Accessible Design 

Tools for Change is a project of our community partners, including OPIRG Toronto, OPIRG York, The Community Action Centre of the Student Association at George Brown College, OCAD Student Union, Greenpeace Canada and No One Is Illegal (NOII). We help you develop skills to champion social, economic, and environmental justice. We host approximately 20 skillbuilding workshops a year. Workshops are offered on a sliding scale with scholarships available. Staff and active volunteers of our community partners can attend for free or by donation. This includes students from University of Toronto, York University, George Brown College and OCAD.Interested in Tools for Change delivering a speaking engagement, capacity building program, or workshop tailored to your organization's needs? Contact us attools.change@gmail.comRegister for our Certificate in Social Change programJoin our email listto receive workshop announcements and useful resources.Become a Tools for Change community partnerand have your members attend workshops for free.

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As designers we ask ourselves many questions when creating a new poster, flier, or graphic. Who is the audience? What is the action we want people to take when they see my final product? What emotion or goal do I want to convey with this graphic? But one we all to often forget to ask ourselves is can everybody access my graphic equally?... Things such as colour palette, font and layout can either inhibit or encourage accessibility by taking into account the variety of access needs that people have in our society. In this workshop geared towards folks with a pre-existing understanding of software like Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign, we will be exploring the portion of design theory that interrogates accessibility in its many formats and how to apply that theory into your work. 
Date: Tuesday April 4th Time: 6-9 PM Location: Daniels Building Room 230 (1 Spadina Crescent) Accessibility: We will gather in a barrier free space. Subway tokens available to attendees by request. Please write to racheleopirgto@gmail.com if you have specific requirements.  
Trainer: LJ Robinson is currently an art director and graphic designer at The Public Studio. A doodling daydreamer politicized by student movements, they have worked as both an organizer and designer on promotional strategies and visual language for initiatives such as the Rainbow Reels Queer & Trans Film Festival (2011-2013), Mining Injustice Solidarity Network, Waterloo Public Interest Group (WPIRG), Free2Pee at George Brown College, York University Graduate Students’ Association, and Planned Parenthood Toronto’s Queering Sex Ed project. LJ holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Waterloo and studied Graphic Design at George Brown College, receiving an Equity Award for their design thesis project, a physical toolkit for small businesses to promote the safety of trans and gender nonconforming people accessing public bathrooms.

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