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		<title>NZ Will Increase Online Service Delivery - Don't Forget People With Disabilities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The article &#034;Hi-tech threat to public servants&#034; on stuff.co.nz discusses how the New Zealand Government is planning on moving more of its services online and do away with employees more and more. The article mentions how such a move would impact elderly Kiwis and families on low-income, but does not mention at all how it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Used to Counter Abuse of Disability Parking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TVNZ One News reported new technology that allows monitoring of mobility parking spaces. The new technology is touted as a breakthrough and the developers  say it might even eliminate disability parking poaching altogether.

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		<title>New Zealand Media Continues To Use Inappropriate Disability Language</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Journalists need to respect disability language. There have been many instances of the use of the expression &#34;Wheelchair bound&#34; in the New Zealand press. When someone points out this is an expression to be avoided, the journalists or newspapers have been saying they thought the expression appropriate. They continue to use it.

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		<title>Taking Advantage Of Web Technologies To Increase Service Provision And Decrease Costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is the entire text of the research paper I prepared for my presentation at the Disability Studies: Every Body In Conference, held in November 2011 in Dunedin, New Zealand.

Download the PDF version of this paper.

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		<title>When Admiration Reflects Low Expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use a wheelchair. At least once a week I overhear comments from  well-meaning, but ignorant people about me. They express admiration at the fact I am doing mundane things such as grocery shopping or exercising. I&#039;m tired of this misplaced &#34;respect&#34; or &#34;admiration&#34;.

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		<title>Wheelchair Innovations and Designs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicolas</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a blurb about a new &#34;8-speed chair&#34; in the NZ Herald&#039;s Tech Universe of 17 October. It is a new design for a &#34;rowable&#34; wheelchair, appropriately called the RoChair. I had a look at the chair and I am just not convinced. This is the latest in a series of wheelchair innovations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Disappointing Level of Accessibility from Australian Web Industry 2011 Entries</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://accessibility.net.nz/?p=198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I judged the entries to the Australian Web Awards 2011 for accessibility. I was extremely disappointed by the low level of accessibility of the entered websites. I reviewed 52 websites. None of the sites were fully accessible.

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		<title>20 Years of ADA in the USA - Have Things Really Changed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 02:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday marked the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). I tweeted about it, pondering whether or not things have changed significantly since then.

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		<title>Curb Cut To Nowhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:46:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting curb cub on Massey University campus. It leads to a flight of stairs. There is no sidewalk that could be used. Just&#8230; A flight of steps.

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		<title>Verizon Settles A Disability Discrimination Employment Suit For US$20 Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 23:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://accessibility.net.nz/?p=195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The US EEOC announced that telecommunications company Verizon settled a disability discrimination lawsuit. The suit alleged that Verizon unlawfully denied reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilites Act (ADA) for hundreds of its employees. They settled for US$20,000,000. That seems like a great win. Yet there&#039;s a part of me that is really worried about [...]]]></description>
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