Canadian National Institute for the Blind

Despite the Canadian government agreeing to abide by standards set in a 2010 UN convention that mandates braille signs in indoor and outdoor facilities including schools, Vancouver building codes have not followed suit. As such, neither…

Reported by Roxanne Egan-Elliott Soma Ali can do everything that other students can on campus, but she can’t fight a bureaucracy that fails to address her concerns. Two years after raising concerns about the lack of braille signs on…