by Trish Robichaud | Nov 26, 2015 | All, Employment, Media Coverage
The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement with the city of Baltimore, Maryland, to end hiring practices that discriminate against people with disabilities. The agreement, filed as a consent decree along with a complaint in the U.S....
by Trish Robichaud | Nov 13, 2015 | Accommodations, All, Resources/Tools
HILLIARD, OH: IDEAL Group Apps4Android today announced the release of “Document Knowledge Miner,” an Android application that enables individuals with print disabilities to acquire knowledge from digital documents, even if the documents were not designed with...
by Trish Robichaud | Sep 14, 2015 | Accommodations, All, Attitudinal Barriers, Employment, Mental Health Disabilities
The following is a short story taken from IN OUR SHOES: Practical Strategies for AODA Compliance, a catalogue of real-life situations where people with disabilities encounter barriers to inclusion. Those stories go on to also provide real-life solutions & best...
by Trish Robichaud | Aug 18, 2015 | Accommodations, All, Attitudinal Barriers, Education, Employment, Visual Disabilities
The following is a short story taken from IN OUR SHOES: Practical Strategies for AODA Compliance, a catalogue of real-life situations where people with disabilities encounter barriers to inclusion. Those stories go on to also provide real-life solutions & best...
by Trish Robichaud | Jun 9, 2015 | All, Types of Disabilities
Disabled mannequins are eliciting astonished looks from passers-by on Zurich’s Bahnhofstrasse. Between the perfect mannequins, there will be figures with scoliosis or brittle bone disease modelling the latest fashions. One has shortened limbs; the other a...
