The TechWell STARCANADA Conference 2016 Being held the week of October 23-28, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency hotel, 370 King Street West, Toronto, Ontario. Come learn why accessibility is now becoming a valued, integral part of the design process and much different from usability of twenty years ago. Accessibility Standards and Testing Techniques: Be Inclusive…
TONY CALDWELL, Calgary Herald, March 24, 2016 The federal budget unveiled this week includes a promise to eliminate barriers for Canadians living with disabilities by introducing a national disabilities act, a document advocates have long said is needed.
Toronto CNW NewsWire, September 24, 2015 The leaders of Canada’s largest disability organizations serving upwards of four million Canadians with disabilities are urging government leaders, influencers and the public to support a new non-partisan campaign to introduce federal legislation to ensure accessibility, inclusion and equal opportunity for Canadians with disabilities, and to fulfill Canada’s commitments…
Stephen Pate, Oye Times, September 2, 2015 In his February 2007 speech, Prime Minister Harper promised, along with fiscal controls and tough on crime policies, We will also move forward with new legislation, the Canadians with Disabilities Act. Where is the Canadians with Disabilities Act? Where is the government body to enforce fairness for the…
Christopher Reynolds Toronto Star, August 14, 2015 A blind computer software engineer from Toronto is giving eyes to those who can’t see. David Best, a former IBM web developer, has just helped usher in the first pilot system in Canada created specifically to help visually impaired people – nearly 200,000 in Ontario alone – navigate…
David Pettinicchio, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Toronto, The Globe and Mail, July 28, 2015 Experts continue to point to the lack of federal resources allocated to the Canadian Human Rights Commission. And, just last year, The Globe and Mail reported on the failure of the Canadian government to monitor compliance…
Julie Ireton, CBC News, July 2, 2015 Federal government could face legal battle over inaccessible, internal websites says Toronto lawyer. CBC News has spoken with public servants who are seeking legal advice for what they call a clear violation of their charter and human rights. While the employees did not want to speak publicly about…
Christina Stevens, Senior Reporter Global News, June 19, 2015 The official Toronto 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games app is not accessible to those who are visually impaired, according to advocates for people with disabilities. They said it wouldn’t have been difficult to implement the helpful feature directly into the design phase of the Toronto 2015…
Barbara Turnbull, Toronto Star, September 16, 2014 With the launch of Canadian Business SenseAbility, an organization that will train companies how to hire disabled employees, we look at the worker who inspired the movement.
Mary Ellen Gabias, The Braille Monitor, July 30, 2014 Recently I had the pleasure of traveling to Canada to attend the convention of the Canadian Federation of the Blind. Unlike America, where government is involved in the rehabilitation of the blind at the state and federal level, English Canada has traditionally relied on a charity,…
