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Remarkable World Commentary Episode #114: Left Out or Left Behind

Remarkable World Commentary Episode #114: Left Out or Left Behind

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🎙️ Remarkable World Commentary Episode #114: Left Out or Left Behind https://donnajodhan.com/rwc-10-01-2026/ In this pointed episode of Remarkable World Commentary, Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA opens October with a question she calls controversial: when barriers shut people with disabilities out, are they being left out or left behind? She points to online forms that banks, educational institutions and certification bodies still fail to make accessible, calling out the Apex organization for inaccessible sign-up forms, InnoSearch for trying and failing, and Pearson VUE for an online certification exam she says was not accessible in any way. She recounts trying to renew her business registration through ServiceOntario, where the online form was inaccessible and the first agent told her to find someone to help, until a third agent resolved it. She also raises elevators in medical buildings with no braille labels or speech, office buildings designed without accessible entrances, and the lack, as far as she knows, of a federal minister assigned to accessibility in Mark Carney's government, adding that she is a Mark Carney fan and would apologize if a minister has been named. Donna's story of the month comes from a listener with multiple disabilities who used her mental stretch to cope with a lack of compassion from management and coworkers. She walks through the technique: sit or lie somewhere quiet, choose one of the senses, such as the smell of lavender, and let it send messages from the brain through the whole body, from the toes up to the head. She closes by announcing that Your Mental Stretch with Donna will be refreshed in January with a new way of doing mental stretches and an experienced co-host who writes songs and uses music therapy. TRANSCRIPT Podcast Commentator: Greetings. Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, and MBA invites you to listen to her bi-weekly podcast, Remarkable World Commentary. Here, Donna shares some of her innermost thoughts, insights, perspectives, and more with her listeners. Donna focuses on topics that directly affect the future of kids, especially kids with disabilities. Donna is a blind advocate, author, sight loss coach, dinner mystery producer, writer, entrepreneur, law graduate, and podcast commentator. She has decades of lived experiences, knowledge, skills, and expertise in access technology and information. As someone who has been internationally recognized for her work and roles, she just wants to make things better than possible. Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA: Hello there. I'm Donna J. Jodhan, and welcome to my first Remarkable World Commentary podcast for October. Goodness, October is here, and October is steaming along. And I wanna thank all those who have taken the time to either write to me at donnajodhan@gmail.com. That is D-O-N-N-A-J-O-D-H-A-N, my first and last name, @gmail.com, or who have taken the time to respond to my podcast by listening to it, by reading the show notes. Thank you, everybody. So it is the first week in October, and for my topic, I have chosen a very controversial one, or I should say it's a question. It is all about left out or left behind. Which is it? And there are so many instances that I could refer to that talks about left out or left behind, and I want to give you some examples of what I mean, okay? Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA: When online forms are not accessible to persons with disabilities, is this reason to say that we are being left out or that we are being left behind? We have too many online forms that are not accessible. From the banks in the banking industry, and one of the main culprits are those educational institutions and those universities. Universities may be a bit better in this instance, but the institutions and organizations that are offering courses and certifications to those persons with a disability, and for me as a person who is vision impaired, these forms are not accessible. So it means that we cannot take certifications. We cannot take advantage of banking services. We cannot take advantage of special offers from stores and other types of organizations who offer these incentives. I'm going to call out the Apex persons or organization. Donna J. Jodhan, LLB, ACSP, MBA: When I first got to know them, they were with Novacoast. Now they're with somebody else, but I'm still gonna call them out because their online forms for signing up and for doing other activities with them were totally inaccessible, and they offered little to no help as to how to do it. So I had to pay somebody to do it. In the case of another company called InnoSearch, they tried. They really tried, but they failed. And in the case of the Pearson VUE organization, here is another well-known international organization/agency/whatever you want to call them, did not make the online exams or online certification exam that I took accessible in any way and did not seem interested in wanting to do it in any way. So are we being left out or ...
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