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Not Disabled Enough?

2026-11-0330:08

Losing your hearing is hard enough. Losing your hearing two weeks into new motherhood forces you to rebuild everything at once. We sit down with Tiffany Storrs, an actor, best-selling author, and award-winning advocate for hidden disabilities, to talk about what happens after sudden hearing loss, what people get wrong about deafness, and how she learned to live between two soundscapes with cochlear implants and the support she needs to stay safe and connected. We dig into Tiffany’s book “Ada...

Accessible Conferences Start Backstage

2026-10-2629:14

A conference can be “accessible” on paper and still feel stressful, chaotic, and exclusionary in the moments that matter most: when a speaker is nervous, the backstage team is overloaded, and the schedule starts slipping minute by minute. We dig into the missing layer of event accessibility that rarely gets discussed, the tools and practices that support speakers and production crews so the audience actually gets the full experience they came for. We sit down with Eyal Simko, founder of CueT...

Dignity Across Every Age

2026-10-1829:26

A treaty negotiated by 193 countries, approved on our guest’s birthday, and powerful enough to flip the global story of disability from “medical problem” to “human rights obligation” is not supposed to have a personal plot twist, but this one does. Ambassador Luis Gallegos joins us to unpack the CRPD’s legacy, the diplomacy behind it, and the lesson that still drives everything: the people most affected must lead the room. We also dig into the political reality. Luis explains the early...

Stephanie Cadieux Explains How Canada Tracks Accessibility Progress

2026-10-0928:07

A country level Chief Accessibility Officer is still rare, and Canada is treating that role like it matters. We sit down with Stephanie Cadieux, Canada’s Chief Accessibility Officer, to unpack what real accessibility oversight looks like when you are tracking progress under the Accessible Canada Act across thousands of federally regulated organizations, from banks and telecoms to airlines and transportation. We get specific about the seven priority areas that shape the work, and why Stephani...

Ten Years of Accessibility in the News with Jack McElaney

2026-09-3031:13

Jack McElaney, Chief Revenue Officer at Microassist, has published the weekly newsletter Accessibility in the News for 10 years. He started in 2016 by emailing articles to colleagues he met at conferences. Then people began asking to subscribe. Jack spends about 22 hours a week on it, on top of his day job. It carries no advertising and no sponsors, and it is free, because many people in the disability community can't spare the cost. Neil Milliken, Debra Ruh and Antonio Vieira Santos ask Jack...

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