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15 Systems Snapshot: Public Awareness Timeline

The following table is a ‘timeline map’ showing selective markers and milestones that have enhanced inclusion with key policies and pledges on the left and significant movements and mobilizers on the right. As the timeline progresses from top to bottom from the 1940s to the 2030s, inclusion is enhanced as both social movements and public policy evolve.

Policies and Pledges

  Timespan

Movements and Mobilizers
  • Marsh Report
  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
 1940s
  • Injured veterans returning from WWII elevate awareness of disability and accessibility
1960s
  • First Paralympic Games (Rome)
  • Community living movement
  • Canada Ratifies ICESCR & ICCPR
  • Special Parliamentary Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped
 1970s
  • Group homes emerge as an alternative to institutionalization
  • Social model of disability
  • Intl. Year of Persons with Disabilities (1981)
  • Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Section 15)
 1980s
  • Rise of representation in media
  • Huck v Odeon Cinemas
  • Self advocacy movement
  • Disability studies
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)(Indirect influence on Canada)
 1990s
  • ‘Reverse integrated’ facility practices
  • Neurodiversity movement
  • Muir v. Alberta
  • Transgenerational design
  • UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
 2000s
  • UX and Human-centered design
  • Not Dead Yet (countermovement to assisted suicide movement)
  • Spoon theory
  • Design for all / universal design
  • Report: Rethinking disability in the Private Sector
  • Marrakesh Treaty
  • Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (OADA)
  • Accessible Canada Act (ACA)
 2010s
  • Integrated services models
  • Disability Pride
  • Employment first
  • Mad movement
  • Disability Action Plan
  • EXPECTED: Disability Benefit implemented
  • SPECULATIVE: Alberta establishes Access for All Albertans Act
 2020s
  • Social media and disability culture
  • Disability-inclusive response to COVID 19
  • Disability Without Poverty
2030s
  • SPECULATIVE: ‘Anti-newgenics’ movement forms in response to hyper-ableist gene editing

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