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Adaptech

Adaptech's mission is to provide sound empirical data to assist in decision making that ensures that new information technology and related policies, software and hardware reflect the needs and concerns of postsecondary students, faculty, and staff with disabilities; professors who teach students with disabilities; and campus based professionals who provide disability related technology and other supports.

Adaptive Technology Resource Centre

University of Toronto

The Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto advances information technology that is accessible to all; through research, development, education, proactive design consultation and direct service. The ATRC works directly with information technology manufacturers and developers to influence the early design stages of tomorrow's computer based technology. The ATRC uses a user-centred design approach to model and create solutions that are commercially feasible, operationally effective, and universally accessible.

Accessible Media Inc. (Voiceprint/TACtv)

The National Broadcast Reading Service is the result of a movement that began back in the 1980s, when a pioneering group of people with disabilities put the following question to governments:

How could millions of vision- and print-restricted Canadians get independent access to the published news and information they need to help them make the basic decisions of everyday life — and to help them fulfill their rights and responsibilities as citizens?

As a result, VoicePrint was created. And as the CRTC stated then, "the establishment of viable audio reading services.[was] not only in the public interest but a matter of national importance."

In December 90, VoicePrint Canada went on the air. Its job then as it is today: to broadcast full-text readings of current articles from leading publications to all Canadians, but particularly the millions who can't independently access printed materials due to, for example, illiteracy, blindness, vision restriction, physical or learning disability or just getting older. Also included in the audience: new Canadians who use the service to help them learn English.

Newspapers. Magazines. Read To You

Where To Find Accessible Media Inc. (Voiceprint/TACtv)

ON CABLE: the secondary audio program (S.A.P.) of CBC Newsworld

ON SATELLITE: Star Choice (ch. 825), ExpressVu (ch. 49 & 967), Look TV (ch.400)

Health Technology Exchange

The Health Technology Exchange (HTX) is a resource and catalyst for accelerating the growth of Ontario's innovative medical and assistive technologies industry. HTX's core business is to facilitate research and development that leads to the creation of innovative products and enhanced capacity and capability for innovation; accelerate commercialization by facilitating the creation and advancement of companies; and leverage export capacity by enhancing and expediting the capacity of companies to reach global markets.

Neil Squire Society

The Neil Squire Society is a Canadian national non-profit organization committed to providing education, technology and career development for people with physical disabilities. Over the years, the Society has developed innovative programs and services and some of the world's leading edge assistive technology for people with physical disabilities.

The focus of the Neil Squire Society R&D Group is to research and create devices, technologies and products that facilitate an improved quality of life for people with disabilities, older adults, and people recovering from illnesses or injury.

SCI Pilot

"The Spinal Cord Injury Peer Information Library on Technology" is an information site focusing on people's experiences getting and using assistive devices. It offers insights on AT from people with spinal cord injuries from across North America. The opinions are those of the participants.

Tetra Society of North America

Tetra matches skilled technicians, designers and engineers with disabled people seeking to gain as much independence as possible in a range of areas such as self-care, school, work, and leisure. These professionals volunteer their time to work one-on-one with the disabled client, often producing a number of simple devices that aid many individuals who have special, one-off needs that are created by the uniqueness of their environments and their own disabilities. We are unique in our approach to overcoming these specialized barriers because we focus specifically on technology to improve quality of life.

Accessible Media Inc. (Voiceprint/TACtv)

The National Broadcast Reading Service is the result of a movement that began back in the 1980s, when a pioneering group of people with disabilities put the following question to governments:

How could millions of vision- and print-restricted Canadians get independent access to the published news and information they need to help them make the basic decisions of everyday life — and to help them fulfill their rights and responsibilities as citizens?

As a result, VoicePrint was created. And as the CRTC stated then, "the establishment of viable audio reading services.[was] not only in the public interest but a matter of national importance."

In December 90, VoicePrint Canada went on the air. Its job then as it is today: to broadcast full-text readings of current articles from leading publications to all Canadians, but particularly the millions who can't independently access printed materials due to, for example, illiteracy, blindness, vision restriction, physical or learning disability or just getting older. Also included in the audience: new Canadians who use the service to help them learn English.

Newspapers. Magazines. Read To You

Where To Find Accessible Media Inc. (Voiceprint/TACtv)

ON CABLE: the secondary audio program (S.A.P.) of CBC Newsworld

ON SATELLITE: Star Choice (ch. 825), ExpressVu (ch. 49 & 967), Look TV (ch.400)