OpenConcept

According to Statistics Canada an estimated one in five Canadians over 15 years old has a disability. This slices through all sectors of our society and is a significant part of every community in our country. Often people with disabilities face problems with either the built environment (atoms) or digital tools (bits). Some struggle with both. Accessibility of digital assets (like websites, intranet sites, documents and videos) is complicated. People who are blind or or low vision come to mind when people think about digital accessibility, but it affects a much broader spectrum than just those with visual disabilities. People...

I had the pleasure of being on AXSChat talking about web accessibility and Drupal in October. It was actually a two stage process as Neil Milliken and Antonio Santo had a really fun video conversation on the Friday before. Unfortunately, Debra Ruh was not able to join us for the video discussion. That was captured and captioned and uploaded on the weekend. Then on Tuesday, October 23rd, we had an hour long Twitter discussion flooding the Twitterverse with questions about accessibility using the hashtag #axschat . You can watch the video here: But thought that it might be interesting to...

There are over a million Drupal sites on the internet. There is a huge range of organizations who use Drupal across all sectors of our economy. Unfortunately, when you look at Drupal.org you mostly see representation from the web industry. Web development shops, communications teams, and freelancers that make their living from building and customizing Drupal sites. It’s not that it isn’t amazing to have 100,000 plus developers in an online community working to make Drupal meet their needs. It is. But what we’re largely missing is those organizations that use Drupal to drive their enterprise, but don’t actively engage...

I am often inspired by the work of Tim Frick and the team at Mightybytes . He recently published an article on Aligning Your Organization with U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) . I’m going to try not to repeat the work he’s done, but try to add to it. You should read his article. The world is facing some rather unprecedented challenges . A great many of these challenges caused by unfettered capitalism . This is made worse with belief that profit is the only goal business should pursue. Greed was turned into a virtue and self-interest given primacy. About...