Inclusive Design Research Centre

IDRC’s Regulating the Digital Domain (RtDD) project is addressing the failure of existing regulatory processes to create inclusive and accessible digital systems. Our multidisciplinary team is tackling six key challenges that will lay the groundwork for a system that will create a fair, inclusive and accessible digital world for everyone. Our team wants to hear from you! Starting next week, the team will be posting weekly questions on our social media for feedback from our community. Each question will relate to one of the six RtDD challenges. Want to start participating in the conversation? Register on our Canvas platform and join our discussion to help shape the future of digital accessibility regulation: https://ow.ly/lko550UKsGc #RtDDChallenge #digitalaccessibility #disability

IDRC’s Regulating the Digital Domain (RtDD) project is addressing the failure of existing regulatory processes to create inclusive and accessible digital systems. Our multidisciplinary team is tackling six key challenges that will lay the groundwork for a system that will create a fair, inclusive and accessible digital world for everyone. Our team wants to hear from you! Starting next week, the team will be posting weekly questions on our social media for feedback from our community. Each question will relate to one of the six RtDD challenges. Want to start participating in the conversation? Register on our Canvas platform and join our discussion to help shape the future of digital accessibility regulation: https://ow.ly/lko550UKsGc #RtDDChallenge #digitalaccessibility #disability

IDRC’s Regulating the Digital Domain (RtDD) project is addressing the failure of existing regulatory processes to create inclusive and accessible digital systems. Our multidisciplinary team is tackling six key challenges that will lay the groundwork for a system that will create a fair, inclusive and accessible digital world for everyone. Our team wants to hear from you! Starting next week, the team will be posting weekly questions on our social media for feedback from our community. Each question will relate to one of the six RtDD challenges. Want to start participating in the conversation? Register on our Canvas platform and join our discussion to help shape the future of digital accessibility regulation: https://ow.ly/lko550UKsGc #RtDDChallenge #digitalaccessibility #disability

The Alberta government has cut funding to three self-advocacy groups for people with intellectual disabilities more than a year before the expiry of their contracts: https://ow.ly/rt3C50UI4ku #disability #advocacy #Alberta

IDRC's newsletter has a new look! Each Recount issue has the latest news, events and initiatives in the data science, disability and AI communities from the IDRC and its We Count community. Read the latest issue: https://ow.ly/6p4E50UrffO #AI #newsletter #disability

AI regulation is going to be a focus for 2025! Read this CNBC article for an overview of some of the key areas: https://ow.ly/p5IU50UAx4Y #AI #AIregulation

The IDRC project teams wish everyone a wonderful holiday season filled with joy, good health and happiness! #HappyHolidays

Erasing Imaginary Lines, Healing the Land was an exhibit that took place at the Yellowhouse Art Centre on Galiano Island, BC, from October 5–27, 2024. It presented the work of the Xetthecum digital ecocultural storymap, an intergenerational, cross-cultural and community-led project focused on creating an ecocultural storymap of an area known as Xetthecum in the Hul’q’umi’num’ language (Retreat Cove, Galiano Island). The exhibit also featured projects that are related to or that inspired the Xetthecum project, including species maps of Galiano Island created by local artists, an overview of Whiteswan Environmental’s work, and a digital project gallery. To learn more, visit the exhibit project page: https://ow.ly/U1vb50Uvgu3 #exhibit #Xetthecum

MIT researchers have developed a new technique that removes specific data points in a dataset in order to balance it and reduce bias in the dataset. Learn more: https://ow.ly/3e9p50UuxZR #AI #AIbias

The IDRC's Baby Bliss Bot project team aims to extend and expand the capabilities of phonetic-based LLMs to handle meaning-based symbol systems like Blissymbolics. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/e8_36zFQ #AI #Blissymbolics #LLMs