Toronto must do better for people with disabilities

David Lepofsky, Toronto Star, Activist for reforms for the rights of people with disabilities, August 19, 2015
The ParaPan Am games had great potential to tear down stereotypes that hold back the 1.8 million Ontarians with disabilities, writes David Lepofsky. Yet poor marketing meant that half of the tickets never sold. Blind computer users like me faced obvious accessibility problems using the Toronto 2015 website and iPhone app. I couldn’t buy tickets using either. Until blasted in the media, the app’s link to the games’ accessibility features was ironically inaccessible. The ParaPan Am Games showed amazing ways that athletes with disabilities playports that others think impossible. They showed how people with disabilities can participate fully in school, work and play, if given a chance.