And for adults
Rock star: My life on and off the ice By Jennifer Jones
celalibrary.ca/node/26786566
Blackness Is a Gift I Can Give Her: On Race, Community, and Black Women in Hockey By R. Renee Hess
celalibrary.ca/node/25362263

The Olympic rings appear above the text: Get in the Olympic spirit with some books on incredible athletes from CELA.

For kids and teens: The longest shot: How Larry Kwong changed the face of hockey celalibrary.ca/node/25375156
Game changers: Stories of hijabi athletes from around the world celalibrary.ca/node/25719716
Athlete is agender: true stories of LGBTQ+ people in sports celalibrary.ca/node/26559317

Join us tomorrow!
Updates for Android and iOS devices have come a long way, especially for braille readers. Our presenters will go in-depth into features available on both iOS and Android mobile devices, including braille screen input.
Jan 22, 2026 10:00 AM PT
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Un graphique blanc représentant des silhouettes de personnes ayant des difficultés de lecture apparaît sur un fond rouge, au-dessus du texte : « Le 3 décembre est la Journée internationale des personnes handicapées. »

À l'occasion de la Journée internationale des personnes handicapées, nous rendons hommage aux personnes handicapées ainsi qu'à leurs alliés et aux organisations qui les soutiennent et œuvrent à leurs côtés pour éliminer les obstacles à leur pleine inclusion et à l'égalité.

YouTube video by RNIB What is Audio Description?

Audio descriptions are necessary for making videos accessible. They narrate the crucial visual elements that would be necessary for understanding the plot without the ability to see the screen. They describe non-verbal cues like gestures, facial expressions, or eye contact.

A graphic in white of silhouettes of people with print disabilities appears against a red background and above the text: December 3 is International Day of Persons with Disabilities.

On International Day of Persons with Disabilities we honour those living with disabilities and the allies and organizations who support and work alongside to remove barriers to full inclusion and equitality. Read disability memoirs published in the last year celalibrary.ca/2025_Diability_Memoirs

Your site's users need enough time to interact with content and fill out forms. People with disabilities such as blindness, low vision, dexterity impairments, and cognitive disabilities might need more time for things such as forms. Allow users to turn off or extend time limits.

If you feel like you don't know what you don't know about accessibility, it can help to follow folks who discuss assistive technology, accessibility and disability. Here's a list of people who post a lot about those.

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On a light blue background the text says 'Becoming Anti-Ableist. Hosted by Elisabeth Walker-Young & Shawna Lawson of Inclusive Experiences. Wednesday, November 26th, 10am - 11:30am PDT on Zoom.' There is an image in a graphic style of three people in a parade. Two are walking and one person is in a wheelchair. The colour scheme is purple, blue, black, beige, and white. There are two logos for the British Columbia Library Association and Professional Development program.

We hope to see you next Wed. Nov. 26th for the Becoming Anti-Ableist workshop at 10am with Elisabeth Walker-Young and Shawna Lawson of Inclusive Experiences. This session is “grounded in lived experiences and principles of disability justice.” Register today! tinyurl.com/inclusiveexp...

Book cover of Flesh by David Szalay

Congratulations to David Szalay who won the Booker Prize for his book Flesh. "In Flesh, Szalay has conjured a character who is unknowable and blunt, yet fully realized and somehow incredibly loveable."
Read it in audio celalibrary.ca/node/26174317
and braille celalibrary.ca/node/25576771

Audio descriptions are necessary for making videos accessible. They narrate the crucial visual elements that would be necessary for understanding the plot without the ability to see the screen. They describe non-verbal cues like gestures, facial expressions, or eye contact.

The text Join us for I read Canadian Day appears beneath the French and English logos for I Read Canadian.

Today is I read Canadian day when we can spend 15 minutes reading a great Canadian story. Check out our Kids and Teens Awards page for suggestions for Canadian books! We guarantee you will find one you love. celalibrary.ca/Kids-Teen-Aw...

"DES LIVRES CANADIENS POUR MOI est une journée nationale de célébration de la littérature jeunesse canadienne!" apparaît sous les logos de DES LIVRES CANADIENS POUR MOI

Vous cherchez de bons livres canadiens à lire avec des jeunes? Consultez notre page des prix littéraires pour enfants et adolescents.
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Merci à toutes les organisations pour leur travail de sensibilisation. #a11y 2/

Une capture d'écran montre 14 membres du personnel du CAÉB, tous vêtus de rouge et souriant à la caméra. Ci-dessous, les mots « Les membres du personnel du CAÉB portent du rouge » en l'honneur du Mois de sensibilisation à la dyslexie.

