TECHNOLOGY
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2006
December
Cab Company
Condemned For Refusing Guide Dog
Teen's Advocacy Leads To Scooter Law
Change
UN Uses International
Disability Day To Focus On Website "E-Accessibility"
November
Woman
Appeals Braille And Large-Print Menu Decision
Wearable Technology: Have Shirt, Will
Travel
Apartment Manager
Can't Bar My Guide Dog, Says Woman
Medicare To Pay More For Motorized
Equipment
Supreme Court Refuses
To Hear Challenge To Law Penalizing Voting Helpers
Mixed Results Over Accessible
Voting
Justice Department
Doesn't Penalize States For Failing On Voting Act
Ellis Island To Provide Sign
Language Interpreters Under Settlement
October
Report:
Voters With Disabilities Still Face Discrimination At Polls
In Trend-Setting Move, Safeway
Stores To Install Privacy Key Pads At Check-Outs
Service Dog Saved Woman, But Died
Rescuing Cat
Restaurant Manager
Refuses To Serve Soldier Over Guide Dog
Groups Call For Action Against
Medicare Power Equipment Cuts
September
'Smart'
Wheelchair Uses Cameras To 'Sense' Terrain
Advocates Sue Washington Redskins Over
Captioning
Study: Top 30
Business Websites Exclude Millions
Guide Dog Association Warns Of
Curb-less Dangers
Health
Department Directs Woman To Prove Her Monkey Is Service Animal
Judge: Accessibility Laws Cover
Websites
School Board
Reverses Position On Teen's Service Dog
August
Family
Chooses Home-Schooling After Service Dog Denial
Reports That "Seeing Shoes" Will
Replace Walking Sticks And Guide Dogs Might Be Premature
Settlement Allows Goats To Stay
With Boy
KFC Apologizes For
Guide Dog Blunder
July
Groups Fight
Medicare Restriction On iBot Funding
Judge Orders Shop Manager To Pay For
Rejecting Man And Guide Dog
Man Sues National Park Over Right To
Bring Dog To Nude Beach
New
Implant Turns Brain Impulses Into Motion
School Bans Boy, 5, And His
Dog
June
Europe Commits
To Accessibility Plan For 'E-Inclusion' By 2010
Formula One Designer Rolls Out New
Off-Road Wheelchair
Guilty
Cabbie Is First Convicted Of Refusing Guide Dog
Woman Defends Her Chickens
May
UK Report: Few
Charity Websites Are Accessible
9/11 Survivor Credits Guide Dog With
Saving His Life
Woman Got
Wheelchair, But No Way To Use It
Civil Rights Advocate Sues Over
Service Dog Ban
Woman Asks For
Apology After Hospital Rejects Service Dog
Neighbors Ordered To Get Rid Of Vicious
Dog
April
Off-Road
Wheelchair Features Hybrid Engine And GPS
Student Council Candidate Campaigns For
Position While Teaching About Technology
Sign Language Becomes Official
National Language
Adventurers
Plan To Climb Swiss Peak In Robo-Suits
March
Judge Orders
Dad To Remove Son's Pig Or Face Jail Time
Advocates Hold Sit-in At Doctor's Office
Over Sign Language Interpreters
Voters Sue To Block Diebold Touch
Screens
Commission Seeks
High-Profile Legal Challenge Over Web Access
Offers Pour In To Help Man Who Lost
"Overweight" Service Dog
Justice Department Begins Actions
Against States Over Accessible Voting
Advocates Outraged At Plan To Charge Air
Fare For Service Animals
February
Man Refuses
Judge's Apology Over Service Dog Comments
City Is First In Missouri To Use New
Touch-Screen Voting Systems
Report: Nineteen States Missed HAVA
Accessible Polling Deadline
Blind Advocates Sue Retail Giant
Target Over Website Usability Problems
January
Judge To
Decide Whether Township Must Allow Boy's Goats As Reasonable
Accommodation
Proposal
Would OK Monkeys As Service Animals
Grand Jury Indicts Man Over Guide Dog
Hit-And-Run
Five-Year-Old
Uses Walker To Pass Ballet Exam
Judge To Decide Boy's Goat
Case
Designer Of New,
Light-weight Wheelchairs In Search Of Customers
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2005
December
Dog
That Prompted Change In Senate Rules Dies
Rights Group Threatens Protest To
Force End To Modified Cars Dispute
