Update on the Canada Disability Benefit for provincial disability assistance recipients

September 12, 2024 by DABC

DABC is relieved to learn that all people who are eligible for the Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) and receiving provincial disability assistance will be able to keep all of the CDB.

Read more here: https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2024SDPR0014-001497.

Webinar on health supplements and benefits for PWD recipients

September 4, 2024 by DABC

Cream and blue poster featuring the DABC and ICBC logos, a graphic of a person on a computer screen with a speech bubble, and text that says "Join Our Upcoming Webinar - Health Supplements and Benefits for PWD Recipients. Made possible thanks to generous funding from ICBC. Location: Zoom. Date: Sept. 26th, 2024. Time: 10:00 am PST (further dates to come). www.dabc.ca"
Join our upcoming webinar on health supplements and benefits available to people receiving the Persons with Disabilities (PWD) Benefit!
 
When: September 26th, 2024 at 10 am
Where: Zoom
 
Webinar made possible thanks to generous funding from ICBC.

Statement of Work – A Redesigned Website for Disability Alliance BC

August 29, 2024 by DABC

DABC is planning to redesign our website to become easier for people to use and built with accessibility in mind. It is our preference to work with a web developer who has lived experience with disability and previous demonstrated experience designing accessible websites. If this is you, please reach out to feedback@dabc.ca.

About DABC

Disability Alliance BC (DABC) is a provincial, cross-disability non-profit and registered charity.

Our mission is to support people, with all disabilities, to live with dignity, independence, and as equal and full participants in the community. DABC works to fulfill this mission through our services, programs, community partnerships, advocacy, research, and publications.

We envision a society where people with disabilities are not only fully included, but also recognized as valued contributors; fostering a culture that upholds diversity and equity.

Context

DABC is undertaking a redesign of our website. It has been around 8 years since our website was last updated, and since then, we have taken into account lessons learned on content and design to improve the website. Our current website is quite slow, and difficult to navigate: https://disabilityalliancebc.org/

In preparation for the website redesign, DABC staff and board have put in the work to prepare strategic documents, feedback, and a vision for what we want our new website to be. We are looking for a web developer who can make our vision a reality. The web developer we work with will have access to these documents and responsive collaboration from our website redesign working group.

We are looking for a web developer who:

  • Has experience and knowledge in building accessible websites. We want to ensure that our website is as accessible as it can be, for as broad of types of disabilities as possible, by designing a site that does not rely on an accessibility overlay/widget.
  • Is values driven, and is inspired by the values of DABC.
  • Is able to find actionable solutions to the sheer volume of information we have on our website, and can make this more digestible and navigable for the user.
  • Can develop a website which requires minimal back end website knowledge in order for DABC staff to regularly maintain and update the website after it is created.

Timeline:

DABC is seeking quotes from web developers on estimated costs to build DABC’s new website.  We are hoping to carry out this work in the fall of 2024.