Octobre est le mois de sensibilisation à la dyslexie et, récemment, toute l'équipe du CAÉB s'est habillée en rouge pour soutenir nos utilisateurs dyslexiques et la communauté au sens large. On estime qu'une personne sur dix souffre de #dyslexie et mérite des ressources de lecture accessibles ! 1/

A screen capture shows 14 CELA staff, all wearing red and smiling at the camera. Below are the words CELA staff wear red in honour of Dyslexia Awareness Month.

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month and recently the CELA team all wore red in support of our users with dyslexia and the broader community. It's estimated that 1 in 10 people have #dyslexia and they deserve accessible reading materials! Thanks to all organizations for raising awareness. #a11y

Félicitations à tous les auteurs et créateurs en nomination pour le Prix du Gouverneur général de littérature. Retrouvez tous les titres en nomination dans notre collection et revenez nous voir ! Nous en ajouterons d'autres dans les prochaines semaines. celalibrary.ca/2025GG #GGBooks2025

Congratulations to all the authors and creators nominated for a Governor General's Award for Literature. Find all the nominated titles now in our collection and check back as we will be adding more in the coming weeks. Happy Reading! celalibrary.ca/2025GG #GGBooks2025

Catalogue search unavailable October 21 7-7:30 pm EDT
On Tuesday October 21, 2025 from 7 to 7:30 pm EDT the search function on the CELA website and Alexa skill will be unavailable for necessary maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Recherche du catalogue indisponible le 21 octobre de 19h à 19h30 HAE
La fonction de recherche sur site web du CAÉB et dans la skill Alexa seront indisponibles le 21 octobre de 19h à 19h30 HAE pour des travaux d'entretien. Nous nous excusons de l'inconvénient que cela peut vous occasionner.

If you're new to captioning videos for your content, you might feel as if you don't know what you don't know. Meryl Evans' "Does Your Video Make These 6 Common Caption Mistakes?" is a great resource to help make your captions better.

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Library friends. If you are planning activities for upcoming children's programming, we have some tips for integrating #accessibility. Check out our Accessible Libraries Crafts and Activities resource.
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Amis bibliothécaires ! Si vous prévoyez des programmes pour enfants, voici quelques conseils pour intégrer l'#accessibilité. Consultez notre ressource « Activités manuelles et manuelles pour les bibliothèques accessibles ».
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Common misconceptions about screen readers - TetraLogical Screen readers are familiar to many in digital, but how they work in practice can be less clear. In this post, we shed some light on the topic.

Screen readers are software applications that convert on-screen content into audio, reading aloud what’s displayed on your laptop or mobile screen. In this blog post, @tetralogical.com debunks common myths about screen readers.

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/10...

Automatic captions make it difficult to watch videos because the viewer is forced to decipher misspelled or mistranslated words that appear in a string of text without any punctuation. These can be distracting and disorienting. Always edit your captions before publishing.

The hashtag #accessibility allows you to find lots of accessibility-related resources on Twitter and LinkedIn. To find accessibility resources in Spanish, use the hashtag #accesibilidad. The hashtag #accessibilité helps you find resources in French.

If you're struggling to decide what to include or what to leave out, think about how you might describe this to someone you know.

Imagine you and a friend are driving by, and they have to keep their eyes on the road. How would you describe the image to them in a meaningful but succinct way?

You don't necessarily need to say "image of" in your alt text for users to know it's an image. Screen readers will announce that it's an image. But it can help readers to specify if it's a hand-drawn image, Polaroid, infographic, screenshot, chart, map, diagram, or so on.

Le CAÉB a repris la production et la distribution de matériels de lecture en braille en relief et en braille imprimé, ainsi que le rechargement des appareils Envoy Connect. Il pourrait y avoir des retards de livraison de votre matériel en raison des grèves tournantes des employés de Postes Canada.

Now that Canada Post workers have begun rotating strikes, CELA has restarted production and distribution of embossed braille, printbraille and reloading of Envoy Connect devices. There may be delays in receiving your materials due to rotating strikes by Canada Post workers.