Ont. restaurants commit to improved accessibility
CTV - lease contract that demands upon expiry for the premises to undertake renovations that include accessibility features. In the past, the OHRC has called for the Ontario government to amend the provincial building code to meet accessibility standards.

Novus Leisure begins online drive
NetImperative - The search engine friendly sites meet W3C accessibility standards and plans are in place to provide a secure transactions area before Christmas to process online booking deposits along with the development of an API to allow select third parties to

Google, AOL, Yahoo improve service for the blind
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - The new Web services coincide with a push to revise federal Web accessibility standards and renewed legal efforts to get accessibility guidelines more widely adopted. Currently, no federal law requires all Web sites to be accessible to the blind or to

Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of
ZDNet Blogs - Barrier and Linsky during the Halloween hearing where, to anyone who didn't know any better, it sounded as though PWDs would be solely dependent on open source developers to make sure that ODF-compliant solutions met certain accessibility standards

Property problems: Who pays for providing wheelchair access?
New Zealand Herald - Q: Are businesses that are visited by the public required to provide wheelchair access where the need for A: The Building Act 2004 sets the accessibility standards for buildings.