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How accessibility can benefit everyone

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Whether it’s automatic doors or elevators, accessibility can benefit everyone, not just those with disabilities.


Brad Bartko, accessibility consultant and owner of Disability: Accessible by Design, said accessibility can take different forms but no matter how it looks, it helps create an inclusive environment for everyone.


“It not only affects people like me, but it helps someone like you, or else your neighbour or whatever,” Bartko said. “Accessibility and inclusion is for everyone and everybody’s life will become easier in one way, one way or another because of becoming inclusive and thinking about the bigger picture.


A person can develop a disability at any point in their life, be it permanent or temporary. So, it is important to be proactive in creating accessible environments.


We’re all bound to have a disability in some way, shape or form, like this old age, accident, illness, short-term, long-term, permanently — whatever that is. So it’s super important to build proactively and start to think of this stuff now,” Bartko said.





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