Reflecting on her Legacy: Sharlyn Ayotte Looks Back on Her Life as an Entrepreneur

In episode 47 the Triple Vision team speaks with Sharlyn Ayotte, the Founder of T-Base Communications, now Allyant. We talk to her on the day of her retirement when she looks back on her long and pioneering career as an entrepreneur who pushed the boundaries on accessibility and universal design. As T-base the company was responsible for the Info touch system which delivered real time information to Canadians in multiple and alternative formats, as well as developed North America's first audio banking machine. I had learned some things during that whole process. I spent probably a good year on investigating how the Government of Canada made information available to citizens and constituents of the country on matters that were really important to us. Whether it was election information or it was health based or whatever it happened to be. Since we were depending so much on computer technology to help us through the process, and its all digital, why couldn't they just support digital for other formats such as digital audio, digital braille, digital large print and all of those things.