Podcasts

Practical Accessibility Insights

By CMS Web Solutions

Practical Accessibility Insights is your go-to podcast for actionable advice and expert perspectives on making digital and physical spaces more accessible. Each episode provides valuable insights into designing inclusive websites, apps, and environments, with a focus on real-world solutions and best practices. Featuring interviews with accessibility experts, case studies, and tips for implementing effective strategies, this podcast aims to help businesses, educators, and innovators create spaces that are welcoming and usable for everyone. Tune in to gain practical knowledge and stay informed.
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Triple Vision

By The Pandora Project

On Triple Vision, the Pandora Project brings you the history of Canadians who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, one story at a time, illuminating the challenges of the past, present, and future.
Spotify

Innovation Alchemy, Accessible By Design

WEtech Alliance: A podcast dedicated to exploring the magic, mess, and mastery of innovation.
Accessible By Design: Making Inclusion Your Competitive Advantage

Hackforge: Engage More Users with Accessibility Inclusion

Explore how the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) can help businesses reach wider markets through inclusivity. Presenter David Best, an expert with over 35 years of experience in accessibility and IT, walks us through how implementing the core principles of AODA can create better customer experiences and unlock new business potential.

Key Takeaways:
• Dignity: Turning information into knowledge
• Independence: Making accessibility usable
• Integration: Shifting from passive to active inclusivity
• Equality: Building stability and satisfaction

Startup Canada Podcast: Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage with David Best

Startup Canada Podcast, EPISODE 406, May 16, 2023
Accessibility as a Competitive Advantage with David Best.

AT BANTER EPISODE 313, December 7, 2022

This week it’s not only the biggest episode we’ve ever done, but one of the most important. We’re packing the Anti-Gloom Zoom Room full this week as Rob, Ryan, Lis, and Steve welcome the members of the Triple Vision Podcast – Peter Field, Charlie Ayotte, Hanna Leavitt, and David Best – to talk about their show which aims to rebuild the narrative of the experience of Blind Canadians in history through research and personal stories. They discuss the podcast’s origins and the importance of ensuring that the story of Canadians who are blind or partially sighted are told by the community and not lost to time.

Triple Vision on Accessible Media Inc. (AMI)

From the AEBC’s Pandora Project and AMI-audio comes a new podcast that aims to tell the history and stories of blind Canadians. Join co-hosts David Best and Hanna Leavitt as they speak to historians, community members and those who were there for the moments that shaped the lives of blind Canadians for generations. On Triple Vision, hosts David Best and Hanna Leavitt bring you the history of Canadians who are blind, deafblind, and partially sighted, one story at a time, illuminating the challenges of the past, present, and future.
Triple Vision on Apple Podcasts
Triple Vision Podcast on Spotify

Slide Presentation: The Leadership of Accessibility

By David Best, City of Toronto Information Technology Services, March 2019
The accessibility challenge is the deficit gap between the user abilities and the system capabilities. The goal is to bridge the accessibility gap, through inclusive design, that will create the best possible end-user experience. Accessibility is a measurement of productivity, and productivity defines usability. Usability is concerned with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction through multiple means of representation, multiple means of expression, and multiple means of engagement. That is, design is the bridge between the information delivery and the knowledge received. If you do not understand the information then it is just noise, and your limited understanding will impair your decision making. That is, cognitive considerations for visualization and the information interface design, are important for making products and services accessible and usable. The bridge design must consider the physical and cognitive characteristics of people with a holistic user interface that incorporates vision, audio, and touch, so as to close the gap of inclusion.
YouTube: City of Toronto Accessibility Forum (51:30 David Best speaking)

Guelph Accessibility Conference 2017

AMI Inside, Season 3, Episode 16, July 13, 2017
AMI Inside travels to Guelph University for the 9th annual Accessibility Conference, one of the largest of its kind in Canada, featuring compelling sessions focused on the importance of achieving inclusion. BlindSquare starting at 15:00 for 10 minutes.