About Us

March 16th 2018
Access Ready, Inc. came about after an article that questioned why we don’t treat the accessibility of information and communications technologies as importantly as we do the accessibility of buildings.

 

Access Ready Environments | Douglas George Towne
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October 17th 2018
Together with two friends we formed Access Ready, Inc. on October 17th 2018 and began gathering our Board of Directors.

 

Access Ready, Inc. Articles of Incorporation
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Access Ready, Inc. ByLaws (Revised)
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Access Ready, Inc. Board of Directors Collective CV
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Then we developed a brochure to explain our position and our mission.

Access Ready, Inc. Brochure
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To put our vital positions in one place we developed a Positioning Statement.

Access Ready, Inc. Positioning Statement — Guidance and Corporate Organizational Information
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As Access Ready, Inc. developed we came to the conclusion that we needed a for-profit Social Purpose Corporation through which we could work to develop new accessible technologies.

March 2019
Access Ready Strategic Social Purpose Corporation was formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Access Ready, Inc. (the nonprofit) with 60% of its Board of Directors made up of members of the nonprofit board.

 

April 2020
We received our 501(c)(3) determination letter. This determination from the IRS was retroactive to our corporate filing date of October 17th 2018.

 

Access Ready, Inc. 501(c)(3) Determination Letter
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Meet our Founders below and learn more about our Founding Memorials, to which we owe our creation and all that comes after.


Corporate Founders


Platinum

  • Douglas George Towne, Disability Relations Group
  • John Medcalf, VOTEC

Platinum Founder Douglas George Towne of Disability Relations Group & John Medcalf of VOTEC Corporation shake hands on the launch of Access Ready, Inc.
Photo: Platinum Founder Douglas George Towne of Disability Relations Group & John Medcalf of VOTEC Corporation shake hands on the launch of Access Ready, Inc.

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Bronze

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Nonprofit Founders


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Individual Founders


Platinum

  • Douglas George Towne

Gold

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Silver

  • This could be you!

Bronze

  • Elizabeth Campbell
  • Dean Doulou
  • David M. Ellis
  • Stephen Handschu
  • Hal Knight
  • Maureen E. Knight
  • Paul R Michaelis, PhD
  • Carol Westlake

Mission

The mission of Access Ready, Inc., an independent, nonprofit, cross-disability rights advocacy organization, and Access Ready Strategic, a Social Purpose Corporation, is to promote a policy of accessibility benefiting all people regardless of ability across all Information and Communications Technology (ICT) utilized for two-way communications.

 

Vision

The vision of Access Ready, Inc. and Access Ready Strategic is to realize a society in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) are accessible to all people, regardless of ability, as a matter of course and not as an afterthought.

 

Values

The values of Access Ready, Inc. and Access Ready Strategic are to instill integrity, planning, consideration, and opportunity into the creation, management, and maintenance of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to benefit all people, regardless of ability.