Cantor Access Inc. is a Toronto-based consultancy that works with organizations worldwide to ensure that their products, services, spaces, and web sites, are accessible to and usable by people with disabilities; and that their employees with disabilities can perform their jobs efficiently and effectively.
There are seven associates:
Alan Cantor
Dena Shumila
Sandy Feldman
Melissa Monty
Danny Hilton Chalfen
Christine Larouche
Barbara Roberts
Alan Cantor, B.Ed., M.A. is a researcher, writer and educator with expertise in making workplaces, schools and services fully accessible to people with disabilities. His consulting firm develops comprehensive accommodation plans for individuals with injuries and disabilities; advises organizations on ensuring that their products, services, and facilities are accessible to people with disabilities; and conducts programs on RSI (repetitive strain injury) prevention.
His clients include Hewlett-Packard; American Express; Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; Royal Bank of Canada; Bank of Montréal; Bell Global Solutions (a division of Bell Sygma, Inc.); Great Western Life Assurance Company; Standard Life Assurance Company; ICE Integrated Communications and Entertainment, Incorporated; the Public Service Commission of Canada; Human Resources Development Canada; Management Board Secretariat; the Ministry of Citizenship; the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario; the Ministry of Labour; the Ministry of the Environment and Energy; the Ministry of the Solicitor-General and Corrections; the Institute for Space and Terrestrial Sciences; the Hugh MacMillan Rehabilitation Centre; the Training Coordinating Group for Persons with Disabilities; Queen's University at Kingston; the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education; and the Academy of Learning.
E-mail Alan Cantor: acantor at cantoraccess dot com
Dena is an authority on assistive technologies, user interface design, and software evaluation pertaining to people with visual impairments. She has worked for the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto, Sun Microsystems, and Burson-Marsteller. Until recently she was Program Manager for Accessibility at SAP Labs in Palo Alto. She is in the final stages of completing a Masters degree at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
E-mail Dena Shumila: dena at envogueaccess dot com
Sandy Feldman is an award-winning web developer, graphic designer, and illustrator with a keen interest in accessibility and usability.
Melissa Monty, Ph.D., is a human factors engineer living in San Diego, California.
More details to come!
E-mail Melissa: melissa at accessful solutions (as one word) dot com.
Danny Hilton Chalfen, Ph.D., has fourteen years experience advising campuses on establishing adaptive technology services.
E-mail Danny Hilton Chalfen: dannyhc at qwest dot net
Christine Larouche, the principal of Larouche + Assoc., is interested in accessibility issues as they impact on the lives of francophones, girls and women, and people with physical and psychiatric disabilities.
E-mail Christine Larouche: clarouche at tvo dot org
Barbara Roberts, B.A. (Hon) (Queen's), M.Sc. OT (Boston) OT Reg.(Ont.) is an Occupational Therapist. In a career that spans two decades, Barbara has developed expertise in vocational rehabilitation, adult mental health, and pediatrics as well as accommodation issues in education. Since 1992 she has been the Disability Services Advisor for Health, Counselling and Disability Services at Queen's University. Barbara teaches in the School of Rehabilitation Therapy, and is working with the Council of Ontario Faculties of Medicine on a project exploring the policy issues pertaining to students with disabilities in professional clinical programs.
Barbara served for seven years on the Executive of Interuniversity Disability Issues Association, where she worked on institutional issues of accommodation and human rights implementation; and as Vice-President of the Canadian Association of Disability Service Providers in Post-Secondary Education.
Barbara is the mother of two children with special needs, a first-class problem solver, and an aficionado for new challenges! Feel free to forward questions to Barbara!
E-mail Barbara Roberts: robertb at post dot queensu dot ca
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