Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage
Startup Canada Podcast, EPISODE 406, with David Best
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Remembering Onley’s Life and Advocacy for Accessibility, The Agenda TVO
The Agenda with Steve Paikin, host of TVO’s flagship current affairs program, February 3, 2023 The Honourable David C. Onley left a lasting impression on those he met as a friend, as an accessibility advocate, and as a former lieutenant-governor of Ontario. Ontario’s former lieutenant governor, David Onley, left the world at the age of…
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Revolutionary: Remembering John Boyer, a pioneer for the deaf and blind in computer science
Lucas Robinson, Wisconsin State Journal, January 24, 2023 Where the likes of Louis Braille and Abraham Nemeth made it possible for the blind to read and perform mathematics, John Boyer took it a step further. Boyer, a Madison resident who was pivotal in the development of STEM reading material for the blind, died on January…
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Passing grade on accessibility not good enough
Editorial, Winnipeg Free Press, January 18, 2023 Sometimes, a passing grade is considered a satisfactory result, the product of sufficient preparation and effort to allow for an outcome that qualifies as success even though it may have flirted with failure along the way. In other words, just enough to be good enough. When it comes…
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AT BANTER Pocast Presents the Triple Vision Team
This week it’s not only the biggest episode we’ve ever done, but one of the most important. We’re packing the Anti-Gloom Zoom Room full this week as Rob, Ryan, Lis, and Steve welcome the members of the Triple Vision Podcast team. Peter Field, Charlie Ayotte, Hanna Leavitt, and David Best – to talk about their…
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ALWL Sponsor Appreciation Night, The Windsor Club, June 9, 2022
A Life Worth Living Accessible Online Resource Centre launch Changing the Disability Narrative One Story at a Time through real life stories and inclusion best practices. The Business Accessibility Toolkit (BAT) is a business training course offering employers who do not have an onsite HR or Accessibility Trainer another option to meet their annual training…
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University of Guelph Open Education 13th Annual Accessibility Conference 2022
University of Guelph Open Education 13th Annual Accessibility Conference 2022 Session: What Businesses Should Learn from a Life Worth Living’s Accessible Website Journey A business’s decision to hire a website developer to meet AODA standards is complicated by the lack of knowledge and understanding of digital accessibility on the part of both parties. Through A…
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin’s Discussion of the Ontario Election’s Disability issues, with AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky
Ontario’s flagship public affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin, May 11, 2022 Tell Candidates that the Million-Strong Disability Vote Counts! It’s time for voters with disabilities and voters without disabilities to swing into action. We need your help to press the Ontario Conservative Party to answer our November 22, 2022 request for election commitments…
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The Triple Vision Podcast
From the AEBC’s Pandora Project comes a new podcast that aims to tell the history and stories of blind Canadians. Join co-hosts David Best and Peter Field as they speak to historians, community members and those who were there for the moments that shaped the lives of blind Canadians for generations. On Triple Vision you…
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Swimmer Becca Meyers is skipping Tokyo Paralympics because of covid rules
Dave Sheinin, The Washington Post, July 19, 2021 This deaf-blind Paralympian was told to navigate Tokyo alone. So she quit Team USA. “This has been very difficult for me,” Becca Meyers said of giving up on the Tokyo Paralympics. But “I need to say something to effect change, because this can’t go on any longer.”…