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.
It’s hard to watch your mother struggle. It’s even hard to write about.
The idea of making television for people who are blind or partially sighted is often met with a genuinely unassuming question from people who are unfamiliar with the accessibility world: How?
People with disabilities form the world’s largest minority group (over one billion according to the World Health Organization).
After our long (and cold!) Canadian winters, summer is all about soaking up as much fresh air and sunshine as possible.
At this year’s Gathering Our Voices Aboriginal Youth Conference, RHF Ambassador Trent Seymour spoke to the power of perseverance.
Disabilities can happen to anyone at any time. Whether due to an accident or injury, medical condition or illness, we can all face challenges to our mobility, hearing, or vision.
It’s time for our quarterly reading list! Below is a curated list of articles on disability.
Barriers in the built environment like stairs, manual doors, or narrow doorways are all common obstacles that stop people with disabilities, or aging seniors, from accessing workplaces.
