Jan Ditchfield, Alliance for an Inclusive and Accessible Canada, August 3, 2017 The Alliance is proud to be hosting our pioneering conference, called What Should Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Include? Cutting-edge ideas from Experts from Around the World. Hosted by David Lepofsky, the event will be lived streamed on August 22nd, 2017 from 10:00…
Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) Inside, Season 3, Episode 16 AMI Inside travels to Guelph University for the 9th annual Accessibility Conference, one of the largest of its kind in Canada, featuring compelling sessions focused on the importance of achieving inclusion. BlindSquare demonstration by David Best.
Kevin Rollason, Winnipeg Free Press, June 8, 2017 David Lepofsky is in Winnipeg this week to speak during Manitoba Access Awareness Week. He spoke on Wednesday at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights about accessibility rights legislation. The world has been designed as if the only people living in it successfully are people without disabilities….
Join me at the University of Guelph accessibility conference Becoming a Catalyst for Inclusion, on May 29-31, 2017. As a member of the Inclusive And Media Design group, I will present on the topic Why Site Analysis and Remediation is a Feel Good Thing, in Rozanski Hall 101, Tuesday, May 30, 2017, 3:15-4:00PM. Learn about…
Greg O’Brien, Cartt.ca editor and publisher, December 14, 2016 Mohawk College Journalism’s pioneering new program teaching accessible content production to its aspiring journalists took another step on Tuesday when its initial group of second-year journalism students showed off their work to some members of the community. The course, which is mandatory in order to graduate…
Andrea Gordon, Toronto Star, December 5, 2016 Students in wheelchairs who can’t use playground equipment or open classroom doors. Children with impaired vision or dyslexia unable to read the Smartboard in class. Youth with autism who miss out on co-op placements because workplaces don’t accommodate their needs. These are just a few examples of obstacles…
HINA ALAM, Toronto Star Staff Reporter, December 2, 2016 Toronto lawyer David Lepofsky is highlighting Centennial College building’s accessibility problems. But that is not the complete picture. These accessibility issues are the symptoms of a bigger problem, Lepofsky says. The Centennial College building opened in late August of this year to accept student residents while…
Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information and NTIA Administrator, August 16, 2016 For the last 18 years, the United States has been working with the global Internet multistakeholder community to establish a stable and secure multistakeholder model of Internet governance that ensures that the private sector, not governments, takes the lead in…
Rob Ferguson, Queen’s Park Bureau, Toronto Star, August 8, 2016 Education Minister Mitzie Hunter, shown earlier this year, says the decision to keep schools for deaf and blind children open was made after several months of consultation. The move follows protests by worried parents last winter and spring and an outcry from opposition parties at…
Beit Issie, a non-profit special Consultant to the United Nations based in Israel, mission is to provide cutting-edge services to improve quality of life for people with disabilities, and to effect social change by breaking down the barriers preventing people with disabilities from full societal integration, assuring them the rights and opportunities for maximum growth…
