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As the USA celebrates the (ADA) we get the DDA, Big Society and a Race online (by 2012)
Disabled people and Deaf people across the States celebrated the 20th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act yesterday and it was streamed live from The White House. It came into force in 1990.
It would take the UK another 6 years to get the Disability Discrimination Act into place – 2 years after the 1994 Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) Bill was talked out by Nicolas Scott – the then Minister for Disabled people using political...
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Category Blogs, Digital, Digital Discrimination, Digital Inclusion, Digital Rights, Legislation Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act, Caroline Gooding, David Ruebain, DDA, Deaf, Department of Work and Pensions, Digital Taskforce, Disability, Disability Discrimination, Disability Discrimination Act, Lord Ashley of Stoke, Nicolas Scott MP, President Obhama, Raceonline2012, The Big Society, The White House, USA