Disabled Individuals Alliance (Dial) is a cross-disability consumer-controlled organization of people with disabilities. Its mandate is to improve the lifestyles of people with disabilities through education, participation and government liaison.

Dial is active within the Halifax Regional Municipality, and provides a voice for people with disabilities at the municipal level of government.

Dial has three members of the Board of Directors serving on the Halifax Regional Municipality Advisory Committee on the Status of People with Disabilities. The Halifax Regional Council appoints these members of this committee and the Committee is directly responsible to the Council.

Dial liaises with government officials at the municipal, provincial and federal levels on behalf of people with disabilities.

Dial is serving on the Provincial Government Task Force studying parking spaces reserved for people with disabilities.

Dial provides training for its members in selected topics, such as keyboarding and basic computer skills.

Dial produced Bridging the Gap, a series of interviews of people with disabilities on local cable television and also taped a number of television programs focusing on the abilities of people with disabilities.

Dial was successful in stopping the upward spiraling of Access-A-Bus fares until they were equal with Metro Transit fares. They now change the same fares.

Dial was instrumental in motivating the cities of Halifax and Dartmouth to issue templates for the visually and manually impaired in the 1994 Municipal Election the only municipalities to do so.

Dial supported parents of school children with disabilities in their attempt to stop the move of classes to an inaccessible school.

Dial published the original edition of "People places programs", a comprehensive listing of services available to people with disabilities.

Dial sponsored the establishment of the tetra society of metro Halifax, a branch of the Tetra Society of North America, which is based in Vancouver.

Dial sponsored the Peer Partnership Centre, which was a founding member of the metro resource center for independent lining.

Dial has maintained representation on numerous committees over the years, including the Co-ordinating Committee of the Provincial Coalition of Literacy, the Provincial Labor Force Development Board and the Continuous Learning Association of Nova Scotia.