The Centre for Workplace Accessibility (CWA) invites you to participate in a series of online webinars to enhance your disability inclusion literacy. In recognition of the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, this series aims to raise awareness and promote inclusive practices in UBC workplaces.
In the week recognizing the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, join the Centre for Workplace Accessibility’s Leah Watson and Kelly McIntosh as they candidly discuss their experiences working together to create an accessible workplace environment for Leah, who is Hard of Hearing. Feeling accepted, included and supported are keys to workplace wellbeing. Join […]
In the week recognizing the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities, we invite you to take part in a workshop with Accessibility Consultant Karen Lai to shift our thinking about inclusion and accessibility. We need to be continually in conversation about it, rather than offer a set of prescribed set of guidelines of including […]
The Centre for Workplace Accessibility is thrilled to host a panel discussion on invisible disability in the workplace in recognition of the UN International Day for Persons with Disabilities (observed on December 3rd) and in collaboration with THRIVE month. Four UBC employee panelists with lived experience (Logan J. Smilges, Rochelle Mazar, Kathryn Douglas-Campbell and Electra […]
Dr. Jay Dolmage Dr. Jay Dolmage is a UBC alumnus and Professor and Head of the Department of English, University of Waterloo. He is a leading scholar in disability studies whose work […]
Drop in for a 30-minute lunch-and-learn session on SensusAccess, a new web-based document conversion tool available through the CWA. Open to all UBC students, staff, and faculty, this powerful and intuitive tool makes accessibility more immediate and achievable. Learn how to use the service to produce accessible formats such as audio, tagged PDF, eBook, and […]
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