanding their partnership with the Special Olympics of New York to ensure access to sports for students with disabilities at all 75 school districts. This partnership will allow more than 1,700 students with disabilities to play sports like volleyball, track and field, and basketball during the school day. There will also be after-school sports leagues for high school and middle school students. “This administration is committed to breaking down barriers to becoming a healthier city, and playing sports is often how young people start building healthy habits,” said New York City Mayor Eric Adams…
Officials say Virginia must improve disability services for students
March 27, 2023 | Source: VPM
Federal officials continue to find the Virginia Department of Education out of compliance with multiple requirements outlined under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, which ensures students with disabilities are provided a “free appropriate public education.” In a February letter Valerie Williams, director of the federal Office of Special Education Programs, outlined several concerns to the department, including that “the State does not have procedures and practices that are reasonably designed to enable the State to exercise general supervision over all educational programs for children with disabilities administered within the state.”…
Executive with Disabilities Shares Her Story
March 27, 2023 | Source: SHRM
While workers with disabilities are landing jobs at record rates, they continue to deal with unique challenges, such as physical barriers and social stigmas associated with their condition, that can make work more difficult. In March 2022, federal data revealed that employees with a disability were more than twice as likely as those with no disability to have requested a change in their workplace to better perform their job—such as asking for new or modified equipment or changes in work tasks or schedule. But these requests aren’t always fulfilled…
The mother of the disability rights movement knew this: ‘Disabilities are not problems to be solved’
March 29, 2023 | Source: WBUR
Disability rights activist Judith “Judy” Heumann passed away on March 4, 2023, at age 75. Widely regarded as the mother of the disability rights movement, Ms. Heumann played an instrumental role in developing and implementing multiple groundbreaking pieces of legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act, or ADA. I am among many mourning her loss and honoring her accomplishments. As somebody with epilepsy, I am also one of many who stood on Giant Judy’s shoulders when I relied on the ADA…
Disability Is Always Someone Else’s Problem
March 29, 2023 | Source: The Nation
In the United States, children with severe disabilities, especially intellectual disabilities, face an ignominious juncture around age 20. Aging out of school is referred to as “the cliff,” as students go abruptly from the structure and services provided in school into… nothingness as adults. During our son’s last Individual Education Plan (special needs) meeting, we argued for funding for his Covid makeup year (an additional year offered to some special needs students turning 21 in New York)…
Collaboration tools help and hinder workplace accessibility
March 29, 2023 | Source: TechTarget
A key benefit to the adoption of remote work and cloud collaboration tools during the COVID-19 pandemic was overcoming employment barriers for people with disabilities. Over the last three years, collaboration providers rapidly advanced their products and introduced features that opened doors to accessibility for employees with disabilities. But organizations and collaboration providers can’t get complacent, said Claudio Luis Vera, an accessibility analyst and community organizer…
Northwest is still working to catch accessibility regulations
March 29, 2023 | Source: Northwest Missourian
Over 30 years ago, the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law and prohibits the discrimination of people with physical or non-physical disabilities on a spectrum anywhere from telecommunications to accommodations within facilities. There are federal acts universities have to follow, like the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, as well as Missouri-specific laws. Within these, many standards were set on facilities to ensure the accessibility for those with disabilities…
Fed up with the inconvenience, disability advocates demand reliable elevators at subway stations
March 29, 2023 Source: amNY
Prior to the MTA monthly board meeting Wednesday, the Rise and Resist Elevator Action Group and disability advocates rallied outside MTA Headquarters at 2 Broadway in lower Manhattan, demanding that Governor Hochul and the MTA take immediate action to improve subway elevator reliability, alert riders to breakdowns, and fix elevators promptly. In 2022, there were 98,969 MTA elevator outages and 9,401 entrapments, and in January 2023, 10% of elevators and 11% of escalators were out of service…
Disability Inclusion in the Workplace
March 30, 2023 | Source: Darren Bates LLC
In recent years, the corporate world has made some strides in recognizing the value and potential of disabled employees. But the question remains: are companies committed to creating inclusive and accessible workplaces or just paying lip service? Despite the growing recognition of the need for disability inclusion, there is a noticeable gap between the accolades that companies receive and the meaningful actions they take. While many companies are quick to tout their diverse hiring practices and high scores on disability equality indexes, disabled employees often still face systemic barriers and discrimination in the workplace…
Ten things wheelchair users who travel by airplane want you to know
March 30, 2023 | Source: Sheri Byrne-Haber
In April through August, the planets align. This is the busiest part of “conference season” for my field, digital accessibility, with Global Accessibility Awareness Day taking place on the third Thursday of every May. It is also summer archery season. While four of the tournaments I participated in last year required air travel, I will be traveling to at least nine this year since I am trying to qualify for the Paralympic team. With apologies to David Lettermen, here is my list of “Ten Things” I wish all airline passengers and employees understood about wheelchair-using passengers…
Addressing Disability
March 30, 2023 | Source: Harvard Magazine
During a panel discussion Wednesday evening at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), politicians and educators came together to discuss why disabilities remain relatively ignored in classrooms and unnoticed in public policy. Throughout the evening, the panelists returned to the question of “value.” To what lengths must we go to show that people with disabilities provide great contributions to the world? How can we demonstrate that creating a more accessible world for people with disabilities benefits people of all ability levels? And must we prove the societal value of people with disabilities in order for them to gain respect?…
Is That Morning Cup of Coffee Good or Bad for Your Eyes?
