Hearing Awareness Project
The Canadian Hard of Hearing Assocation has compiled a list of federal addresses to consult your Member of Parliament, and a generic letter to send to your Member of Parliament:
- Have events, constituency and campaign offices in accessible facilities and locations.
- Campaign and party offices should have a TTY, amplified telephones and an Assistive Listening Device (ALD) for use in small group meetings.
- Have Computer Assisted Real Time Translation (CART) available at all events and advertise the fact.
- Have community meetings accessible to persons with hearing loss by providing CART, ALDs and sign language interpreters.
- Use open/closed captioning in campaign commercials/videos.
- Design or amend advertising/campaign materials in captioned formats that are accessible to persons with hearing loss such as videos, DVD's, computer disks and downloadable material from your websites.
- Make campaign and party web sites fully accessible to persons with hearing loss by including a toll free TTY number and an email address to request further information. Ensure any and all video clips are open captioned.
- Encourage all party staff and campaign workers take part in sensitivity training.
- Recruit/encourage persons with hearing loss to join and become active in the party and campaign (equal opportunity).
- Establish an ongoing Disability Advisory Committee to consult with staff and party members on matters relating to the above.
- Download CHHA's Communication Accessibility Checklist to ensure access to your offices. The checklist is available at: http://chha.ca/chha/projects-communication.php.
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