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![Regulating the Digital Domain logo](/uploads/wip_rdd_colour_no-type.jpg)

[Cliquez pour voir](https://wecount.inclusivedesign.ca/rddn) la page en Français
Voir ce page en [français](https://wecount.inclusivedesign.ca/rddn)

## About the project

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### The Canadian Accessibility Network & Accessibility Institute

[The Canadian Accessibility Network](https://carleton.ca/accessibility-institute/can/) under the leadership of the Accessibility Institute at Carleton University is mandated to bring organizations together to facilitate partnerships in specific collaboration areas under each of the five overarching domains: Research, Design and Innovation, Education and Training, Policy, Employment and Community Engagement. \
**About Boris’s role with RtDD:** Contribute insights regarding motivations and challenges facing the accessibility field in Canada. Assist in obtaining input from accessibility professionals.



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### Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility

[Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility](https://www.wavefrontcentre.ca/), an institute of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, envisions a society where Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Hearing people can interact freely without communication barriers. Our mission is to serve Deaf and Hard of Hearing individuals, their families and the community by delivering innovative programs, products and solutions to achieve full communication accessibility. \
**About Christopher’s role with RtDD :** Recruit members who are Deaf and hard of hearing to participate in co-design. Help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback. Evaluate the accessibility of the research process for persons who are Deaf and hard of hearing. Review project outputs.



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### Inclusive Design for Employment Access / Institute for Work and Health, McMaster University

[Inclusive Design for Employment Access](http://www.vraie-idea.ca) (IDEA) is a social innovation laboratory focused on helping create stronger and more diverse labour markets that include persons with disabilities, through knowledge to practice. We develop evidence informed tools and resources through co-design with partners that help advance workplace capacity for recruitment, hiring, onboarding, retention, mentorship and promotion of persons with disabilities across the full range of employment opportunities. \
**About Emile’s role with Rtdd :** Contribute insights regarding policy, practice, compliance, and effective strategies as they relate to digital accessibility and employment of persons with disabilities.



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### Council of Canadians with Disabilities (CCD)

[CCD ](http://www.ccdonline.ca/en/)is a pan-Canadian organization of people with disabilities. CCD has worked to find solutions and innovative ways to support the full and equal citizenship of people with disabilities. CCD unites the voice of Canadians with disabilities to defend and extend the equality rights of persons with disabilities through public education, advocacy, research, litigation, and partnerships. \
**About Heather’s role with RtDD:** Support member organizations across Canada to recruit members with disabilities to participate in co-design. Assist in reaching out to Indigenous communities. Help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback. Provide insights regarding the need for capacity building within member organizations to participate in digital inclusion efforts. Recruit co-designers and review project outputs.



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### Black Deaf Canada (BDC)

BDC has a community-building focus where it aims to increase network of Black Deaf individuals across Canada to increase a visible representation. BDC commits to create and provide community-based, informative resources, strategies, and opportunities for Black Deaf Canadians (and those with additional disabilities). BDC’s mandate is to explore different ways of educating the hearing society about accessibilities, Deaf intra/intercultural experiences and contexts, so the society can better serve Deaf Black individuals, including Indigenous, and Peoples of Colour. \
**About Jenelle’s role with RtDD :** Recruit Black Deaf members to participate in co-design, help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback, recruit co-designers and review, and review project outputs.



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### Canadian Council of the Blind (CCB)

The [CCB](https://ccbnational.net/shaggy/) works to improve the quality of life for persons living with vision loss through awareness, peer mentoring, socializing, sports & recreation, advocacy, health promotion and illness prevention. CCB’s community-based model offer programs to assist those people living with vision loss, create awareness of vision issues to the public and government. Recently, the CCB has undertaken proactive programs such as mobile eye health and training for employment. The CCB partners with a number or local, provincial, national and international organizations. \
**About Jim’s role with RtDD:** Recruit members with vision loss to participate in co- design, help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback, recruit co-designers, and review project outputs.



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### Manitoba League of Persons with Disabilities (MLPD)

The[ MLPD](https://mlpd.mb.ca/) is a united voice of people with disabilities, and their supporters, that promotes equal rights, full participation in society, and facilitates positive change through advocacy and public education.

