Windows allow sunlight to come in and moments of standing, pondering the rain drumming the ground outside. Windows exist everywhere, and we accept the way designers have innovated them. But should we? I’m not talking about the science of keeping the indoors comfortable and the weather outside; I’m talking about how we open and close…
Tag: Accessibility
Individual Climate Action
As an individual, climate action begins in the home. Some have no control over what they can do in their homes, but many of us do. I figured I was the former until my gas furnace began dying and a neighbour brought up the possibility of replacing it with a heat pump. Hmmm. Was that…
Medicine Must Collaborate to End the Pandemic
The siloed practice of medicine has lead to a terrible pandemic response. The Swiss Cheese model of preventing COVID-19 transmission demonstrates the power of whole-picture thinking.
Accessibility at the Opera
A friend and former vision mate worked with the choreographer to rehearse the dancers in the Canadian Opera Company’s production of Dvořák’s opera Rusalka and offered me two seats for the dress rehearsal. One tiny problem, well, two. I had no one to go with to help me to my seat. And once I found…
talk talk talk Blog Looking Snazzy and Modern
talk talk talk — my original blog — has been looking sad and dated for way too long. I put updating it in my endless ToDo list. Publishing Concussion Is Brain Injury: Treating the Neurons and Me moved it from being written in some task app into my head, needling me regularly until finally Christmas…
I Support AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on Barriers to Health Care in Ontario
I wrote the government at aoda.input@ontario.ca the following email to support AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on Health Care Accessibility Barriers. Join me and email them to; just one sentence to say you support the Brief is all that needed. Read more on the Alliance’s website. I support AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on Health Care Accessibility…
Join Us to Protest for TTC Accessibility for All
Accessibility of all kinds is pitiful on Toronto’s TTC. Wednesday, August 31, 2016 at 4:00pm Please join us at Yonge and Bloor To protest this blatant injustice towards our most vulnerable citizens. When you protest the TTC’s abysmal treatment of the disabled, we all win! D!ONNE Renée is the organizer behind this event. If you…
Take the TTC Survey Till February 11, Speak Up for Accessibility
The TTC is running a survey purportedly on service standards yet with nary a word on accessibility and skewed towards not building subways. Service includes accessibility. Service includes how easy it is to use the system. Yet the survey doesn’t include one question related to cognitive, physical, or mental accessibility, other than pitting the number…
Partnering Up to Attend TTC Public Forum on Accessible Transit in Toronto
Kerry, a Board member of BIST (Brain Injury Society of Toronto), and I attended the TTC Public Forum on Accessible Transit back on 16 September 2015. I had spoken to one of the BIST Board members a few months previously about TTC accessibility, and he’d suggested I attend accessibility meetings. I told him this was…