Triple Vision Pandora Project

Universal Banter. How Does Assistive Technology Fit with the Idea of Universal Design?
In this week's episode the Triple Vision Team, with guest host Karoline Bourdeau, joins forces with the AT Banter podcast team to discuss the interplay of assistive technology with mainstream technology towards a horizon of universal design. Join the Triple vision team, along with Steve Barclay, Ryan Fleury, and Rob Mineault of Canadian Assistive Technologies Ltd. to discuss the past, present and future of assistive technologies in Canada, and around the world.
Imagine, for example, somebody who lives a good majority of their life in a powered wheelchair with very limited physical access. We can, through various technologies that we handle, we can connect somebody to a computer right down to a single muscle if necessary, or even eye gaze technology if necessary. There is an interplay that happens in cases like that between occupational and physical therapists to determine exactly how a person can be positioned, how a person can do movement that is meaningful for their access. I just can't see there being a one solution for everybody given that because they do get so very specific.
Resources:
AT Banter Podcast: Advocating for Inclusivity, Diversity and better Accessibility for the world we live in
Make A Difference - Described Video, By Ryan Fleury on White Cane Records



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In this latest podcast, the Triple Vision team reimagines what inclusive communications could look like by speaking with Denis Boudreau, owner of the firm Inklusive communications. Denis is a writer and speaker in the area of inclusive communications. In this podcast he describes the importance of businesses and individuals including a diversity of recipients in their communications, and where they have fallen down, or have had little exposure to this area. He also discusses many tips for individuals an organizations for improving their communications practices.
Most colleges still don't have accessibility baked into their programs. They might have someone who speaks about it, tangentially, as part of a course, but its not embedded as part of anything we do. so, in most cases when accessibility is being taught to them its this extra course that they might take sitting in parallel with everything else, while in reality we have known for a long time that they only way accessibility can be successful is if its embedded into what you are doing.
Resources:
Denis Boudreau, Inklusiv Communication
Founder & Chief Inclusion Officer, Trainer, Speaker and author
Website: https://inklusiv.ca
Book: The Inclusive Speaker, available on Amazon
Through this book, author Denis Boudreau, a 22+ year web accessibility and digital equality veteran, shares his perspectives on systemic exclusion as being one of the greatest communication threats to face businesses today, and how brands can be more successful, simply by doing the right thing by their audience and empowering them to truly connect.



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Beyond Average: What Could the World of Technology Look Like If It Was Designed Differently?
In podcast 38 the Triple Vision team talks with Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre at Ontario's OCAD University. As Triple Vision sets out to re-imagine what inclusively designed technology systems and apps could look like, Jutta brings her perspective on how designing for the so-called difficult 20% actually promotes innovation and creativity so that products can work for everyone.
one of the first things that we examine and question is this notion of average. This goes back to an academic in the 1800's called Katalay who started the field of demographics. He talked about human averages, and that the average human was the ideal to achieve. But there are other people who have shown that there is, in fact, no average human and if we design for the average human then we are creating a greater and greater disparity.
Resources:
QUANTIZATION: A podcast on inclusion.
Podcast 3 part series: Jutta and Bianca series on housing and homelessness, we ask them to look at the future and what technology could offer.
YouTube: The Disappearing Computer.
In this exclusive preview of groundbreaking, unreleased technology, former Apple designer and Humane cofounder Imran Chaudhri envisions a future where AI enables our devices to "disappear". He gives a sneak peek of his company's new product, shown for the first time ever on the TED stage, and explains how it could change the way we interact with tech and the world around us. Witness a stunning vision of the next leap in device design.
Imran Chaudhri TED Talk



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In episode 37 the triple vision team talks with Kaye Leslie to re-imagine what an accessible and universally designed health care system could look like. Kaye recently moved to small town Ontario and talks about her experiences navigating the health care system in Toronto as well as in her new town of Huntsville. The team asks her how health care could be re-imagined to meet the needs of all individuals in an accessible and universal way.

“When we talk about barriers, of course we know that that there are the physical and the practical, but then there is the attitudinal. That’s where I would love to see medical students who may graduate have a new approach to people with differences – end of story. That includes disability, you know, don’t make assumptions, treat everyone with respect and ask, 'How can I assist you’”.




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In this episode of Triple Vision, the team strikes out on its own, independent of Accessible Medi Inc. to continue to bring you the Triple Vision podcast. It reimagines what life could look like if blind, deafblind, and partially sighted Canadians had greater social participation in employment, education, technology, governance, and an accessible Canada with equal economic benefits.

“I think the challenge which service organizations have is, what is their role? Because currently they’re struggling to hang on to that old colonialism kind of role of providing services that really are no longer needed. So, what should service organizations be doing? With artificial intelligence coming down the pipe we have tremendous opportunities to gain a foothold, to gain more independence and integration into society."




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An Entrepreneurship round table discussion by the Triple Vision Team.

In this second in a two-part series on entrepreneurship, the Triple Vision team talks about their own paths towards entrepreneurship and self-employment. Each team member, Sharlyn, Hanna, David and Peter have all arrived at the same place, although each pursuing a different route to get there, and choosing entrepreneurship and self-employment for different reasons. When organizing this podcast team members were pleasantly surprised to discover that, when they talked about who else they knew who were entrepreneurs, each person could tell the story of their own entrepreneurial journey. “I think there’s a real need for younger people to understand what they are getting into when they become an entrepreneur. About 65% of our GDP is now small business. I think if we are going to come and achieve any desire or any level of accepting of inclusion, we need to start very early in education so that when people become entrepreneurs they can do it without all of this overhead of worry and frustration. There is so much misinformation out there that I find a lot of them are led down the garden path”.




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