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Empower U: Learn to Access Your Disability Rights Training on Canadian Human Rights, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) and its Optional Protocol (OP) training aims to increase awareness of how to address discrimination using more familiar Canadian human rights laws such as Human Rights Codes and the newer international Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). This is training for persons with disabilities by persons with disabilities. The training is part of a project funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and implemented by the Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD) in collaboration with Canadian Multicultural Disability Centre Inc. (CMDCI), Citizens With Disabilities – Ontario (CWDO), Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD) and National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS). Read more.
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Technology
CCD works from a human rights perspective, which argues that technology needs to be accessible so that people with disabilities experience its benefits. CCD works for laws, policies and programs that remove barriers to technology.
CCD’s Access to Technology Committee participates in research projects on accessible technology, liaises with technology service providers, appears before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).
Recent Work
August 19, 2014
Let's Talk TV
For too long, the CRTC has relied upon the market to deliver accessibility. Throughout its history, CCD has witnessed the failure of voluntary self-regulation by industry. CCD urges regulation of the broadcast industry to achieve the progressive realization of complete access to television by Canadians with disabilities and that the CRTC undertake consultation with the representative organizations of people with disabilities as it regulates for accessibility. Read more.
May 31, 2012
Crusading for 24/7 Access
The Federal Court of Appeal released its decision in the Jodhan case. The Federal Court of Appeal recognized that Ms. Jodhan “has been denied equal access to, and benefit from, government information and services provided online to the public … and this constitutes discrimination against her on the basis of her physical disability, namely, that she is blind.” The Court also stated that, “Treasury Board has a constitutional obligation to bring the government departments and agencies under its control into compliance with the Charter within a reasonable time period, such as 15 months;”. Read more.
November 17, 2011
Comments on the Broadcasting Accessibility Fund
CCD provides comments regarding Bell Canada’s Proposal for the Broadcasting Accessibility Fund dated May 6, 2011. Read more.
More on Technology
November 17, 2011
CCD Comments on Over-the-Top Services
November 17, 2011
CCD Comments on BCE Purchase of CTV
September 21, 2010
Access to Technology
August 19, 2009
Review of the Internet Traffic Management Practice of Internet Service Providers
July 24, 2008
Council of Canadians with Disabilities Preliminary Submission to CRTC Re: Unresolved issues related to the accessibility of telecommunications and broadcasting services for persons with disabilities, Broadcasting Notice of Public Hearing CRTC 2008-8 and T
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