March 30, 2023 | Source: AARP
Over the past few years, the headlines about caffeine and eye health have been confusing, to say the least: “Too much caffeine may raise the risk of blinding eye diseases,” one headline blared. Meanwhile, another headline asked: “Can coffee protect our eyesight?” It’s no wonder average people are confused. Mina Massaro-Giordano, MD, professor of clinical ophthalmology at Penn Medicine. Some 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine each day, whether from soda, tea, energy drinks or coffee…
EEOC sues Walmart for disability discrimination
March 30, 2023 | Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Wal-Mart Stores East, LP violated federal law when it refused to excuse an employee’s disability-related leave and fired him for violating the company’s attendance policy, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) alleged in a lawsuit filed today. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, on several occasions from April 2017 through August 2018, Walmart refused to provide a reasonable accommodation to a general merchandise support manager with a disability who was suffering from symptoms related to generalized convulsive epilepsy…
Jack Fact — More than 5.4 million people in the U.S. — or 1 in 45 — over age 18 are autistic, according to the CDC, which calculated the rates in adults for the first time in 2020.
Hit The Road Jack — Queensland to invest $12 million in tourism accessibility by 2032 and Traveling — and cruising — with a disability
International News
A new online resource aims to increase accessibility across the film industry
March 24, 2023 | Source: Little White Lies- UK
Part of the great joy of cinema is that it seemingly has no limits – great films have the capacity to transport us to entirely different worlds, challenge our perceptions, and show us something we’ve never seen before. As such, this world of possibilities has the potential to strike a chord with anyone, no matter their identity or background. Cinema is, in short, for everyone. Unfortunately that’s not quite the reality, and there are still huge barriers to accessing film for many, including geography, finances, and consideration of how disability impacts the film-viewing experiences…
Equal citizenship for persons with disabilities
March 27, 2023 | Source: Social Europe- Europe
In the European Union Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, published in March 2021, the European Commission announced its intention to propose legislation to create a European Disability Card recognised in all member states. Together with other organisations of persons with disabilities and the umbrella group the European Disability Forum, the European Blind Union had advocated this as a component of the strategy—and that it is presented as one of the ‘flagship initiatives’ is by itself a success…
Hospitality seeks exceptional accessibility with style for the disabled
March 28, 2023 | Source: Hospitality and Catering News- UK
The search is underway to find the very best in exceptional accessibility for disabled people and to reward hotels, restaurants, leisure, and tourism venues worldwide that are getting ‘Accessibility with Style’ right. The launch of the Blue Badge Access Awards 2023 sets the gold standard for ‘Access for All’ in the hospitality industry and will take place at the brand-new Sun Street Hotel, in London EC2 on Tuesday 25 April 2023. There are now 14.6 million disabled people in the UK increasing with an ageing population…
Persil Adds Accessibility-Minded On-Pack QR
March 28, 2023 | Source: Packaging World- UK
Persil’s capsules in plastic-free packaging and its Ultimate Liquids range will now feature a new enhanced Accessible QR (AQR) code on their packaging. The aim is to create a more inclusive experience in-store and at home for the UK’s 2 million blind and partially sighted people. The AQRs were created in partnership with augmented reality specialists Zappar and in collaboration with the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). Once accessed via smartphone, the code provides product, usage, safety, and recycling information in a structured way that has been designed with blind and partially sighted users in mind…
Canada’s Auditor General Issues Accessible Transportation Report
March 28, 2023 | Source: Railway Age- Canada
While VIA Rail Canada, the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority and the Canadian Transportation Agency have “taken steps to identify and remove some of the barriers faced by travelers with disabilities, many remain,” concludes a report released March 27 by Canada’s Office of the Auditor General. Transport Canada responds. In 2019 and 2020, nearly two-thirds of the 2.2 million persons with disabilities who traveled on trains, planes and other federally regulated modes of transportation in Canada faced a barrier, the Office reported…
Hand cycling across Canada promoting inclusivity, accessibility and activity after injury
March 28, 2023 | Source: Global News- Canada (Video)
