Billion-Dollar Accessibility Bungle: Accessibility Problems at New Toronto Courthouse Trailer

Описание: The new Toronto Courthouse, which opened in the first half of 2023 and which cost almost 1 billion dollars, has serious disability accessibility problems. Said to be Canada’s largest courthouse, this mega-courthouse, which includes some 63 criminal courtrooms, totally or partially replaces 6 courthouses around Toronto. This is the 4-minute trailer to a 14-minute video and a more detailed 49-minute video depicting disability barriers in this new court facility. It depicts barriers that were present over the weeks after the courthouse opened.

Narrated by blind Toronto lawyer and disability rights advocate David Lepofsky, Chair of the non-partisan Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, this video shows that this is a billion dollar accessibility bungle. This video will interest anyone concerned with disability rights, architecture, design of the built environment, equality or social justice. This long version provides detailed explanations of just some of this courthouse’s disability accessibility problems. The 14-minute version of this video is available at https://tinyurl.com/courthouse14. The 49-minute version is available at https://tinyurl.com/courthouse49.

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