[nfbwatlk] Deaf-blind woman tests Canada's equality guarantee, The Star, July 29 2014

[debby phillips]

Well, before the days of taking tests online, and even having 
materials in braille and speech, when we used readers to take 
tests, it was shone that it took more time for a reader to read 
them out loud and get our answer down on the test.  So we were 
allowed more time to complete tests.  If we have had legitimate 
requests for more time to do things, then certainly those who are 
deaf and deaf blind should.  I don't know all the intricacies of 
how folks with different disabilities perform tasks, so it's 
difficult to respond to part of this.  And I'd love to sit around 
and talk with people about what equality means.  I don't think it 
means uniformity.    Debby