Key Dates

Date: Tuesday, September 16th - Thursday, September 18th, 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Online via Zoom

What You’ll Learn

By the end of PEAC 500, you will learn how to:

• Build a Vision for Accessibility: Identify the key elements necessary for building a vision and commitment to accessibility in your workplace.
• Develop Disability Confidence: Understand key concepts like disability confidence and workplace accessibility, ensuring your organization moves beyond basic compliance.
• Navigate Employment Standards: Gain practical insights into employment accessibility standards and policies, recognizing how to apply them in a real-world setting.
• Turn Vision into Action: Discover how to turn your commitment to accessibility into action by developing inclusive policies, systems, and a clear organizational vision.
• Enhance the Employee Experience: Identify, evaluate and apply accessibility best practices at every stage of the employment life cycle from hiring to career advancement.
• Lead with Confidence & Accountability: Gain skills to drive accessibility-focused decision-making, advocate for change, and promote leadership accountability to create an inclusive workplace.

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Date: Thursday, September 25th, 2025

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: Online

Objectives: Equip participants with practical skills and strategies to leverage AI tools for accessibility and social good.

During this skill builder we will:

• Explore the potential of AI to enhance accessibility and drive social impact.
• Identify ethical considerations and challenges in using AI for accessibility.
• Explore current AI technologies and tools that improve accessibility for diverse populations.
• Develop skills to assess and apply AI solutions to address accessibility gaps.
• Foster a responsible mindset by promoting equitable and inclusive AI practices.

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Date: Tuesday, September 30th - Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Online via Zoom

What You’ll Learn

By the end of PEAC 800, you will learn how to:

• Identify Built-Environment Barriers: Gain insight into the physical obstacles people with disabilities face and how thoughtful design enhances usability for diverse users. 
• Design Spaces That Work for Everyone: Develop an understanding of “meaningful access” and fundamental requirements for designing, learning why they are critical when designing for the built environment.  
• Integrate Universal Design: Get practical tips on how to integrate Universal Design principles into planning and development, ensuring all individuals can navigate, use, and thrive in physical spaces. 
• Understand the Rules: Identify important Canadian and international accessibility laws, learn how to handle design challenges, and understand aspects of undue hardship in the physical environment. 
• Exceed Basic Compliance: Differentiate between building codes and standards, including the benefits of measuring access, ensuring no opportunity for inclusion is missed. 
• Upgrade Your Visibility: Learn about the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification program and how it can boost your organization’s reputation as a leader in accessible design. 

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Date: Tuesday, October 7th - Thursday, October 9th, 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM 

Location: Online via Zoom

What You’ll Learn

By the end of PEAC 300, you will learn how to:

• Differentiate Inclusive vs Universal Design: Develop a clear understanding of inclusive and universal design, their key differences, applications, and impact on user accessibility.
• Recognize Design Benefits: Explore real-world benefits, best practices, and strategies for creating products and environments that work for everyone.
• Unpack Accessibility Using a Design Mindset: Analyze practical Universal Design and Inclusive Design examples in the workplace and broader community to develop a deeper understanding of accessibility innovations and gaps.
• Apply Critical Thinking: Engage in thoughtful reflection and analysis to develop informed opinions on the evolving conversations around designing for accessibility.
• Cultivate User Empathy: Recognize diverse user needs and gain a deeper appreciation for the lived experiences of people with disabilities and their interactions with spaces and products.

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Date: Tuesday, October 21st - Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Online via Zoom

What You’ll Learn

By the end of PEAC 400, you will learn how to:

• Evaluate Accessibility: Use assessment tools to evaluate your organization’s current accessibility landscape, identifying gaps relative to laws, regulations, and best practices.
• Engage Community Partners: Design and implement inclusive consultations, focus groups, interviews, and surveys that effectively include persons with disabilities and other essential voices in the strategic planning process.
• Develop Inclusive Strategic Plans: Employ approaches to draft clear, inclusive strategic plans using plain language and accessible formats.
• Implement and Monitor: Craft actionable implementation roadmaps while developing strategies to set key metrics, assign responsibilities, and establish feedback loops to drive continuous improvement.

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Dates: October 2nd - October 30th, 2025

Time: Any time (self-paced)

Location: Online

4-week blended trainings including live Zoom sessions at the beginning and end of four self-paced online modules.

For an organization-wide accessibility plan to be impactful, staff at every level must understand and embrace an approach that supports all employees, including those with disabilities.

• Assess your organization: what is working well, existing gaps, and strategies to address barriers
• Develop and sustain an organization-wide accessibility plan 
• Establish organizational values that embrace the “Accessibility is Everyone’s Responsibility” mindset
  • Establish workplace expectations and policies 
  • Ensure accessibility is integral to the recruitment and hiring process
  • Empower individuals to request and receive reasonable accommodations
  • And more!

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Date: Tuesday, October 28th - Thursday, October 30th, 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Online via Zoom

What You’ll Learn

By the end of PEAC 600, you will learn how to:

• Create Inclusive Learning Environments: Implement proven strategies to foster accessible and engaging online and in-person learning experiences.  
• Design for Diversity: Apply accessible and inclusive design principles to create dynamic, flexible, and diversity-conscious learner engagement, assessments, and activities. 
• Identify Effective Accommodations: Identify and integrate systemic and process-related accommodations that ensure all learners can fully participate and succeed. 
• Connect Accessibility & Learning Theories: Enrich traditional learning theories by applying an accessibility lens to a variety of learning experiences.  
• Train the Trainer: Identify strategies for training others in accessibility and disability awareness, applying accessible best practices.  
• Plan for Impact: Develop a clear action plan to incorporate accessibility improvements into your current educational or training programs.

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Date: Wednesday, October 29th, 2025

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: Online

During this skill builder, we will:

• Define generational perspectives on disability and explain differences in how disability is understood and experienced across age groups.
• Explain how generational mindsets and intersectionality influence disclosure, inclusion, and access in the workplace.
• Identify inclusive leadership practices that support accessibility and psychological safety across generations.
• Apply inclusive strategies to create or strengthen disability-inclusive practices in your own workplace or team.

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Date: Tuesday, November 4th - Thursday, November 6th, 2025

Time: 12:00PM - 4:00PM

Location: Online via Zoom

What You’ll Learn

By the end of PEAC 100, you will learn how to:

• Identify Disability Frameworks: Examine the differences between key models of disability, their individual and societal impacts, and how they shape workplace accessibility.
• Recognize Barriers: Identify physical, social, attitudinal, and communication barriers experienced by people with disabilities in the community and workplace.
• Apply Adaptive Strategies: Explore a variety of adaptive strategies which can enhance the accessibility and inclusion of the workplace for everyone, including people with disabilities.
• Foster Respectful Communication: Adopt intentional and inclusive language when discussing accessibility and interacting with people with disabilities.
• Understand Intersectionality: Analyze how disability intersects with race, gender, socioeconomic status and other factors that shape diverse lived experiences and access to opportunities.
• Lead with Compassion: Transform your workplace culture by embracing human-centered communication and allyship practices that prioritize respect, understanding, and meaningful engagement.

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Date: Thursday, November 27th, 2025

Time: 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Location: Online

During this skill builder, we will:

• Identify how to communicate with customers who have various disabilities
• Explore how to interact with customers who:
  • Use service animals, support persons, assistive devices
  • Are neurodivergent
• Identify how to use any devices or equipment the provider may have to help customers access goods or services 
• Practice how to assist a customer having difficulty accessing goods or services

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