David Onley, Mayo Moran and Charles Beer, The Toronto Star, September 15, 2020 The past six months have been among the most challenging in our history. Over the past decade each of us was asked to carry out the first legislated reviews of Ontario’s groundbreaking Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). During the course…
Logan Turner, CBC News, August 31, 2020 Petition calls on government to require braille or tactile symbols on consumer product warning labels. Jo-Hannah Atchison of Kenora, Ont. has inspired a House of Commons petition calling on the government to require Braille or tactile symbols on consumer product warning labels. Samantha Atchison of Kenora, Ont. remembers…
Join me at the AlphaKOR AODA Communications Standards Workshop, May 7, 2020 AlphaKOR helps businesses Increase Profits, Decrease Expenses, and Stay Secure using cutting edge technology and digital marketing solutions. At this workshop I will present practical methods to achieve AODA compliance for online communications. Learn about Stakeholder roles and project processes in designing for…
Mythili Sampathkumar, Digital Trends, March 27, 2020 As universities and schools try to quickly transition learning from physical classrooms to online ones, disabled students have been (and will continue to be) disproportionately affected. The rapid migration to virtual classes has forced disabled students into using websites and apps that were never designed to accommodate them….
Join me on a journey of Accessibility 101, November 28, 2019 Building a business today means designing for the future. Come learn about the basics of universal design for a competitive edge in the expanding digital economy. A lack of societal incentives for the increased inclusion of those with disabilities aggravates the digital disability divide….
Jason McKee, Wired Opinion, November 21, 2019 Beyond fair and equal treatment, what is also at stake with web accessibility is the future of our advancing global civilization. The digital innovations we enjoy today were brought about in large part by a few unique individuals blessed with brilliant minds and tenacity. As it happens, some…
Chris Thompson, Windsor Star, November 5, 2019 Accessibility advocate David Lepofsky came to Essex to promote a Twitter campaign aimed at affecting change by identifying barriers to mobility for the disabled. A prominent champion of accessibility and the rights of persons with disabilities, spoke at an event hosted by the Essex County Accessibility Advisory Committee…
John Brownlee, Modus, September 4, 2019 Designing solutions for people with disabilities offers a peephole into the future Very few people think that those of us who are blind should be exiled from the web altogether, or that people with hearing loss shouldn’t have iPhones. That’s as it should be. But all too often, the…
Kalev Leetaru, Contributor, Forbes, July 6, 2019 Silicon Valley has become obsessed with addressing AI bias. As deep learning algorithms have graduated from the academic research lab into the real world, there has become a growing awareness of the implications of their innate biases as their limited Western training data has collided spectacularly with a…
Carleton Newsroom, June 26, 2019 Building on its reputation as Canada’s most accessible university, Carleton University is launching the Canadian Accessibility Network, the first entity of its kind in the country. The announcement follows the historic passage of the federal government’s Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act. The bill sets groundbreaking accessibility standards for the…
