The City of Toronto YouTube channel presents the local city government interactions with residents, visitors and businesses. The City of Toronto’s first-ever Accessibility Forum, as part of National AccessAbility Week, is designed for directors, managers and supervisors. The Forum will focus on de-mystifying the AODA, implementing culture change, and sharing best practices for embedding accessibility…
Keynote: The Business Value of Accessibility, with David Best This forum will explore greater opportunities to support the alignment and delivery of City services. An opportunity for IT senior leaders and subject matter experts for a half-day session that will explore greater opportunities to drive the delivery of a digital government and excellence in IT…
At Elevate, we will showcase the people, projects and stories that demonstrate how we can continue to build a more inclusive city together. We will question the status quo and identify ways we can modernize public life. Join us to learn how you can be part of the important change happening in cities and advocate…
As a Inclusive Media and Design partner, I will be speaking on the Digital Divide and The Dark Matter. Technology, as we are frequently being reminded, holds great promise, and a dark side. Automated tools for assessing website accessibility, for example, can be useful up to an extent – equivalent to a small army of…
Join me at the 26th annual AEBC AGM – Our Journey, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, April 27-29, 2018 The conference will be held at the Metrotown Hilton in Burnaby, BC. For 25 years the AEBC has played a critical role in targeting its advocacy efforts to change the lives of Canadians who are blind, deaf-blind,…
Robin Simmons, The Centre for Independent Living in Toronto (CILT), April 26, 2018 Non-partisan community partners invite persons with disabilities, their friends and families and the public to the Province-Wide Debate on Accessibility and Disability Issues. Representatives of Ontario’s political parties will be fielding questions about housing, employment, poverty reduction strategies, Accessibility for Ontarians with…
Update: Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) Join me at the 26th annual AEBC AGM – Our Journey, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, April 27-29, 2018. The conference will be held at the Metrotown Hilton in Burnaby, BC. For 25 years the AEBC has played a critical role in targeting its advocacy efforts to change…
Update: Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) Although most organizations want to do the right thing, each has a unique culture and business leaders that understand the effect of global trends will take the time to shape enterprise cultural values. Is the business case, of your organization, for disability based on legal compliance or…
Join me at the Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit in Toronto, February 9 and 10, 2018 This event is sponsored by the Ontario Public Policy Forum and the Government of Ontario. The Ontario Digital Inclusion Summit aims to find, understand and fix the gaps that keep some citizens from accessing and benefiting from the digital world….
Update: Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) I have just returned from the three day inaugural FWD50 Canada’s Digital Government conference, and would like to share my experience with you. I was invited to speak at the FWD50 Conference, on the growing digital communications gaps for blind Canadians. Earlier this year the Treasury Board…
