Scottish Charities and Non-Profit Organizations

The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) assists Ontarians by “developing, implementing and enforcing accessibility standards in order to achieve accessibility for Ontarians with disabilities…”. This act creates a standard that must be met through all facets of society. Whether it be in an in-store customer experience, in the workplace or online, AODA lays a framework that will assist in the day-to-day lives of Ontarians with disabilities. This act greatly impacts the IT field, in that it changes the way IT professionals utilize technology, in order to assist and accommodate disabled citizens. Disabled Ontarians occupy a significant population within all of Ontario, “15.5% of Ontario’s population has a disability and this

Usability is a critical portion of web design that one must be ever mindful of when constructing websites. Whether creating a personal web space or building multiple pages for a large corporation, it is the burden of the designer to guarantee people can access that content. According to the United Nations, disabled people compose roughly 10 percent of the world’s population (United Nations, 2010). Many regulations and standards have been set forth to provide disabled people with the same opportunities to access content available on the World Wide Web, as it is most of the World’s population.

To ensure, users do not experience any issues particularly with users with disabilities when accessing the website, the guidelines set by W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), the most broadly adopted Web accessibility standard. They are set a set of guidelines that specify how to make content accessible, including devices. The guideline covers many areas, including alternatives for auditory and visual content, navigation mechanisms, ensure that documents are clear and simple, design for device independence, and many

Best Buddies is a non-profit organization that promotes the good through one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). It has created lasting relationships between students with disabilities and their peers, therefore, helping to improve the quality of life and level of inclusion for a population that is often isolated and excluded. It has also provided employment opportunities for those with IDD, allowing them to be productive members of the labour force. Lastly, Best Buddies has given those with intellectual and developmental disabilities the chance to realize their potential by encouraging them to become leaders.

The Canadian Red Cross Society is a non-governmental organization that provides food, water, shelter, and survival gear to those in need. I think that they are very helpful because not only do they help Canadians in need, but they also donate the money to help other countries around the world that suffer from medical problems, life-threatening diseases, recent natural disasters...etc. They have programs in different cities, some of the programs include aboriginal support services, community housing support, community support services, emergency and disaster services, first aid and CPR, health equipment loans, migrant and refugee services, nutrition and transportation, senior support services, swimming and water safety, violence, bullying and

Grand Junction, Colorado is a town in Western Colorado that has taken steps to excel in the health care field by providing cost effective and efficient care to their community. In lecture this week, we have learned that the key system concepts are: shared vision, shared reality, people, parts, interrelationships, leverage, adaptability and iterative learning.1 The article: Grand Junction, Colorado: A Health Community That Works, is an example of a patient-centered medical home that currently exists in the United States, and should be looked at as a possible solution to our current health care overspending crisis. I believe that the health care provided in Grand Junction, Colorado has excelled in all these concepts and will discuss their

When one talks about ‘Nonprofits’ many things come to mind; People often use phrases such as 501c3’s, charitable, ambassadors of the poor, and tax free organizations to umbrella the whole nonprofit sector. However, what large portions of our country fail to note is that there are differences within the nonprofit branch. There are two man categories of Nonprofits: Public, and Private; within those categories there are differing distinctions that allow for the separate identities of these organizations to in function and scope.

The Charity Organization Society was based in the scientific movement of organizations. Workers believed that charity work needed more definition and organization and that charity should be focused more on individual need rather than as a whole population. Focusing on individual need was intended to improve relief operations while making resources more efficient. They also intended to eliminate public outdoor relief. With the promotion of more organization and efficiency the new Charity Organization Societies were born. Trattner states that these new requirements for organization and efficiency spread so “rapidly that within 6 years 25 cities had such organizations and by the turn of the century there were some 138 of them in

The first policy alternative to consider is one suggested by Laura Cox Kaplan, a professor at American University and Co-Chair board member of the organization Running Start. Running Start is a non-profit organization that has the prime goal of combating the gender gap among elected officials and in Congress by motivating young women and giving them the skills that they need to thrive in their work environment (Kaplan, 2017). Kaplan’s suggests that organizations like Running Start can be used to close the gender wage gap both in the government and private sector (2017). The policy alternative would be to create and increase organizations that work closely with young women and provide them with skills needed to succeed in their careers, increase

According to the Australian Department of Social Services (2012), web accessibility is not just about making sure websites are usable for those with disabilities’; it is about making sure that a website can be used by as many people as is possible. This could include making sure websites are accessible for people on a variety of different devices, those with impaired abilities, the elderly, and people from a different cultural backgrounds who may struggle with the native language (W3C, 2005). Websites that are designed to be accessible are generally much more usable for everyone, not just those who may need certain accessibility features (Riley-Huff, 2012). It is important that websites are as accessible as possible not only to allow them

Cupid’s Charity is a non-profit organization built in 2010 which organizes the event Cupid’s Undie Run (CUR). This run is a 3k run which is organized in 37 cities in the United States of America during Valentine’s weekend every year for charity. The donations that are collected go to the Children’s Tumor Foundation to help people with neurofibromatosis (NF).

Charity: “An organization set up to provide help and raise money for those in need”

There are different kinds of standards and guidelines available to assist web designers to develop their web to be accessible and usable for all users including blind user. Most Guidelines and standards are vital from a practical standpoint. However, it is also important to be aware of that the guidelines and standards cannot accommodate all users all of the time. The areas where the guidelines or standards are not practical or vital, it needs to be clearly identified and alternate methods need to be known in order to achieve accessibility and usability. From the time when the introduction of the WCAG 2.0 in 2008, there are a selection of success criteria and methods suggested that could be used to achieve usability and accessibility (Zeldman & Marcotte 2010).

By publishing open standards for Web protocols and languages, the W3C aim to avoid web fragmentation with its goal of having ‘Web interoperability’. The W3C (short for World Wide Web Consortium) are a group founded in 1994 by Sir Tim Burners Lee, the same individual to have invented the World Wide Web in 1989. This compliance group are in charge of setting the international rules and guidelines for websites which are placed for the World Wide Web. They do this so that the Web progresses in a single direction rather than being split amongst competing divisions although it is not compulsory for a website or web browser to meet every

Charity is the voluntary giving of help, contributing tangible and/or intangible assets to a community, individual or a non-for-profit organization whose set up is to provide aid for those in need. “Contributions to qualified charitable organizations serve certain social welfare needs and thus relieve the government of the cost of providing these needed services to the community” (South-Western Federal Taxation 2016, p.10-18) So in turn, the government has recognized the advantage of taxpayers donating assets in need and therefore have created an incentive to encourage taxpayers to repetitively contribute. This enticement can be found in §170 of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), which authorizes individuals and corporations to deduct