Celebrating Braille as part of Blindness Awareness Month
October 31, 2023
October is Blindness Awareness Month, a time dedicated to raise awareness of the issues impacting people living with sight loss, to recognize Braille as a fundamental form of written communication...
Living with an invisible disease: Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
October 30, 2023
Lars is a five-year-old boy who loves superheroes, AC/DC, and looks at life with a happy, glass half-full attitude.He also happens to have a rare condition affecting the cilia that line many parts of...
Trick-or-Treat: Tips to Creating an Accessible Halloween
October 24, 2023
Each year at the end of October, trick-or-treaters take to the neighborhood streets to fill their bellies with treats. Halloween is often a time that children look forward to, planning their costumes...
Getting Out Safely: Enhancing Built Environments for Safe Evacuation
October 19, 2023
Emergencies can happen at any time in any place. A part of being prepared for the worst is ensuring every individual can evacuate quickly and safely.Creating a space that is safe begins with ensuring...
Difference Maker of the Year, Caden Teneycke raises awareness about accessibility and inclusion
October 12, 2023
“A day in the life of an eighteen-year-old and three and a half feet tall.”This is how Caden Teneycke opens most of his short form social videos. With a TikTok following of over 800,000, Caden has...
From Courts to Causes: Introducing RHFSP’s Team Members
October 10, 2023
This is a story about two athletes, each from different backgrounds and pursuing different sports. Despite their separate journeys in athletics, destiny led them not as opponents on the courts but as...
World Teachers’ Day 2023: Celebrating educators who inspire inclusion and accessibility
October 5, 2023
Today is World Teachers’ Day! To celebrate, we want to thank all the teachers who put in an incredible effort year-round to engage youth.October 5th is recognized annually by UNESCO to “commemorate...
Books to Fall in Love With – Autumn 2023 Reading List
September 29, 2023
Is there any better time to pile up the bedside table with books than fall? There is no shortage of books to escape into with the approach of the dreary weather. The following titles – some new and...
The Accessibility Era
September 21, 2023
If Taylor Swift were an economy, she’d be bigger than the collective force of 50 countries, quipped one researcher. The FBI made a Taylor Swift pun in July. Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put...