WEBVTT 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:03.559 The Convention for the Rights of People with Disabilities 00:00:03.559 --> 00:00:08.758 is a convention that describes many facets of what needs to be done 00:00:08.758 --> 00:00:12.591 by state parties to support those who have disabilities. 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:39.263 One of our key challenges is really making sure that 00:00:39.263 --> 00:00:40.729 authors know what to do. 00:00:40.729 --> 00:00:42.930 Because, you know, we can make the most fantastic 00:00:42.930 --> 00:00:47.030 tool out there, but there's still a need for authors 00:00:47.030 --> 00:00:49.312 who are creating content to do the right thing with that 00:00:49.312 --> 00:00:54.412 information and to provide equivalence for visual imagery 00:00:54.412 --> 00:00:57.463 to provide structure that can be used by people with 00:00:57.463 --> 00:00:59.079 a variety of disabilities. 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.745 And education is really a key issue for making sure 00:01:02.745 --> 00:01:05.245 that can happen. 00:01:06.983 --> 00:01:10.281 Now, if you've got a company like ANZ Bank 00:01:10.281 --> 00:01:12.049 down in Melbourne, Austraila 00:01:12.049 --> 00:01:13.432 it resonates very well with them. 00:01:13.432 --> 00:01:14.732 They've got an accessibility policy. 00:01:14.732 --> 00:01:16.331 They're executing on that policy. 00:01:16.331 --> 00:01:18.849 And doing as much as they can to make their websites 00:01:18.849 --> 00:01:19.665 accessible. 00:01:19.665 --> 00:01:22.916 In some other company's case, there...honestly, 00:01:22.916 --> 00:01:24.114 is indifference. 00:01:24.114 --> 00:01:28.682 There's the mindset that, "Gosh, would blind people 00:01:28.682 --> 00:01:31.831 come buy my stuff, and, uh... I don't even know any 00:01:31.831 --> 00:01:32.633 blind people." 00:01:32.633 --> 00:01:33.382 So, it really varies. 00:01:33.382 --> 00:01:36.100 That's where, in the private sector, we certainly have 00:01:36.100 --> 00:01:38.831 a responsibility to continue to raise awareness 00:01:38.831 --> 00:01:42.498 with customers as to the business value of accessibility. 00:01:47.313 --> 00:01:50.300 I think it's not just a matter of legislation. 00:01:50.300 --> 00:01:54.535 It's implementing the legislation... abiding by the 00:01:54.535 --> 00:02:03.268 legislation by people, by governments, by citizens, by businesses. 00:02:03.268 --> 00:02:04.334 This is the main issue. 00:02:04.334 --> 00:02:07.202 You can have a lot of legislation, but 00:02:07.202 --> 00:02:10.368 it could be useless if it's not applied. 00:02:10.368 --> 00:02:13.452 Logically speaking, governments will not care about 00:02:13.452 --> 00:02:18.183 disabled people and help those disabled people 00:02:18.183 --> 00:02:23.202 unless it's a matter of culture... a matter of priorities. 00:02:23.202 --> 00:02:28.601 If people, if countries, don't have weapons there will 00:02:28.601 --> 00:02:29.469 be no wars. 00:02:29.469 --> 00:02:34.267 That's my own personal point of view. 00:02:37.875 --> 00:02:39.679 And, unfortunately, nobody tackles this issue 00:02:39.679 --> 00:02:46.063 whether here at the Conference of Disabilities, or any 00:02:46.063 --> 00:02:49.462 conference about disabilities, you don't tackle the issue 00:02:49.462 --> 00:02:53.378 of disabled people due to wars. 00:02:54.240 --> 00:02:58.631 And they don't connect between wars and weapons 00:02:58.631 --> 00:03:03.596 and, at the same time, you do not connect between 00:03:03.596 --> 00:03:07.012 weapons and business 00:03:07.828 --> 00:03:10.949 and how it creates weapons 00:03:10.949 --> 00:03:12.833 internationally and locally. 00:03:19.772 --> 00:03:22.306 Chile signed it and ratified the convention in 00:03:22.306 --> 00:03:26.440 2008; and, since that time, we start working in 00:03:26.440 --> 00:03:32.272 adapt... all our law... to accomplish the convention. 