Slate & stylus, Canadian Printing for the Blind Fonds, CSTM archives, Ottawa, ON, Canada
braille technologies
Slate & stylus (c.1980) collected by Ernst Hamm for the Canadian Science and Technology Museum in 1986.
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson
Canadian Science and Technology Museum Corporation
Carleton University Disabilities Research Group
c.1820s- present
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson. Use with permission.
Sharlyn Ayotte, April 2016, Ottawa ON
Accessibility, consumer activism
Photograph of Sharlyn Ayotte at her Ottawa home, April 2016, holding up a kerchief her guide dog wears which reads "I am Your Customer, One Voice, More Choice"
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson
Sharlyn Ayotte
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
April 2016
Photograph by Beth Robertson, use with permission
Ottawa ON
SCOAP Award to T-Base Communications, RBC and NCR, 1998
assistive or adaptive technology, accessible design
Society of Canadian Office Automation Professionals award given to T-Base Communications, RBC and NCR for their collaborative work on the design and development of the Talking ATM, c.1998
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson
Sharlyn Ayotte, SCOAP
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
1998
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson, use with permission
Ottawa, ON
Sara Kirke Award, given to Sharlyn Ayotte 2009
accessible design, consumer advocacy, assistive and adaptive technology
Sharlyn Ayotte received the Sara Kirke Award from Carleton University's Sprott School of Business in 2009 in recognition of her achievements as a woman high tech entrepreneur.
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson
Sharlyn Ayotte, Carleton University's Sprott School of Business
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
2009
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson, use with permission
Ottawa, ON
Royal Bank Talking ATM orientation kit, part 1, with earphones
Talking ATM, RBC, orientation
One part of the orientation kit developed by T-Base for the RBC through its InfoTouch system, alongside earphones to be used with the ATM
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson
Sharlyn Ayotte, T-Base Communications, RBC
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
c.1997
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson, use with permission
Ottawa, ON
Roland Galarneau Interview, c.1987
Assistive technologies, computerized braille
An interview with Roland Galarneau on the eve of his retirement about his technical inventions and life experiences.
Cypihot-Galarneau Services, Co,
Canadian Science and Technology Museum Corporation
Carleton University Disabilities Research Group
c.1987
audio-cassette recording
French
oral interviw
Hull, Quebec
Refugee case file, 1951. An image of "blind displaced person" case file put together for the CNIB to facilitate selection of individuals to be sponsored and resettled in Canada. The attached photograph depicts a young family, including husband, who was blind, sitting beside his wife and eight-year old daughter.
A refugee case file, put together by the American Foundation for the Blind Overseas and CNIB
An image of "blind displaced person" case file put together for the CNIB to facilitate selection of individuals to be sponsored and resettled in Canada. The attached photograph depicts a young family, including husband, who was blind, sitting beside his wife and eight-year old daughter.
Canadian National Institute for the Blind Fonds, box 49, file 12, R3647-0-9-E, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa ON
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
1951
RBC Accessible ATM, 2016
Assistive or adaptive technology, accessible banking, barrier-free and inclusive design
This is an image of the contemporary accessible Automated Teller Machine, located at the Royal Bank branch at 99 Bank, near the corner of Queen Street in Ottawa, ON. The first image is taken from the ramp and railing moving up to the machine, ensuring the ATM is accessible to all customers. The second image is taken from a position directly facing the machine where the iconic accessibility signs are prominently displayed above the machine.
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson, at the Royal Bank of Canada, 99 Bank Street, Ottawa ON
National Cash Register Corporation
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
3 June 2016
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson. Machine owned and operated by the Royal Bank of Canada. Use with permission.
Ottawa ON
Picht braille-writer (c.1900), CSTM artifact no. 1987.0263.001
braille-writers and assistive technologies
Picht braille-writer c.1900, first developed by Oscar Picht, director of the Provincial School for the Blind in Bromberg, Germany, and later director of the State Blind Institute Berlin-Steglitz. First manufactured in 1899 by the company B.R. Herde and F.R. Wendt, and continued production until the 1930s
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson
B.R. Herde and F.R. Wendt Co., Canadian Science and Technology Museum Corporation, Ottawa, ON
Carleton University Disabilities Research Group
c.1900
Photograph by Beth A. Robertson. Use with permission.
Photograph of Karol Gamrot and guide dog, Utta
Postwar refugees, displaced people who were blind
This photograph depicts Karol Gamrot, a once displaced person who was blind, when he first arrived in Canada in the early hours of 18 January 1951, Montreal Airport, kneeling beside his guide dog, a German Shepherd named Utta
Canadian National Institute for the Blind Fonds, box 49, file 11, R3647-0-9-E, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa ON
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Carleton University's Disability Research Group
18 January 1951
Montreal, Canada