**About Joelle’s role with RtDD :** Recruit members with disabilities, especially in rural and remote areas, to participate in co-design. Help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback.


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### ARCH Disability Law Centre

[ARCH](https://archdisabilitylaw.ca/) Disability Law Centre is a specialty legal clinic that practices exclusively in disability rights law. ARCH is dedicated to defending and advancing the equality rights, entitlements, fundamental freedoms, and inclusion of persons with disabilities in Ontario.  \
**About Kerri’s role with RtDD:** Provide insights regarding legal challenges faced by persons with disabilities and the relative effectiveness of regulatory approaches. Assist in legal interpretation and determining viability of project co- design approaches.



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### L’Arche Canada

Across Canada and around the world, [L’Arche](https://www.larche.ca/) creates communities of friendship and belonging. In L’Arche, people with and without intellectual disabilities live, work, learn, and grow together. L’Arche demonstrates that when persons with intellectual disabilities take their place at the table, they contribute to a more just, compassionate, and vibrant world for all. \
**About Lori’s role with RtDD :** Recruit members with intellectual disabilities to participate in co-design, help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback, recruit co-designers, and review project outputs.



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### Canadian National Institute of the Blind Foundation

The Canadian National Institute of the Blind Foundation ([CNIB Foundation](https://www.cnib.ca/en?region=on)), a non-profit organization, delivers programs and advocacy that empower people impacted by blindness to live their dreams and tear down barriers to inclusion. \
**About Mahadeo’s role with RtDD:** Recruit members who are blind to participate in co- design, help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback, recruit co-designers, and review project outputs.



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### Institute for Research and Development on Inclusion and Society (IRIS)

Informed by the systemic exclusion that people with intellectual and other disabilities and marginalized groups face, [IRIS ](https://irisinstitute.ca/)works to seed and support transformative social development. Guided by principles of full inclusion and human rights, we conduct research to identify issues and policy options, foster social innovation to re-imagine inclusion, and strengthen capacity and leadership for transformative change. \
**About Michael’s role with Rtdd :** Provide insight and guidance regarding the effectiveness and challenges faced by organizations serving persons with intellectual disabilities.



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### Ross & McBride LLP

[Ross & McBride](https://www.rossmcbride.com/) lawyers have extensive experience in settling complex cases and assisting clients in resolving conflict. Ross & McBride provide input regarding human rights law and access to justice for persons with disabilities. \
**About Paula’s role with RtDD:** Assist in the environmental scan and assessment of compliance effectiveness of regulatory approaches.



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### IP Osgoode — Intellectual Property Law & Technology Program, Osgoode Hall Law School, York U

[IP Osgoode](https://www.iposgoode.ca/) at Osgoode Hall Law School is an independent and authoritative voice which explores legal governance issues at the intersection of intellectual property (IP) and technology. \
**About Pina’s role with RtDD :** Provide input regarding legislative design, innovative regulatory instruments, legal interpretation of possible approaches within the Accessible Canada Act.



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### Digital Governance Council / Digital Governance Standards Institute

The [Digital Governance Council](https://dgc-cgn.org/) (formerly the CIO Strategy Council) works through its members across the public and private sectors to strengthen trust in Canada’s digital economy by collaboratively identifying, prioritizing, and acting on digital governance opportunities and challenges.  \
The [Digital Governance Standards Institute](https://dgc-cgn.org/standards/), part of the Digital Governance Council, is an accredited standards development body. The Institute enables greater trust and confidence in Canada’s digital systems through developing technology governance standards collaboratively across a range of stakeholders. \
**About Shermineh’s role with RtDD :** Technical guidance for the process of standards development. Provide insights regarding motivations and challenges in complying to digital accessibility requirements by private and public sector organizations.



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### March of Dimes Canada

The vision of the [March of Dimes](https://www.marchofdimes.ca/en-ca/provinces/Pages/on.aspx) is to create a society inclusive of people with physical disabilities; the mission is to maximize the independence, personal empowerment, and community participation of people with physical disabilities. \
**About W. Francis’s role with RtDD:** Recruit members with physical disabilities to participate in co-design, help disseminate project drafts for review and feedback.



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