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All-terrain wheelchair.

Top tips on maintaining your all-terrain wheelchair in winter

Muddy winter walks over rough and frozen ground can wreak havoc on your all-terrain wheelchair. Proper wheelchair maintenance is key to ensuring the mobility, performance and safety of your equipment.

Daniel O'Connor and Brad.

All Access Life

My name is Daniel O’Connor (Right of Picture) beside me is Bradley Heaven. Bradley was born with nonverbal spastic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, but he never lets it hold him back from living life to the fullest.

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Usability & Web Accessibility – Assistive Technology

People with certain disabilities use display and input technologies to access online resources. There are several software and hardware solutions that have been adopted, commonly referred to as assistive technologies.

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Usability & Web Accessibility – Navigation

In general, provide multiple ways to reach any page on a site. Doing so allows users to chose whatever way of finding pages is easiest for them. Users with low vision may find using search easier than navigating through a large menu. Users with cognitive impairments may prefer a table of contents or site map over clicking through many pages.

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Usability & Web Accessibility – Create Accessible E-mails with Yale Message

Simple steps to creating accessible emails with Yale University message.

HOW TO MAKE THE MOST OF ANDROID’S ACCESSIBILITY FEATURES

Accessibility features aren’t exactly the most well-known pieces of the modern smartphone puzzle. And yet, they might be the pieces with the greatest potential to make a meaningful impact on someone’s life.

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Usability & Web Accessibility – PDFs & Documents

Before distributing and remediating PDFs, determine whether a PDF is necessary. PDFs can be challenging to remediate for accessibility. Whenever possible, share content as a webpage and use PDFs sparingly.

Inclusive Design Principles.

Equivalent Experiences: Thinking Equivalently

If you’re looking for a more approachable resource for how to dig into what the WCAG covers, the Inclusive Design Principles would be a great place to start. The seven principles it describes all map back to WCAG success criterion.

The disability community benefits from having a Pride Month. Disability pride flag pictured. ILLUSTRATION: Ann Magil / Flickr

Disability Pride Month needs to happen in Canada

July is the month that we should celebrate us and also serve as a reminder that our history and joy deserve more than awareness.

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Semantic Structure: Regions, Headings, and Lists

The originators of HTML—particle physicists sharing documents—had no interest in fluffy visuals. They set out to create a World Wide Web of machine-readable pages to display in every system and browser, including those that spoke text to visually-impaired users.