RESOURCE HUB
This searchable resource hub focuses on accessibility training, resources, funding, tip sheets, and guidebooks.
Breagh MacLean- Learning Disabilities
This video (4:20) features Breagh MacLean, a white woman with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Breagh shares the barriers she faces and the impacts when spaces and processes are accessible.
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...
Engaging Persons with Disabilities webinar and workbook
This resource was created by the Nova Scotia Accessibility Directorate. The Engaging with Persons with Disabilities webinar and workbook will help to increase your confidence in how to meet with, work with, and talk with...
Access by Design
This episode features Dawn Stegen and Terri Lynn Almeda, to discuss how the many moving pieces of accessibility can work together to ensure an accessible future for our province. Dawn is the Executive Director of...
Scott Jones- Barriers and Impacts
This video (2:38) features Scott Jones, a queer, white man with a physical disability. Scott shares the barriers he faces and the impacts when spaces and processes are accessible.
Building an Inclusive Future: NSCC’s Approach to Accessibility
This blog shares how the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC) is taking a proactive and collaborative approach to foster accessibility.
Scott Jones- Social Model of Disability
This video (1:15) features Scott Jones, a queer, white man with a physical disability. Scott shares a definition of the social model of disability and how it differs from the medical model.
Erika Shea- New Dawn Culture and Autonomy
This video (5:35) features Erika Shea of New Dawn Enterprises
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...