implementation of the Disability Discrimination Act. The results showed that the right of
persons with visual impairment to access information on the election was considerably
limited due to the unavailability of Braille campaign bulletins and restrictions on the
number of pages of Braille campaign bulletins.
Accordingly, the Commission submitted its opinion to the Speaker of the National
Assembly and the Chairperson of the National Election Commission that the Article 65 of
the Public Official Election Act, which stipulates the production of Braille campaign
bulletins as optional and limits the number of pages of Braille campaign bulletins within
the number of pages of 'book-form campaign bulletins (including 'leaflet-form')', should be
revised reasonably by obligating the production of Braille campaign bulletins
simultaneously with the production of book-form campaign bulletins to ensure equal
accessibility to persons with visual impairment.
28) Opinion on the Enactment of the Act on Personal Assistance Service for
Persons with Disabilities and Support for Activities of Persons with Disabilities
Upon receiving complaints submitted by persons with disabilities that independent
living of persons with severe disabilities is not guaranteed in practice due to several
limitations of the personal assistance service for persons with disabilities, the Commission
reviewed ways to improve the current "Personal Assistance Service for Persons with
Disabilities" and a bill of enactment of the Act on the Personal Assistance Service for
Persons with Disabilities submitted by the government to the National Assembly in
November 2010.
After the review, the Commission concluded that the current personal assistance service
for persons with disabilities and relevant clauses in the enactment bill of the Act on
Support for Activities of Persons with Disabilities need to be improved to take into account
types and the degrees of disability when selecting recipients of the personal assistance
service and to increase the duration of service use to practically ensure independent living
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