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Transport for All to give evidence to Transport Select Committee › Transport...
Transport For All provides information and advice for disabled transport users in London. (RT @transportforall: We give evidence to the Transport Select cmtte inquiry on accessible transport on...
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3 Ways to Accelerate Ergonomics in 2013 | Health content from EHS Today
3 key methods for accelerating ergonomics and continuous improvement efforts in the workplace.Jane Sleeth's insight:Humantech brings a great article about how REAL ERGONOMICS is applied to the...
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msmirandal's photo on Instagram (Yes both screens are on and displaying something, and yes the ergonomics are poo in the #Toyota #Sienna.Jane Sleeth's insight:Just because it is a new car does not...
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VisitEngland launches new accessibility guide
National tourist board VisitEngland has launched Speak Up!, a free online guide designed to help tourism businesses market their accessibility to disabled travellers.Jane Sleeth's insight:I am sitting...
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Wheelchair anglers find few spots to safely fish - Napa Valley Register -...
Wheelchair anglers find few spots to safely fish - Napa Valley Register Napa Valley Register A few seconds earlier, Ruane's fishing buddy, Jim Elwood, had cast the line a third of the way into the...
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DuoStrap Neo Guitar Strap Offers Affordable Ergonomics - PR Web (press release)
DuoStrap Neo Guitar Strap Offers Affordable Ergonomics PR Web (press release) Constructed of all-synthetic materials including a densely padded elastic neoprene on the main shoulder sections, the...
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Deaf-blind Ottawa woman angry after ‘humiliating’ Air Canada flight
An Ottawa-area woman who is both blind and deaf has launched a formal complaint against Air Canada after a difficult trip to Alberta last week that she says left her frightened and humiliated.Jane...
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Riding High: Course makes biking accessible to children with disabilities...
RT @UWMadison: We love this @UWMadEducation effort to make #biking accessible to children with #disabilities: http://t.co/GT5yZaDdUQ #Madis…Jane Sleeth's insight:Over time designs such as this will be...
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Disabled Toilets - An Idiot's Guide
For anyone who owns a building which members of the public will enter including bars, nightclubs, restaurants, coffee shops, museums, shopping centres etc. Here are some dos and don'ts from an...
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BIFMA updates its ergonomics guideline
The Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association (BIFMA) recently revised its 2002 ergonomics guideline. Of particular interest to facility managers, architects and designers are the...
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How ADA accessible are city buildings? - Wyoming Tribune
How ADA accessible are city buildings? Wyoming Tribune That year, the DOJ issued the city a letter of noncompliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.Jane Sleeth's insight:Or the Canadian...
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8 Indisputable Reasons Why We Don't Need Offices
Looking back a decade or so ago it was absolutely essential to have an office, or more likely, a cubicle. That's where we had meetings, saw our coworkers, and just got work done. But today do we...
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The Multi Year Plan, Web Accessibility & the Ontario Build Code; Optimal...
Optimal Performance Consultants announces our first Seminar of our 2014 Series March 27th ;Strategies for Compliance with the AODA Act; the Multi-Year Plan & the Ontario Build Code (ABES)....
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Challenges for the disabled persist - Canada News - Castanet.net
17-20% of the Canadian Population with another percentage of aging population with disabilities & with money?? Yet the marketplace & employers are blind to these opportunities. Canadian...
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2014_Accssible%20Meeting%20OMSSA%20Guide%202%20-%20EN.pdf
Jane Sleeth's insight:Next time you are conducting a meeting, seminar, conference call please make sure that the meeting is #accessible for all of the age groups and levels of ability in your...
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Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
Strategies for Compliance Deadlines for AODA compliance continue to loom. Is your organization ready?Jane Sleeth's insight:Optimal Performance Consultants and Herman Miller are presenting a 2 hour...
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Natalie Taylor discusses integrating human factors and urban design in active transport #systemanalysis http://t.co/M1lzYG2g9CJane Sleeth's insight:As long as Designers of all types - Urban, Planners,...
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RT @SAGEpsychology: Read the latest issue of Ergonomics in Design: the quarterly of Human Factors applications @HFES http://t.co/Lsjjpi1EQxJane Sleeth's insight:Most people are not aware that...
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Merriam First City In Midwest To Adopt New Wheelchair-Accessible Icon - KCUR
Kansas City Star Merriam First City In Midwest To Adopt New Wheelchair-Accessible Icon KCUR Merriam has become the first city in the Midwest to adopt a more contemporary version of the...
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New signs to make Sydney's streets more accessible to the visually impaired -...
New signs to make Sydney's streets more accessible to the visually impaired Cities Today The most extensive network of pedestrian braille signs in Australia will soon be rolled-out, linking the entire...
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Times Up Ontario Employers; The AODA requires Mandatory Compliance Steps by...
Time's up ONTARIO private employers!! With 4 companies having been fined by the Directorate, a large increase in Human Rights Tribunal cases, civil suits commencing (see settlement of suit against...
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AODA regulations
Since the Ontario government proposed changes to the barrier-free requirements of the Ontario Building Code (OBC), under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), the new...
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