Telemarketing Firm To Pay Blind Woman
$200,000 For Rejecting Her Guide Dog
Federal Court Rejects Boy's Goat
Case
November
Commission Pooh-Poohs Condo
Restriction On Guide Dog
Despite Breathing Scare, Professor
Hawking Put On Show As Promised
Communication Device May Have Saved
Lives In Thanksgiving Parade Balloon Mishap
Blind Woman Told To Remove Guide Dog
From Pub
Web Users Say
Usability, Not Accessibility, Is Most Important
October
School
Bans Teen's Service Dog
New
Software Translates Text Into Animated Sign Language
Student Claims She Needs Ferret At
College Dorm
Oregon Good
Samaritan Rounds Up Equipment For Hurricane Victims
Blind Student Recovering After
Accident That Killed Guide Dog
September
Professor Hawking Moves To
Blink-Control Device
August
Student Sues
Activities Association To Use Golf Cart
Missourians Sue Over Medicaid Cuts For
"Optional" Equipment
Voter
Claims Ballot Signing Rule Violates Federal Rights
Lister Sips And Puffs Her Way Across
English Channel And Into History
Blind Users Test New GPS Mapping
Technology
Most UK Telephone
Websites Not Yet Accessible
Ballot
Measure Would Protect Service Animals
New Implant Helps Man Cough
July
Police Officers
Learn Sign Language
New Jersey
Voting Places And Shopping Malls Still Have Access Barriers
College Testing Company Apologizes
For Service Dog Goof
Blind
Voters Sue Florida County Over Inaccessible Voting Systems
June
Trumpeter Plays
Again, 10 Years After Spine Injury
Police Launch Text Messaging And Sign
Language Project
May
Woman Speaks Her
Mind, But Not So Much To The Press
Failure To Purchase $1,000 Software Program
Costs Satellite Company $8 Million
British Voters Asked To Rate Polling
Access
Seattle Woman Wins
Service Dog Discrimination Case
April
Raging Against The
Machine: The Mik Scarlet Wheelchair Fiasco
New Zealand Businesses At Risk Over
Internet Access Problems
Survey: Europe Should Require IT To Be
Accessible
Passengers And Dogs
Can Ride Together Under New British Guidelines
March
Study: Power
Chairs And Scooters Save Medicare More Money
Attorneys Establish Fund For Sign
Language Interpreters
New Device
Could Steady Shaky Mouse
February
Witnesses:
Man Bites Dog
San Diego TV
Stations Face Fines Over Captioning Failures During Wildfires
Special Education District Settles With
Teaching Assistant Over Service Dog
Service Dog Was Not Allowed In Theater,
Woman Claims
Student Turns
Towing Solution Into Growing Business
January
Survey:
Polling Places Need Many, Small Changes By 2006
Wyoming Lawmakers Look At Protecting
Service Animals
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2004
December
Look Ma! No
Hands! No Joystick! No Implant! Just My Thinking Cap!
Interpreter Side-Stepped Ethics To
Get Truth To Deaf Viewers
November
Accessibility A Mixed-Bag For Voters
With Disabilities
Employers
Urged To Employ People With Disabilities And Technologies
October
National
Council On Disability Says Universal Design Is Good Business
53 People To Get New Speech
Devices
Lawmaker Urges
Adapted Vehicle Allowance For Children Under Age Three
Suit Attempts To Toss Out
Touch-Screen Voting Systems
It
Could Be All In Your Mind
Elections Official Wants
Touch-Screen Ballot "Images" Accepted In Recounts
Recruitment Website Courts Job-Seekers
With Disabilities
Duval
County Still Not Ready With Accessible Voting System
September
Ruling That
Website Is Not An "Public
Accommodation" Stands (Sept. 29, 2004)
Have Nose Will Travel: Introducing The
'Nouse' (Sept. 16, 2004)
PBS Runs
"Freedom Machines" Documentary On Assistive Technology (Sept. 13, 2004)
August
Citizen's
Efforts Lead To New Service Animal Protections (August 27, 2004)
Service
Animals Given New Protections (August 26, 2004)
School Shoos Service Dog (August 6,
2004)
One In Seven UK Cinemas
Offers Captioning And Audio-Description (August 3, 2004)
