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Visit http://www.cnib.ca/righttoread to join the campaign and help protect the right to read for those of us with visual disabilities.

Reading is a right, not a privilege. We read to learn, work and connect to the world. Everyone has the right to read.

But if you are blind or partially sighted, that right could go missing.

Library services for blind and partially sighted Canadians are in jeopardy. For more than 90 years, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has struggled to fund these services with charitable dollars. But CNIB can’t afford to go it alone any longer.

Government funding is needed now, or the consequences will be dire: isolation and an unequal playing field for Canadians who deserve better.

On November 17, the Ontario government released the proposed Accessible Information and Communications Standard for a public review period. A standards development committee, composed of representatives from the disability and business communities, developed the proposed standard.

The proposed standard outlines how businesses and organizations may be required to provide accessible public information in various formats such as online, print, verbal and digital.

Everyone in Ontario can:
- review the proposed standard, and
- submit comments.

The committee will use the feedback received during the review period to shape the final proposed standard before submitting it to the government for consideration as law.

The deadline for commenting on the proposed standard is February 6, 2009.

In addition, there will be public consultation sessions across the province.

Learn more about the proposed standard and how to comment:
http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/accesson/business/information/

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) is pleased to announce the Initiative for Equitable Library Access (IELA).

The mandate of IELA is to coordinate activities designed to develop and cost the implementation of a nation-wide strategy that provides equitable library service to Canadians with print disabilities.

A description of IELA’s key activities can be found on LAC’s website for the Council on Access to Information for Print-Disabled Canadians at the following address:

www.collectionscanada.ca/accessinfo/005003-3000-10-2007-e.html

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This two-day Open Forum serves as an opportunity for a wider public debate on the challenges for international standards development for inclusion in elearning and to promote better awareness of the need for the same globally, across Canada and in Ontario.

Further information and online registration:

http://openforum.elsacc.ca/

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Libraries in Ontario will soon get more direction on how to achieve accessibility for all patrons, including those living with disabilities. The direction will come from standards developed under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Passed on June 13, 2005, the purpose of the AODA is ‘to achieve accessibility for Ontarians with disabilities with respect to goods, services, facilities, accommodation, employment, buildings, structures and premises on or before January 1, 2025.’

One of the first steps in implementing the act is to define just what ‘accessible’ means in each of these areas. To this end, the Canadian Standards Association is managing the work of Standards Development Committees in five areas:

• Customer service (law passed, effective January 1, 2008)
• Transportation (public review completed June 27-August 31, 2007)
• Information and communications (standard being drafted)
• Built environment (applications for membership being reviewed)
• Employment (applications for membership being reviewed)

Each committee includes a broad range of representatives from the public (e.g., libraries, municipalities), private (e.g., IBM, ITAC) and non-profit (e.g., disabilities organizations) sectors. Lari Langford, University of Toronto, is representing OLA members on the Information and Communications Standards Development Committee.

At one of its first meetings, the Information and Communications Standards Development Committee heard from Jutta Treviranus of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities and the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto. Treviranus presented three major challenges for setting accessibility standards:

• High rate of change – when you create a standard for up to 5 years you face the challenge of ensuring accessibility without impeding technological innovation.
• Legal jurisdiction – compliance with standards is only mandatory in sectors covered by Ontario legislation: education, health care and public institutions (including public libraries). For media, publishers and software developers, compliance is voluntary.
• Financial constraints – organizational budgets must absorb the one-time and ongoing costs to ensuring that standards are implemented and maintained.

Treviranus, who sits on several international standards committees, also shared some ‘lessons learned’ from other countries. She advised committee members to:

• Avoid specifying technologies and practices.
• Focus on interoperability and function.
• Obtain unbiased evaluations.
• Support inclusive design – i.e., design products that are accessible to everyone from the start, rather than trying to retrofit later on.

A public draft of the Information and Communications standard should be available in December, and comments from the public invited in January-February.

For further information:

• Access On: Breaking Barriers Together
  http://www.accesson.ca/
  Public education campaign site for the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Explains the five areas of standards in plain language. Links to the Act, the work of the Standards Development Committees and other resources.
• Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities
  http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/
  Main information site for the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.

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