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Interview with Yazmine Laroche. ex-Deputy Minister of Public Service Accessibility in Canada.

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How can we make public services more inclusive for citizens with disabilities? Before recently retiring, Yazmine Laroche was Canada’s first Deputy Minister of Public Service Accessibility. In this role, she was responsible for overseeing the efforts of the Canadian public service to meet the requirements of the Accessible Canada Act. A career public servant with … Read more

I believe there’s enough work for everybody; there is plenty of work to bring disability toward an equitable place in society.

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Disability Rights Advocates as President/CEO in March 2021 after having spent six years as SVP, Head of Disability and Accessibility Strategy for Wells Fargo. While with Wells Fargo, Kathy helped to weave disability into the overall diversity agenda to expand the bank’s capabilities and programs to better serve both employees and customers with disabilities.

Google Assistant now more accessible for people with disabilities

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For International Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month, Google has brought Assistant to US company Tobii Dynavox’s applications and services. New Delhi:  Google has brought new updates to its Assistant that will help people with disabilities gain more independence in controlling smart devices and appliances around their homes. Source: Google Assistant now more accessible … Read more

Graphic designers, like grotesque typefaces, but they are not great for accessibility.

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“I think designers graphic designers, really like grotesque typefaces. They have a modern flavour, and that’s probably borne out of the corporate identities, and science fiction films and road signage and things people see in the world and feel like systemise and neutral. Designers go towards that because it feels like a safe bet and … Read more

In Their Own Words: How The Americans With Disabilities Act Changed People’s Lives

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Judy Heumann I was born in 1947. And in 1949, there was another polio epidemic and I had polio. When I was 5 years old, my mother took me to school to register me. And that was the first time that I think they really understood that having a disability meant not being equal, because … Read more

There’s a lot of ignorance regarding people with disabilities.

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This ignorance, this lack of information promotes negative stereotypes. Interview with Lorena Julio, human rights advocate and Co-Founder of Comparlante. Hosted by Antonio Santos, Debra Ruh and Neil Milliken. Lorena Julio is a human rights advocate with a Master in Compared Public Policies and a degree in Social Communication. She worked for more than 14 years in … Read more