Project Coordinator: David Pereyra
BIG IDeA brings together businesses, customers with lived experience of disability and the next generation of business leaders to advance accessibility innovation in Ontario and to build a culture of accessibility and inclusion. The Inclusive Design Research Centre leads the consortium that developed and piloted it, and I coordinated the project.
Choose your way in
Business
Training modules, tools and reusable accessibility components to help businesses lead and innovate in accessible and inclusive practices, and a way to be recognized for doing so.
Customers
For customers with disabilities, including visitors and tourists, their families and the groups they belong to: find businesses that meet your accessibility needs and share your reviews.
Resources
An open repository of training, tools and guidance on accessibility and inclusive design.
What BIG IDeA does
- Recognizing innovators. Businesses with exemplary and innovative accessibility practices are nominated and recognized online and at live events. Their work is assessed through continuous customer reviews and accessibility mapping events, together with verification by a multi-stakeholder expert panel.
- Engaging the community. Students, youth and the wider community take part in design challenges such as hackathons and design sprints.
- Supporting business. Businesses are equipped through a growing open repository of training modules, tools, resources and reusable accessibility components.
- Mapping an inclusive Ontario. Aggregated mapping tools help customers with disabilities find businesses that meet their accessibility needs.
Together these create a responsive ecosystem that advances accessibility for all customers, alongside business innovation and global leadership in inclusive design, for the benefit of Ontario’s economy and communities.
