"Accessibility requirements" refers to the specific standards and guidelines that ensure everyone can easily access and use something, such as a website, building, or product. It ensures that people with disabilities or limitations can navigate and use things effectively and without barriers.
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As many colleagues involved in serving Canadian government's online projects along the years, I too did my fair part of fence - sitting about
web accessibility requirements.
The web
accessibility requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act (AODA) mirror those of the WCAG 2.0, except for guidelines that refer to captioning for live multimedia content and providing audio descriptions for video (Guidelines 1.2.4 and 1.2.5).
Blio was created as a joint venture between Kurzweil Technologies (headed by Ray Kurzweil) and the National Federation of the Blind, so it meets
accessibility requirements for the sight impaired and blind.
One of the authors of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act, former Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, is urging Cuomo to push for disabled
accessibility requirements in any legislation that authorizes ride - hailing companies to operate upstate.
These are lawsuits filed by people who are using
accessibility requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act to extract fees from small property owners.
The government accuses Glenwood of being in violation of Fair Housing
Act accessibility requirements and «unlawfully discriminated against persons with disabilities... by failing to design and construct Liberty Plaza so as to be accessible to persons with disabilities.»
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on accessibility requirements and find out what it takes to boost PowerPoint and audio / video files» accessibility, how to make your content mobile ready, and what tools to use.
The joint session of PWG Accessibility Task Force, Accessible Guidelines (Silver) Task Force and APA was addressed the incorporation of
accessibility requirements specific to publishing to WCAG 3.0 (Silver) and way forward for Media Overlays specifications.
In their current format, the DLH tables could not meet the web
accessibility requirements set out under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.
The government, through the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, is holding a two - month public consultation to develop
updated accessibility requirements for the Building Code.
Such a tender could be based on clear terms of reference, which would for example
include accessibility requirements (in terms of costs, effort, distance, online), quality requirements (with measureable fairness standards) and requirements relating to the business model itself.
It can be difficult for some people to enjoy video games the way we do and apparently Microsoft has been working on a new type of controller that can bring our hobby to those with
different accessibility requirements.
More recently, taking effect on August 1st 2011, the Treasury Board set in its Standard on Web Accessibility which includes
new accessibility requirements: each web page must meet all WCAG 2.0 conformance requirements up to the AA Level.
If you have a newer building with four or more units, it should have been constructed to meet
basic accessibility requirements, such as doors, kitchens and light switches that can be used by people in wheelchairs.
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provides accessibility requirements for employees and potential employees in all phases of the employment cycle, and may obligate employers to make significant changes in their human resources practices and processes.
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Proposed Accessibility Requirements, Proposed integrated accessibility standards under the AODA, public consultation, Regulatory Registry, The Information and Communications Standard, the Licence Appeal Tribunal, training, Transportation standards
His practice focuses on business and real property litigation in state and federal courts, with particular experience with handling disputes involving landlord - tenant issues, commercial contracts, construction, ADA and
state accessibility requirements, corporate conflicts and unfair business competition.
Some housing may be subject to
accessibility requirements of other laws, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), local building codes, and other laws.
We are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner, and will do so by preventing and removing barriers to accessibility and meeting
accessibility requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
NAR is stepping up efforts to protect property owners from getting caught unfairly in murky rules governing Fair Housing
Act accessibility requirements.
To this end, the government, through the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing, is holding a two - month public consultation to develop
updated accessibility requirements for the Building Code.
With this legislation, California joins state and municipal entities in other parts of the country that have similar
web accessibility requirements for governmental entities and contractors.
a way to maintain the side - by - side, English / French comparison, which can be an important part of some statutory interpretation exercises, while still
meeting accessibility requirements.»
We are committed to meeting the needs of people with disabilities in a timely manner and will do so by preventing and removing barriers to
accessibility requirements under the Integrated Accessibility Standards regulation (the IASR) enacted under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (the AODA).
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