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Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes November 18 - December 1, 2023
Contents
Access
Section 508 Best Practices Webinar in Archives: Returning to the Office: Accessible Hybrid Meetings
W3C WCAG 2.2 Now Available
Accessibility Standards Canada | Quarterly Newsletter – December 2023
Coming soon: 2023 Accessibility Progress Report
Accessibility News - December 2023
Health
A Dementia Strategy for Canada
Human Rights
International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2023
We join with everyone around the globe in recognizing International Day of Persons with Disabilities 2023.
Chairperson's Update - November 2023
10 Social Justice Principles
The CCD Council has been working on principles to guide our social justice work. Our starting place has been a modified version the Sins Invalid 10 Social Justice Principles*, which we are revising for our Canadian context.
In brief, the 10 principles are:
Weekly Email Digest for Information Sharing Purposes November 14 - November 17, 2023
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Access
U.S. Access Board Webinar: Emergency Transportable Housing (December 7)
Government of Canada
A New Online Tool to Get Feedback on the Regulations for the Canada Disability Benefit
Newsletters
Brain Injury Canada Newsletter
Cooperation Canada
Disability Alliance BC | Transition Magazine
I was parked luggage: Accessibility advocates speak out about demeaning air travel
Click on the following link to read an article, including comments from Heather Walkus, CCD Chairperson, about barriers people with disabilities encounter when travelling by air in Canada. https://kitchener.citynews.ca/2023/11/10/gaping-holes-in-the-rules-demean-and-injure-travellers-with-disabilities-advocates/
Chairperson's Update - October 2023
October was Disability Employment Awareness month (October 1 – 31). In our October Update, we will share information about an employment project, Building Employment Pathways for People with Disabilities, led by the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) that CCD is involved in, along with a number of other organizations.