Welcome to the Rick Hansen Foundation blog! We post regularly on a range of topics and issues in the disability and accessibility community.
Explore past posts to read personal experiences of disability, tips for how to improve accessibility in your community, what you can do to be more inclusive, and more.
With 2021 promising to bring positive change and new beginnings, we sat down – virtually – with Rick Hansen Foundation CEO D
The latest updates on the programs at the Rick Hansen Foundation for Fall and Winter 2020.
We have certainly found ourselves in strange times recently. All of us have been completely disrupted by the momentum and devastating effects of COVID-19.
Rick Hansen Foundation Chief Executive Officer Doramy Ehling on three women in the disability and accessibility community who inspire her.
Canadians struggle every day to access spaces like schools, libraries, community centres, retail and office spaces because of physical barriers to accessibility.
Darby Lee Young was born with cerebral palsy and a disregard for the barriers she encounters today.
One of the most common misconceptions I encounter when discussing accessibility is ‘I’m already accessible, because my building meets code’.
With roughly 20% of the population currently reporting as having a significant disability and 1,000 people turning 65 every day in Canada, the inescapable truth is that, in the new millennium, it i
Thirty years ago, I was wheeling through the Canadian Prairies on the last leg of my Man In Motion World Tour.