Kevin Mills sustained a spinal cord injury while swimming in the ocean off the coast of Cuba, resulting in a complete C4 level injury, leaving him a quadriplegic. Mills will attempt to hand cycle across Canada this May promoting inclusivity, accessibility and activity after injury…
Ukrainians with disabilities and their families struggle as war makes life even harder
March 28, 2023 | Source: CNN- Ukraine
As Ukraine marked a year since Russia’s full-scale invasion, Sasha Kharitonov spent his days lying in a bed in a corner of a small room that smelled of cigarettes and had Russian TV playing in the background. He’s 17 years old but unable to move or eat on his own because of a severe form of cerebral palsy. He has frequent seizures and sometimes struggles to breathe. Sasha requires round-the-clock care, but after his mother died three months ago no one was willing to take care of him. He continued to live with his disabled stepfather and step-grandmother Halyna Chernyshova, an 81-year-old woman who sometimes refers to him as “it”…
‘An inherent indignity’: the fight to get workers with disability a living wage
March 28, 2023 | Source: The Guardian- UK
They are people who really can’t do anything,” Shawn Tarwater, a state representative in Kansas told a state house committee last month as he argued to protect a scheme that allows companies to pay people with disabilities as little as $3 an hour. “If you do away with programs like that, they will rot at home. There is no place for them to go.” The comments have sparked a storm of protests from disability advocates and highlighted a system of state tax credits across the US that allows employers to pay people with disabilities significantly less than the federal minimum wage…
Enterprising Deaf Persons Open A Centre To Promote Use Of Kenya Sign Language
March 28, 2023 | Source: Kenya News- Africa
He was born deaf. All his life, the world has been a beautiful but soundless place dominated by eternal silence. However, deafness has never held Mr Emmanuel Tokali back from achieving his dreams. Born and raised in Kilifi, he studied in special schools in both primary and secondary school but failed to join varsity due to lack of school fees. “I did not join any college or university due to lack of school fees but if I get support, I would love to study special needs education,” he said…
Disability and Islam – Phd Examines Unconscious Exclusion, Burden of Responsibility
March 28, 2023 | Source: All Africa- South Africa
Shaheed Moussa* attended Friday congregational prayers regularly at his local mosque – until he became a wheelchair user. But after a series of incidents left him feeling dehumanised and invisible, he stopped participating in the afternoon congregational prayer. As a Muslim, praying is an obligatory part of daily life, Fridays considered sacred days for worship. And Shaheed wanted to fulfil this obligation as part of the Muslim community, the Ummah. First it was the unnavigable, crumbling ramp into the building…
David Bale is enjoying the opportunities his disability has afforded him
March 31, 2023 | Source: Fansided- Australia
I just turned 50 early this year and it gave me the opportunity to look back at my life and all I have achieved. I am a husband, a dad, a grandfather, a son, brother and an uncle. I am also a swimmer and open national swimming record holder. My life changed just before I turned 40 when symptoms of my neurological condition presented themselves. I had facial palsy. Soon after this discovery, the left side of my body ceased functioning. I spent several months in a wheelchair until some function returned…
Hearing-impaired woman graduates with her Master’s degree and plans to give back to her community
March 31, 2023 | Source: IOL- South Africa
A hearing disability did not deter Elana Solomon from achieving her goals. Solomon, who recently graduated with a Master’s degree in human rehabilitation studies from Stellenbosch University, plans to use her degree to empower and enrich the lives of children with hearing disabilities. Her Master’s thesis looked at the various challenges faced by teachers in the implementation of vocational programmes in special needs schools for learners with severe intellectual disabilities…
Accessibility Blogs and Information
- Not willing to be neutral- Peter Torres Fremlin
- Wheelchair Travel Newsletter– March 30, 2023
- SA passes accessibility reporting bill- Pipe Dream
- Practicing digital accessibility in the workplace- Adobe
- The Rough Waters of Website Accessibility- Sheppard Mullin
- In Photos: Accessibility on an old campus – The Daily Princetonian
- To create a more accessible internet, context matters – VentureBeat
- Teams join forces to make campus more inclusive for all – UND Today
- Reduce Bias and Increase Inclusion in Your AI Hiring Technology- PEAT
- Accessibility In Tech: Diversifying Your Product For Global Access- Forbes
- Accessibility Series: Apps for People with Disabilities- A Healthier Michigan
- Digital Accessibility: learnings from a company doing it right- Michael Taylor
