Restaurant refused blind friends
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Two blind people turned away from a restaurant because they had a guide dog are awarded compensation.
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Prototypes People suffering from loss of peripheral vision may soon be able to replace the canes they use to sweep the sidewalk for obstacles with eyeglasses that show them what lies beyond the limits of their vision. The glasses may also lead to technologies that enable the legally blind to return to driving their cars.
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CHICAGO -- For more than 70 years, U.S. law has required that federal buildings throughout the nation give blind people priority in running vending operations, gift shops and cafeterias. There is federal funding for training and start-up costs for blind entrepreneurs.
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Yesterday, at 2pm, I was surrounded by several large men, and physically restrained from moving for no reason. I managed to call the police, and when the cops arrived, they ordered the men to let me go. But the police refused to arrest my assailants. The State's Attorney refused to press charges. And private lawyers would not touch my case.  Read on for the full story.
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Two cuffed for wheeling dead pal to Pay-O-Matic Two men were arrested yesterday in New York's Hell's Kitchen district after failing to convince staff at a "check-cashing store" to honour the welfare cheque of a deceased friend, the New York Times reports.â¦
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NEW LONDON, Conn. - Call it crustacean discrimination. A lobster caught last weekend by Steve Hatch and his uncle Robert Green was spared from being cooked and ripped apart on a plate because of its color.
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Â· Motorist denied fitting laser-busting device Â· Businessman is 'first to be convicted' over equipment.
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An application for a privately funded visitors' centre at the Giant's Causeway is turned down.
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Health trusts refuse to fund a vital treatment for some elderly people losing their sight, the BBC learns.
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You could be next in the firing line Comment There are two cases, that I am aware of, moving through the courts in the US relating to accessibility of IT solutions.â¦
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By Thomas Ginsberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 9--Pleading hasn't worked. Freebies ultimately fail. Outright pressure can backfire.
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Without help, Marc Maurer, who is blind, cannot distinguish between bottles of Tylenol and Vitamin C or tell if he's handing a cashier a $20 bill or $1 bill. Four years ago, he signed for what he thought was a $44 hotel room bill that was charged to his credit card for $44,000.
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Inaccessible software Oracle is being taken to task in a lawsuit that complains software it sold to the state of Texas is unusable by blind employees.â¦
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A survey of the UK's top 30 e-commerce websites shows they all fail to provide suitable access for disabled customers.
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An advocacy group and three blind state emoployees have filed a lawsuit against the state and Oracle Corp. seeking to have all software used by state employees accessible to blind workers.
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No more orders taken after 1 December 2005
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Restaurants, under fire from health advocates for too-big servings and not enough detail on nutrition, are fighting back.