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Opening Doors: Making The Built Veterinary Clinic Environment Accessible with the Rick Hansen Federation Accessibility Certificate™ Team
In honour of National AccessAbility Week, May 26 to 31, 2025, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association’s (CVMA) Wellness, Inclusivity, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (WIDEA) Committee hosted a webinar presented by the Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ Team.
Join us for a 1-hour webinar on Friday, May 30, 2025 from 12 to 1 p.m. EDT
The webinar was delivered in English via Zoom with AI-generated transcriptions in multiple languages, including Canadian French. All Canadian veterinarians, RVTs, veterinary team members, and veterinary students are welcome to attend.
A CE certificate will be available.
In this webinar, attendees learned how a planned meaningful access strategy creates a usable built veterinary environment that anticipates the needs of all people, including built environment features, and diverse user needs and preferences.
Learning Outcomes
- How to move past limitations of “compliance” and “checklist” mindsets.
- Adopting core principles for user-centric, cost-effective, and sustainable accessibility design.
- Creating and integrating your meaningful access strategy into project design.
- Growing your customer base by incorporating RHFAC into project design.
Hans (Uli) Egger, Technical Specialist, Accessibility Certification, Rick Hansen Foundation
Uli Egger is the Accessibility Certification Technical Specialist and Adjudicator at the Rick Hansen Foundation. Uli was among the first individuals to receive their Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ (RHFAC) Professional designation when the RHFAC program launched in 2017. He has conducted over 200 RHFAC ratings and currently sits on various committees, including the Accessible Standards Canada Technical Committee for a model standard for the built environment accessibility.
As a person who is Hard of Hearing, he also possesses the lived experience of understanding the importance of accessibility from a hearing disability lens. His interest in the built environment is the result of decades of hands-on involvement with persons with disabilities and the SCI community, including his significant other who sustained a Spinal cord injury (C6/7) as a young person. Uli is passionate about RHFAC and the impact it is making to break down barriers for meaningful access and inclusion for all people.