Resources

Toronto Parks and Trails Wayfinding

The Toronto Parks and Trails Wayfinding system was developed to improve accessibility and facilitate exploration across the city’s extensive network of parks and multi-use trails. The project created a consistent, city-wide wayfinding system that supports visitors in finding destinations, understanding trail conditions, and moving seamlessly between parkland and urban environments.

Building an Accessible Digital Workplace

2toLead partnered with the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) in Toronto to design an inclusive intranet and build awareness and skills around accessible content creation.

TRIUMF website

TRIUMF.ca was redesigned to improve accessibility and simplify complex scientific content for diverse users. The site features clear navigation, plain language and a balanced visual design with strong contrast and readability.

Hearing Happiness by Jaipreet Virdi

Author Jaipreet Virdi combines memoir and historical research to explore deafness, hearing technology and society’s evolving perceptions of disability in America. A thoughtful read for anyone interested in disability history and inclusion.

Design and Disability: 10 Tales Of Accessible Design

V & A Publishing, 2025

This visually rich book celebrates design ingenuity, acknowledging the significant contributions of disabled individuals and communities to design and making the point that, simply put, inclusive design is better for all. Covering ten projects across fields including fashion, community practices, social media, graphic design, gaming and architecture, Design and Disability delves into the motivations and methods of their creators. It poses questions that are central to their design, such as how to balance diverse access needs, what does radical visibility mean and what makes a community. Design and Disability offers a manifesto for living now and into the future. It addresses an urgent gap in the literature and is led by disabled communities, emphasizing the importance of recognizing disabled individuals as experts in their own experiences.

Access Ability 2: A Practical Handbook on Accessible Graphic Design

Adam Rallo RGD, Eric Forest RGD, James Kuo RGD, Randal Boutilier RGD, Edmund Li RGD

Revised + Supersized Second Edition. This book is meant for anyone involved in the process of designing communication materials. This is a broad group of individuals, including professional graphic designers, clients, educators, students, and many others. Some of you are accessibility experts. Some of you have never even heard of the term accessible design until now.

Wavefront Centre for Communication Accessibility

Offers guidance for creating more inclusive workplaces for Deaf, DeafBlind and hard-of-hearing employees, including practical communication tips and workplace considerations.

Smashing Magazine

A practical guide to designing better captions, subtitles, transcripts, video experiences and on-screen text. Includes recommendations that improve usability for Deaf and hard-of-hearing users as well as broader audiences.

Pivotal Accessibility

An approachable overview of auditory accessibility, explaining common barriers and offering practical recommendations for creating more inclusive digital experiences.

Accessible Colour Palette Builder

This palette builder creates a quick grid that tells you what combinations will meet or fail 4.5:1 contrast ratio.

Colour Accessibility Testing Tool

Colour accessibility tool including different colour blindness and vision comparisons.

Web Accessibility Testing Tools

Webinar provided by Vision Australia on accessibility testing tools and methods for web. Provides a good introduction on the mindset and approaches you should use when accessibility testing a website.

Rikki Poynter

A Deaf and disabled content creator who shares videos on accessibility, captioning, disability advocacy and inclusive media practices through lived experience and commentary.

Building Brands Optimized for Accessibility by Sabrina Young RGD

In the talk, Sabrina will share details to help you automate the tedious, optimize accessibility and improve brand consistency, throughout your document designs, while gaining more time for your creative process.

Common Accessibility Issues and How to Fix Them

Would you like to learn more about the most common design-related accessibility problems and how to fix them? During the webinar, we will look at design examples with accessibility issues related to the usage of colour, colour contrast, keyboard functionality and more. We will see what groups of users are affected by these problems and how to resolve them. We will also talk about accessibility annotations and how they can help to reduce developer decision-making efforts.