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Jetstar In Good Company Discriminating Against Passengers With Disabilities

April 19th, 2011

The UK Telegraph just reported that the European Union is under pressure to enforce equality rules on airlines. It appears that it's not just Jetstar that is discriminating against passengers with disabilities. It is enough of a problem in Europe that a complaint was lodged by Shuaib Chalklen - a wheelchair user who happens to be a United Nations Disability Rights Monitor.

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Jetstar Shows Pattern Of Discrimination Against People With Disabilities

April 14th, 2011

Just a couple days after we heard that Jetstar had refused passage to two wheelchair users because they didn't have "carers", we learn that Jetstar refused to carry 6 out of 8 wheelchair using paralympians.

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UQAT Prefers To Pay for Soccer Field Than Disabled Student's Safety

August 21st, 2010

The parking lot at the Rouyn campus of the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue is not wheelchair friendly. This issue is only one of many physical accessibility barriers at the university. I understand that there are students who have been battling the university for at least 3 years, asking them to resolve the issues. So far, they have gotten nowhere.

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Accessibility And The Business Of Open Source

January 16th, 2010

I will be doing a short presentation on accessibility during the Business of Open Source Miniconf at the linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington. This presentation will run from 14h30 to 15h15 on Monday 18 January 2010.

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Is It Any Wonder I'm An Advocate At Heart?

December 2nd, 2009

I was cooking dinner, listening to music, and singing along to it. As I was singing, I had a bit of an epiphany! I was singing "Le Drapeau Rouge", a song I heard regularly as a young kid. Perhaps it is not so surprising I have a bit of a revolutionary spirit…

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