{"id":9815,"date":"2025-09-11T09:46:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T13:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/?page_id=9815"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:14:36","slug":"coordinated-accessibility-strategy-advisory-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/accessibility-strategy\/coordinated-accessibility-strategy-advisory-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Coordinated Accessibility Strategy Advisory Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Coordinated Accessibility Strategy Advisory Group\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>The CAS Implementation Plan guides Carleton\u2019s work toward a more accessible and inclusive campus. A key contributor to this effort is the Advisory Group, a volunteer committee made up of students, staff, faculty,&nbsp;instructors,&nbsp;alumnus,&nbsp;and people with lived experience of disability.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Advisory&nbsp;Group provides essential insight and strategic advice, helping ensure that accessibility initiatives reflect community needs, highlight emerging practices, and stay aligned with Carleton\u2019s long\u2011term goals.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"advisory-group-members\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Advisory Group Members<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Joe Bennett,\u00a0<\/strong>Faculty Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Ariel Birkinshaw,&nbsp;<\/strong>Alumnus,&nbsp;Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Megg Blackwell,&nbsp;<\/strong>Alumnus,&nbsp;Contract Instructor, Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Tyler Canning,<\/strong>&nbsp;Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jamie J. Carmichael,&nbsp;<\/strong>Graduate Student,&nbsp;Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Adrian Chan,&nbsp;<\/strong>CAS Co-Chair, Faculty Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gabrielle Chisholm,&nbsp;<\/strong>Undergraduate Student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Michael&nbsp;Cicchillitti,&nbsp;<\/strong>Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vicente del Solar Gunn,&nbsp;<\/strong>Academic Coach,&nbsp;Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Caroline Flocari,&nbsp;<\/strong>Graduate Student,&nbsp;Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Carly Fox,&nbsp;<\/strong>Graduate Student, Teaching Assistant<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Amanda Goth,&nbsp;<\/strong>Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Onyx Gubbels,&nbsp;<\/strong>Undergraduate Student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Mako&nbsp;Hirotani,<\/strong>&nbsp;Faculty Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Janet Jull,<\/strong>&nbsp;Faculty Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Patricia Kmiec,&nbsp;<\/strong>Contract&nbsp;Instructor<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cathy Malcolm Edwards,&nbsp;<\/strong>CAS Lead, Alumnus,&nbsp;Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,&nbsp;<\/strong>Graduate Student,&nbsp;Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,<\/strong>&nbsp;Faculty Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,<\/strong>&nbsp;Undergraduate Student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,<\/strong>&nbsp;Undergraduate Student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,<\/strong>&nbsp;Faculty Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,&nbsp;<\/strong>Undergraduate Student&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anonymous Member,<\/strong>&nbsp;Undergraduate Student<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Gabriel Pires,<\/strong>&nbsp;Professional&nbsp;Staff&nbsp;Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Justyna&nbsp;Szluinska,&nbsp;<\/strong>Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Boris Vukovic,&nbsp;<\/strong>CAS Co-Chair, Alumnus, Professional Staff Member<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>M. 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A key contributor to this effort is the Advisory Group, a volunteer committee made up of students, staff, faculty,&nbsp;instructors,&nbsp;alumnus,&nbsp;and people with lived experience of disability.&nbsp; The&nbsp;Advisory&nbsp;Group provides essential insight and strategic advice, helping ensure that accessibility initiatives reflect community needs, highlight [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":379,"featured_media":0,"parent":1431,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-9815","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9971,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9815\/revisions\/9971"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/accessibility-institute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=9815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}