RESOURCE HUB
This searchable resource hub focuses on accessibility training, resources, funding, tip sheets, and guidebooks.
Dave Anderson- Village Works
This video (6:09) features Dave Anderson of Village Works, a small business based in Halifax’s north end. Dave shares how Village Works designed and created accessible office and studio spaces, and its impact on their...
Case Study: Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM)
Melissa Myers is the Accessibility Advisor for Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), Nova Scotia’s most populated municipality. Since the creation of this role in 2019, HRM has been at the forefront of integrating accessibility considerations into...
An Accessible Nova Scotia by 2030
On the very first episode of Accessibility Ally, your host Corrie Melanson sits down with guest, Paul Tingley. Paul is a Business ACCESS-Ability Officer with the Government of Nova Scotia, responsible for coordinating programs, and...
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
The Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is the leading source of free, expert, and confidential guidance on job accommodations and disability employment issues. Serving customers across the United States and around the world for more than...
Becoming an Accessibility Confident Employer
This blog outlines proactive approaches including universal design, accessible policies, and practices, and embedding accessibility considerations into projects and programs from the onset. These approaches work together with reactive ones like accommodation to create greater...
Laura Beth MacPherson – PTSD
This video (7:50) features Laura Beth MacPherson, a white woman with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Laura Beth shares the barriers she faces and the impacts when spaces and processes are accessible.
Kate Pepler- Tare Shop
This video (4:02) features Kate Pepler of the Tare Shop. Kate shares the Tare Shop’s approach to accessibility, and the practical ways they support customers and employees.
Accommodations in the Workplace
This episode we sit down with Ursula Mogensen who is a queer, non-binary human with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). They share their experiences with a late diagnosis of ADHD, the supports at work that...
A Case Study in Equitable Employment
It would be hard to find a more amazing, local example of an exceptional partnership for change in accessibility than that of 2 Crows Brewing and the Prescrott Group! In this episode we sit down...