Carleton University often calls itself “one of Canada’s most accessible universities,” but what do people in the Carleton community who have physical disabilities have to say about accessibility on campus?

Journalist Caelan Monkman wondered that when he started spotting what he thought might be accessibility issues as he moved around campus.

He went looking for an answer with people who use a wheelchair to get around, and researchers who study accessibility.

Credits

Produced by Martin Halek, Caelan Monkman and Zenith Wolfe

Special thanks to Mahtot Gebresselassie, Rachel Kwok, Fady Shanouda and Sarah Trick

Additional material:

Persons with disabilities aged 15 years and over, by gender and disability type, 2017 and 2022 by Statistics Canada, Statistics Canada Open Licence

Coordinated Accessibility Strategy Renewal, Carleton Accessibility Institute, Carleton University

Carleton Creates Canadian Accessibility Network, Carleton Newsroom, Carleton University

Coordinated Accessibility Strategy – Home, Carleton Accessibility Institute, Carleton University

Coordinated Accessibility Strategy, Coordinated Accessibility Strategy Steering Committee, Carleton University

Campus Tunnel Map, Carleton University – Finance and Administration, Carleton University

Accessibility at Carleton, Carleton University – Accessibility, Carleton University

Disability accessibility at York University’s Keele Campus, Peter Yuan Qu and Mahtot Gebresselassie, PhD, York University – Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change 

 

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