2019
Nous poursuivons nos activités tout en y ajoutant de beaux moments tel celui du lancement du livre de notre ami, l’ex-député de Rivière-du-Nord, Pierre Dionne Labelle, « Comme des poissons dans le désert », roman d’une douceur qui étonne puisqu’il marie la poésie du fleuve et la violence de la guerre en Syrie.
2020
La pandémie débute en mars avec ses interdictions de rassemblement. À l’automne 2020, avec le rehaussement consenti à notre organisme par le SACAIS, nous avons procédé à l’embauche de Dominique Laroche comme agente de développement et modernisé le mobilier de notre personnel. Madame Laroche fut chargée du dossier d’un possible agrandissement du local avec certains ajouts et de produire une demande de subvention au fédéral. En juin, le télétravail était privilégié mais ce n’est qu’en décembre qu’il est devenu obligatoire. Et c’est en juin 2020, que nous avons commencé l’utilisation de la plateforme ZOOM pour communiquer et travailler ensemble.
2021
La pandémie se poursuit. Report des célébrations du 20e anniversaire. Toutefois, ce n’est qu’en mars que grâce à la subvention du programme fédéral « Nouveaux Horizons pour les aînés » nous avons pu procéder à l’agrandissement de notre local. Il sera maintenant disponible tant au personnel et qu’aux membres du CA. À l’automne, survient le départ de Madame Laroche et le début des recherches pour se trouver cette fois-ci, une directrice générale.
2022
C’est ainsi que, au mois de mai, débute le travail de la directrice générale, Nathalie Goyer, une personne expérimentée, sensible et empathique à la cause des personnes handicapées. Elle sera soutenue par Madame Chenier qui, par sa grande connaissance du milieu, occupera le poste d’agente de développement. Lors de la SQPH, notre organisme procédait au lancement du premier protocole d’entente avec « exo », la Maison d’Ariane et nous, pour le transport adapté d’urgence offert gratuitement aux femmes handicapées victimes de violence conjugale.
2023
Célébration du 20e anniversaire… 2 ans plus tard. Lancement d’un deuxième protocole d’entente avec « exo » et, cette fois-ci, avec Le Mitan de Sainte-Thérèse et le RUTAC pour le transport adapté d’urgence offert gratuitement aux femmes handicapées victimes de violence conjugale. Les activités en transport se poursuivent tant avec exo, l’ARTM, l’ARUTAQ qu’avec la Coalition pour le maintien des services de transport adapté dans les Basses-Laurentides.
RUTAC
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers).
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs. There may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to