Answers to "Are you able to name 5 excellent accessibility features in this photo?"



Hello everybody,

First of all,  I want to give a big thankyou to the staff of Invermere's Pioneer Newspaper for putting the picture in their papers February 2nd edition, of me gratefully receiving a cheque from The Kinsmen Club of Windermere. 

I am so grateful to Dave Oaks and other Kinsmen members for helping endorse "Count Me In",  and for believing in my dream of making my community more inclusive to all people in all places. 

I am also grateful for this advertising for Count Me In by our local paper, however, I also just want to point out that they cropped the picture. This makes sense for them to crop it for space issues, however,  it makes it difficult to spot the five accessibility features in the photo.

I have asked the papers to run the article again with the full picture, but, for now here is the picture with all  the accessible feature for you to view.  Can you name what the accessibility features are?

Check back on this blog on Thursday, February 9th  for the "5 excellent accessibility features" in this photo. 

Thanks again to The Pioneer and to The Kinsmen for your support in my inclusion projects. 








 

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