June 2022

Smart Citizens Enabling Resilient Neighbourhoods (SCERN) is a research project aimed at developing digital social tools and platforms to help municipalities understand how differences in neighbourhood environments affect community resilience.

To support their mission of maximum inclusivity, Open worked with the Health Equity Systems Interventions (HESI) Research Group at Wilfred Laurier University’s Centre for Community Research, Learning and Action to support the implementation of accessibility principles, and facilitated the testing of a mobile application by neurodivergent individuals to identify cognitive accessibility improvements.

MagnusCards is an innovative mobile app designed to assist autistic and neurodiverse people to gain independence in activities of daily living via step-by-step guides and positive reinforcement.

Each collectible Card Deck offers realistic scenarios to support inclusive and empowered living. Open works with Magnusmode to develop new card decks to best meet users’ needs, adapt text in easy-read and support usability and accessibility testing with real world users with a range of cognitive abilities.