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Accessibility Mats
After about 4 years with the Accessibility Advisory committee (AAC), I am proud to have been a part of getting accessibility mats installed at the beach in Port Dover. This took a year of work to accomplish. First as a committee we applied for a grant in July of 2016 for the accessibility mats. After…
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Long Point Island Hugger Tours
Not only am I going to be responsible for the website for this company that I will be talking about in a future post on my business website that I will be making when it’s released. But, I also have another job too, I’m the Experience and Disability Consultant in addition to being the Web…
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WordPress Birthday 2016
WordPress is officially a teenager having been around for 13 years now. I’ve been using WordPress for approx. 2 years now, and it’s my go to for websites depending on the needs of the people that I build sites for.
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The Four Freedoms
Just eleven months before the U.S. declared war on Japan, Fast forward 72 years to present day: technology has advanced at dizzying rates and spread to every aspect of our lives, from how we are born to how we die and everything that happens in between. In this co-evolution of society and technology, what it means to be truly…
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Now on WordPress
I have now joined the world of WordPress in version 4.0.1. My Journey on a new platform begins and so ends my old site that I coded by hand using HTML and CSS and then Bootstrap. About WordPress WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS). It’s used by approx. 25% of websites. It was originally created…
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New Websites Blog
Welcome to my Websites blog where you will find posts about the websites I’m working on/have worked on both on WordPress and that I have coded myself, as well as information about articles that I have read from around the internet about new and exciting things happening with the world wide web.
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RDSP – Registered Disability Savings Plan
Today I’m going to write about something the Federal Government of Canada did back in December of 2008. They introduced the Registered Disability Savings Plan (also known as RDSP) in their 2007 budget. It wasn’t until December of 2008 the RDSP was finally made available as a way for those with a disability to be…
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Importance of folic acid: A preventative for spina bifida and anencephaly
I recently came across an article on a website called the odyssey online by Ryan McGreal (for the original article go to the link shown). In this article he talks about Folic Acid and how it helps with the prevention of both Spina Bifida and Anencephaly, which are types of neural tub defects. He talks…
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I’ve joined my local AAC
Today I have started with the Norfolk County Accessibility Advisory Committee (ACC). This committee gives advice to the County Council to help it carry out its responsibilities under the AODA (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act). With the knowledge I’m gaining from my appointment to this committee I plan on being a Freelance Disability Consultant…
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Spina Bifida: Living With a Disability
This post will be about my life being different than a normal person and other information about Spina Bifida and related information, also of note is that next month, October, is Spina Bifida Awareness month which most people aren’t aware of. I will be updating this as I find more and more information about this…