Has Ontario created an artificial environment of inclusion? In 2005 the Ontario legislature passed into law the Accessibility For Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), a bold move toward global leadership, but 20 years later the state of disability wellbeing is in a crisis according to the 2023 government AODA review. Despite the implementation of Diversity,…
WEtech Innovation Alchemy WEtech Alliance: A podcast dedicated to exploring the magic, mess, and mastery of innovation. Accessible By Design: Making Inclusion Your Competitive Advantage
Workforce Windsor-Essex recently released a report outlining The State of Tech in Windsor-Essex. The report addresses the tech brain drain that has led to the relocation of local tech talent. The tech sector provides essential support to the region, but who is telling the narrative. The Big Picture It is estimated that about 98% of…
The Challenge For Small Business The digital age of amazing innovations and human right challenges has imposed unprecedented pressures upon organizations and has disrupted traditional business processes. The struggle for competitive advantage has forced organizations to become more flexible, adaptable and value driven. This has had a huge impact on the health of Canadian workers,…
Startup Canada Podcast, EPISODE 406 The digital divide has created a wider gap between leadership and management. It has created a lot of problems for people with disabilities. Startup Canada Podcast: Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage with David Best
Read on LinkedIN October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Our economic growth depends upon entrepreneurs; So, give people with a disability an opportunity. Employment programs need to support individuals with a disability, rather than the large company employer, and SMEs need to tap into the disability talent pool. Small businesses have been called the…
Joe Orozco, blog There’s never been a better time to be blind, or so I’ve heard. And I have to ask: How low have we dropped the bar? I was recently chatting with a friend. I forget exactly how the subject came up, but we found ourselves discussing blind people and entry level jobs. I…
Gordon Dingle, Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians Prior to 1941 numerous independent associations of the blind existed across local Canadian communities. The Manitoba League of the Blind (Winnipeg), however, called for meetings between 1941 and 1943 with the London Association of the Blind of Ontario and other interested parties. These same groups met again…
Update: Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) If we are to meet the Ontario goal of a barrier-free society by 2025, the AODA standards must prohibit the creation of any new barriers immediately. According to the OHRC report the proposed Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR) fails to identify basic human rights principles to guide its…
The measurement of career success depends upon the values used, and what it is being compared to. Recent reports show that there is a continually high rate of unemployment within the Canadian disability population, but the reasons for this are often misunderstood, and the expectations for career success are often misrepresented. Discrimination in the workplace,…