00:03:32.272 --> 00:03:36.408 So, that's why in 2010, we issue a new law 00:03:37.746 --> 00:03:39.578 for equal opportunities and inclusion of people 00:03:39.578 --> 00:03:40.796 with disability. 00:03:40.796 --> 00:03:46.312 And that law, the National Service for Disabled People, was created. 00:03:46.312 --> 00:03:48.613 So, the service I am in charge of 00:03:48.613 --> 00:03:51.495 we decided, as government, to start working in the 00:03:51.495 --> 00:03:52.412 public sector. 00:03:52.412 --> 00:03:56.445 We are working for a couple of big study to know 00:03:56.445 --> 00:03:59.847 how many people with disability are today employed in 00:03:59.847 --> 00:04:03.029 the government and what the condition is 00:04:03.029 --> 00:04:05.021 because, many times in my country, people doesn't 00:04:05.267 --> 00:04:09.675 want to say that they have disability because they feel like 00:04:09.675 --> 00:04:11.291 they're going to be discriminated. 00:04:11.291 --> 00:04:14.342 So, they're are a lot of people that maybe they are 00:04:14.342 --> 00:04:18.625 working for so long in different institution, but 00:04:18.625 --> 00:04:20.642 we don't know they have disability. 00:04:20.642 --> 00:04:22.509 And that means that, probably, they needs some 00:04:22.509 --> 00:04:26.991 special (Chet: off - camera, "accommodation") 00:04:26.991 --> 00:04:27.708 Yeah. 00:04:27.708 --> 00:04:29.074 And we didn't do it because we don't know. 00:04:29.074 --> 00:04:31.642 And now we are doing this study and we're going 00:04:31.642 --> 00:04:34.225 to finish in January. 00:04:34.225 --> 00:04:37.725 We'll see how the government and the whole country 00:04:37.725 --> 00:04:40.991 how many people are working, and then we're going 00:04:40.991 --> 00:04:47.809 to get our own data base information, 00:04:47.809 --> 00:04:50.541 and from that, we're going to put ourselves 00:04:50.541 --> 00:04:54.592 some difference scores... we're going to try to increase 00:04:54.592 --> 00:04:56.941 the number of people of disabilities working with us. 00:04:56.941 --> 00:05:00.425 And, with that, we want to show to the private sector 00:05:00.425 --> 00:05:02.625 how they can do the same. 00:05:09.287 --> 00:05:13.035 So, over the last 30 to 40 years, there's been a great 00:05:13.035 --> 00:05:16.151 wealth of experience that we've gain 00:05:16.151 --> 00:05:18.218 through our laws and through the strengthening 00:05:18.218 --> 00:05:20.252 of our civil society. 00:05:20.252 --> 00:05:21.584 These are very positive things 00:05:21.584 --> 00:05:25.384 that, when we travel abroad, or even when we're 00:05:25.384 --> 00:05:28.668 working with people in our communities in the United States 00:05:28.668 --> 00:05:31.951 who maybe immigrants from other countries where 00:05:31.951 --> 00:05:32.868 they didn't have Rights. 00:05:32.868 --> 00:05:36.585 It's important to help people understand 00:05:36.585 --> 00:05:40.467 why are legislation is important and how it can work. 00:05:40.467 --> 00:05:44.235 As I said, we have many people in the United States 00:05:44.235 --> 00:05:45.369 who come from other countries 00:05:45.369 --> 00:05:48.319 where the governments were very repressive 00:05:48.319 --> 00:05:51.369 and where families and disabled people 00:05:51.369 --> 00:05:55.935 and others never really understand what their rights are 00:05:55.935 --> 00:05:58.600 under our law now that they are living here. 00:05:58.600 --> 00:06:00.768 So, I think we have a lot of opportunities 00:06:00.768 --> 00:06:01.619 and I think it's really 00:06:01.619 --> 00:06:04.586 the responsibility of every body looking at this film 00:06:04.586 --> 00:06:06.334 online 00:06:06.334 --> 00:06:09.934 to really think about the important role the US can play 00:06:09.934 --> 00:06:14.452 in sharing our messages overseas, and what we can 00:06:14.452 --> 00:06:17.201 learn from others overseas, and how we can work 00:06:17.201 --> 00:06:18.985 with people within the United States 00:06:18.985 --> 00:06:21.834 to help advance their Rights also.