July
Teen Uses DynaVox
To Sing National Anthem At Cleveland Indians Game (July 9, 2004)
"English
Only" Rule Applies To Guide Dog, Too, School Says (July 8, 2004)
June
Accessible
Voting Advocates Accused Of Being Too Tight With Electronic Voting Machine
Makers (June 11, 2004)
May
Missouri Schools
Deny Service Dogs To Student, Aide (May 24, 2004)
April
New Ballot
Marking Technology May Be Answer To Optical Scan Problems (April 27,
2004)
Blind Lawmaker To Get
Braille Translator (April 26, 2004)
Students Learn High-Tech Skills Through
Model Program (April 26, 2004)
New
System Matches Guide Dogs To Owners More Efficiently (April 21, 2004)
E-Government Initiative Websites Are Not
Entirely Accessible, Researchers Find (April 19, 2004)
Website Designers Continue To Violate UK
Access Law (April 14, 2004)
Women
Accuse Buffet Of Turning Them And Service Dogs Away (April 12, 2004)
Illinois Man First In Midwest To Own An iBot
(April 8, 2004)
March
Portable
"Seeing-Eye" Computer In The Works (March 31, 2004)
Lawmakers Miss Chance To Get Message To
Many Internet Users (March 15, 2004)
Voters Sue California Counties And
Secretary Of State Over Touchscreens (March 8, 2004)
Discrimination Case Can Move Forward,
Judge Rules (March 1, 2003)
February
Dad Designs
Cool Equipment For Kids (Feb. 26, 2004)
Tele-Conferencing Puts Distant Sign
Language Interpreters In Hospital Rooms (Feb. 25, 2004)
GPS Technology Helps Blind People Get Around
More Independently
American
Sign Language Fastest Growing "Foreign
Language" (Feb. 13, 2004)
Prisoners Refurbish Wheelchairs Destined For
Third World Countries (Feb. 3, 2004)
January
New Website
Gives Info On Disability-Friendly Businesses (Jan. 22, 2004)
Many Corporate Web Designers "Don't Get
It" When It Comes To Accessibility (Jan. 20, 2004)
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2003
December
Improved
Telecommunications Access For Deaf Users (Dec. 18, 2003
News Sites Slow To Make Content
Accessible (Dec. 15, 2003)
First-Grader With Autism To Get Service
Dog (Dec. 12, 2003)
November
Top China
Buffet Will Pay Family For Excluding Service Dog (Nov. 20, 2003)
Golf
Commission Reviews Ban On Motorized Carts (Nov. 17, 2003)
October
"Making
Life Better For The Disabled" (Oct. 30, 2003)
September
Digital TV
Excludes Many, Report Shows (Sept. 19, 2003)
Man Credits Service Dog And Van Driver For
Saving His Life (Sept. 8, 2003)
August
Gallery
Owner Calls Eviction 'Discriminatory' (August 29, 2003)
iBot Climbing Wheelchair Finally Gets FDA
Approval (August 13, 2003)
July
Groups Fuss
Over Woman Training Shetland Pony (July 31, 2003)
Mind Over Wheels? Scientist Develop
Brain-Powered Wheelchair (July 23, 2003)
Blind Web Users Go After
Disability-Unfriendly Web Designers (July 11, 2003)
June
Students And
Staff Thank Volunteer For Help In Classroom Over The Years (June 30,
2003)
May
Duo Excels
With Computer Technology (May 21, 2003)
Passenger Seeks Changes In Train's Guide Dog
Policy (May 7, 2003)
March
Sign
Language Can Help Infants Communicate (March 31, 2003)
February
Feds Issue
Fact Sheet On Teleworking As ADA Accommodation (Feb. 6, 2003)
January
Lawmaker
Wants Service Dogs As Option For In-home Supports (Jan. 31, 2003)
Cell Phone Features Help, If You Can
Afford Them (Jan. 7, 2003)
Feds
Move Technology Access Deadline (January 2, 2003)
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2002
December
Individualized
Assistive Technology Can Lead To More Independence (Dec. 5, 2002)
November
IBot: Pros And
Cons Of "Barrier-Breaking" Wheelchair (Nov. 13, 2002)
Furry Helpers Can Come In Small Packages
(Nov. 5, 2002)
October
Computer Company
Leads Initiative To Make Library Workstations More Usable (October 30,
2002)
Flap Over Untrained Service
Dog Ends Quietly (October 8, 2002)
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