- ADA Under Attack in the Heartland!- National Council on Independent Living
- How accessible is Princeton’s campus? We broke it down. – The Daily Princetonian
- Do You Need to Update Your Website? – By Daisy Tackett – Hotel News Resource
- Screen Reader Testing For Websites Accessibility Compliance: A Simple Guide- Forbes
- Don’t Wait for New Tech to Make Your Site Accessible- Bureau of Internet Accessibility
- AI for Accessibility: Opportunities and Challenges- Dr. Cindy Bennett and Dr. Shari Trewin
- Class Actions on Accessibility of Public Companies’ Reports Dismissed- Barnea Jaffa Lande
- LSU disability panel outlines campus accessibility changes to come on campus- LSU Reveille
- Spotlighting Accessibility in the new NIST AI Risk Management Framework- Bill Curtis-Davidson
- St. Thomas’ focus on digital accessibility coincides with Disability Awareness Month- TommieMedia
- The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Third-Party Auditor for Your VPAT Engagement- Hiram Kuykendall
- ‘Dehumanizing’ experiences lead disabled student to demand improved bus accessibility- The Daily Tar Heel
- ‘Accessibility is a hat I wear 100% of the time’: Lessons learned from U.S. Bank, Citi, and Google- Tearsheet
- Towards Purpose led Experiences — A Critical Role of Digital Accessibility in BFSI Sector- Mayank Sharma
- The American Council of the Blind and Supporters Rally to Demand Accessible and Inclusive Currency- ACB
- A Look Inside Google’s ‘Reading Mode’ Accessibility Feature For ChromeOS, Chrome Browser- Steve Aquino
- Inaugural Director of Campus Accessibility Michael Barnes looks back on his first year – The Daily Princetonian
- Current Global Wants To Make Media Communications More Inclusive And Accessible Than Ever- Steven Aquino
- Universal design for learning helps all students connect with course materials to become expert learners- Nevada Today
- Data Spotlight: Employment of Women with Disabilities in Skilled Trade Professions- U.S. Department Of Labor Blog
- AXSChat with Lainey Feingold, disability rights lawyer and author of Structured Negotiation: A Winning Alternative to Lawsuits (Video)
- Amplifying our commitment to inclusiveness and accessibility this Disabilities Awareness Month- UKNow – University of Kentucky
Accessibility Announcements and Products
- AI, and the sounds of silence!
- Delta coming up with accessibility plan
- Kamloops wants accessibility group members
- Student Accessibility Service received scholarship
- Keene committee to state: Help us make state land accessible
- Yoast SEO Founders Invest in WordPress Accessibility Plugin
- Residents to pay for sidewalk accessibility updates in Sioux Falls
- New online portal helps meet the needs of students with disabilities
- Dacia Jogger is the UK’s only wheelchair accessible car for families
- Western NY business highlighting inclusivity, accessibility in fashion
- SEPTA Inks $5.8M Contract to Make 3 Stations Fully ADA Accessible
- It’s Severe Weather Awareness Week- Here’s how to get visual weather alerts
- TD launches new accessibility tool to drive inclusive online experiences for users
- Working together brings our neighbors with disabilities closer to independent living
- AudioEye Appoints J. Paul Getty CEO Katherine E. Fleming to Its Board of Directors
- FRONT Triennial wins Ohio Museums Association’s Best Community Partnership award
- Sorenson Chief Relationship Officer Receives Outstanding Integration Accessibility Award
- AudioEye Successfully Defends Customer in Precedent ADA Case for Website Accessibility
- Disability Rights Lawyer and Author Lainey Feingold Joins the Board of Directors of Teach Access
- Calling all disabled entrepreneurs! The Stelios 2023 Awards for Disabled Entrepreneurs are now open – £100k of cash prizes to be won!
- Equally AI Releases ChatGPT-Powered Report on Web Accessibility Websites in the US, Urges Business Leaders to Prioritize Inclusivity
Accessibility Forums, Tips, and Gaming
- Buttons and Links
- CSS-only Widgets Are Inaccessible
- Where to start with web accessibility
- Annotating Designs for Accessibility (YouTube)
- Connecting Dots of an Accessibility Audit
- Inclusive Strategies When Presenting Content
- Sabbath mode and assistive technology features
- Using LiveView’s New Primitives for Accessibility
- Accessibility on TiVo Stream 4K and the TiVo Stream App
- The Resident Evil 4 remake accessibility settings everyone should try from the start
- Data privacy, sponsorship, online accessibility: 5 interesting stats to start your week
- Vampire Survivors: Can a one-handed game be enjoyed by a person with a disability?
- Windows high contrast mode and focus outlines or: My focus indicators were inaccessible
- Web Accessibility Firechat with Léonie Watson and Hidde de Vries: CSS Speech + CMS accessibility (YouTube)
Accessibility Statements
- Addteq
- Morressier
- Service NSW
- The Broad Stage
- Societe Generale
- Sealed Envelope
- MRC PPU Reagents
- NYC Health + Hospitals
- Devon and Cornwall Police
- Disability Federation of Ireland
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