This year, the theme for National AccessAbility Week is “Disability Inclusion: From Possibilities to Practice”. Technology is evolving faster than ever before and ensuring product quality is a crucial aspect of product design and development. …

When I tried on my first set of myo-electric arms, I was excited, anxious and a little bit scared. Through The War Amps Child Amputee Program (CHAMP), I grew up with other amputees all around me; so, I was used to seeing a wide variety of prosthetic limbs and assistive…

When I was much younger, doctors told me I couldn’t have prosthetics because I had hands and they had never seen someone like me wear prosthetics. So, with some help from my good friends at the War Amps, I did some research and found a picture of two identical twins…

Speaking, writing and reading are integral to my everyday life. If you haven’t guessed by now, to say I read a lot is probably an understatement. Having grown up in a small town near Stratford, Ontario, Canada, I learned from a very young age that language is a powerful, powerful…

“Disability is a mismatched interaction between the features of a person’s body and the features of the environment in which they live.” — World Health Organization, 2011 World Report on Disability A very smart man named Cliff Chadderton once told me that “the Computer will be the great equalizer”. I…

”In visual perception, a colour is almost never seen as it really is […] This fact makes colour the most relative medium in art.” — Joseph Alberts, Interaction of Color, 1963 - Remember the dress from 5 or 6 years ago… you know the one.. …

“What do I do if I say or do the wrong thing?” This is the first question I almost always get asked when talking to anyone about ableism or disability. Here’s my open and honest thoughts. We have to start by getting comfortable with having uncomfortable conversations. …

I’m a little late in posting this. However, in celebration of #GAAD2020, and the upcoming National Accessibility Week (NAAW), Daniel Dafoe and I thought it would be a great idea to reflect back on the last year, and give you some tips on how to run an inclusive guild. Back…

“Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones.“ — Herbert Simon — A few years ago, when I joined the digital design team at RBC, I was introduced to this quote by Herbert Simon, “Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at…