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- Pay Deductions for Deputy Ministers who Do Not Meet Accessibility Goals
- Publicizing Examples of Organizations that Remove Accessibility Barriers
- Communicating the Financial Benefits of Accessibility for the Private Sector of Ontario
- Interface for Crowd-sourcing Reviews of Accessibility
- Changing Discussions about Disability in Mainstream Media
- Social Impact Bonds to Fund AODA Compliance
- Epilepsy Awareness Month
- International Wheelchair Day
- Feedback Processes for Accessibility in the Public Sector of Ontario
- Accountability for Accessibility Plans in Ontario
- Measurable Outcomes for Accessibility Success
- Panel of People with Disabilities to Consult on Crucial Accessibility Concerns
- Public Dashboard of Information about Disability
- Gathering Data on Life Expectancy of People with Disabilities
- International Epilepsy Day
- Use of Data on Disability in Public Policy Decisions
- Research Team to Gather Data on Disability
- White Cane Week
- Eating Disorders Awareness Week
- Provincial Government Responsibility for Accessibility in the Public Sector of Ontario
- Federal Government Responsibility for Accessibility in the Private Sector of Ontario
- Auditing Accessible Procurement
- Accessibility Action Plan
- Agency to Oversee AODA Enforcement and Other Accessibility Initiatives
- Accessibility Plans for Government Services and Employment
- Emergency Response Protocol that Addresses the Needs of People with Disabilities
- The Fourth Review of the AODA
- Speech Recognition in Websites and Documents
- Understandable Content in Websites and Documents
- Customizable Text in Websites and Documents
- World Braille Day
- Keyboard Navigation in Websites and Documents
- Accessibility Audits for Private or Nonprofit Businesses
- Questions in Accessibility Reports for Private or Nonprofit Businesses
- Accessibility Reports for Private or Nonprofit Businesses
- Accessibility Audits for Public Sector Organizations
- Accessibility Report Questions for Public Sector Organizations
- Accessibility Reports for Public Sector Organizations
- Accessibility Statements on Websites
- Audio Narration in Websites and Documents
- Hyperlinks in Websites and Documents
- Visual Styles in Websites and Documents
- Tables in Websites and Documents
- Lists in Websites and Documents
- Hiding Decorative Objects in Websites and Documents
- Image Descriptions in Websites and Documents
- Alt-text in Websites and Documents
- Headings in Websites and Documents
- Colour Contrast in Websites and Documents
- Universal Design for the Web
- Veterans with Disabilities
- Size and Space for Approach and Use
- Low Physical Effort
- Tolerance for Error
- Perceptible Information
- Simple and Intuitive Use
- Flexibility in Use
- Equitable Use
- AODA Standards for Goods and Products
- Enacting AODA Postsecondary Education Standards
- Accessibility Review of College and University Financial Policies
- Removing Financial Accessibility Barriers in College and University
- Policies for Improving Physical Accessibility in College and University
- Improving Physical Accessibility in College and University
- Accessibility in College and University Campus Life
- Business Continuity Plans for Emergency Situations at College and University
- Service Animals at College and University
- Accessibility in College and University Policies
- Accessibility Lens for Decision Making at College and University
- Processes to Resolve College and University Accommodation Disputes
- Accommodating College and University Students with Disabilities
- Student Union Commitment to Accessibility at Colleges and Universities
- Digital Learning and Technology Plans at College and University
- Accessible Technology at College and University
- Accommodating Student Employees with Disabilities
- Accessible Supervision of Graduate Students with Disabilities
- Accessible Formats and Communication Supports at College and University
- Accessibility Standards for Teaching and Learning at College and University
- Accessibility Training for College and University Student Health Centre Staff
- Accessibility Training for College and University Protective Services Staff and Emergency Management Services Staff
- Accessibility Training for Contractors at College and University
- Accessibility Training for College and University Event Planners and Hosts
- Accessibility Training for College and University Media and Information Technology Staff
- Accessibility Training for College and University Career Counsellors
- Accessibility Training for College and University Disability Services Staff
- Accessibility Training for College and University Administrators and Senior Leadership
- Accessibility Training for College and University Educators and Librarians
- Accessibility Training for College and University Employees
- Definitions of Accessibility and Other Terms in the Postsecondary Education Standards
- Identifying Essential Requirements in College and University Courses
- Funding to Implement the Postsecondary Education Standards
- Government Leadership to Implement the Postsecondary Education Standards
- Accessible Admissions to College and University
- School Transition Programs for Students with Disabilities
- Alternative Transition Programs and Pathways for Students with Disabilities
- School Transition Assessments for Students with Disabilities
- Transitions Facilitators for Students with Disabilities
- Accessible Transitions from School to Work
- Accessible Transition Planning in Education
- School Transitions for Indigenous Students with Disabilities
- Enacting AODA K-12 Education Standards
- Enacting AODA Healthcare Standards
- Implementing the First Review of the Information and Communications Standards
- Implementing the First Review of the Employment Standards
- Second Review of the Transportation Standards
- Implementing the First Review of the Transportation Standards
- Review of the Design of Public Spaces Standards
- Review of the Customer Service Standards
- AODA Compliance in an Ecosystem Model for Updating AODA Standards
- Trusted Authority in an Ecosystem Model for Updating AODA Standards
- Community Platform in an Ecosystem Model for Updating AODA Standards
- Accessibility Laws in an Ecosystem Model for Updating AODA Standards
- Accessibility Ecosystem Model for Updating AODA Standards
- Providing Accessibility in Information and Communication Tools and Systems
- Providing Accessibility in School Curricula at Every Level
- Procuring Accessible Learning Resources
- A Definition of Educational and Training Institutions
- More Programs to Train Captionists in Ontario
- Gathering and Analyzing Accurate Data about People with Disabilities
- Expanding the Application of Web Accessibility Compliance Requirements
- Accessible Procurement for Websites
- Accessible Mobile Applications
- Following the Latest Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Accessible Online Audio and Videos
- Revoking Exemptions to Web Accessibility
- Web Accessibility Requirements Throughout the AODA Standards
- Better Emergency Preparedness at All Levels of Government
- Emergency Preparedness and Response Requirements Throughout the AODA Standards
- Clear Accessible Feedback Requirements Throughout the AODA Standards
- Accessible PDF Files
- Accessible Product Labels
- On-demand Accessible Government Communication
- Providing Accessible Formats and Communication Supports
- Review of the Information and Communications Standards
- Monitoring Implementation of Return to Work Processes
- Up-to-date Individualized Accommodation Processes in Ontario Workplaces
- Workplace Emergency Response Information and Individualized Assistance
- Accessible Employee Recruitment, Assessment, and Selection Processes
- Notifying Job Applicants about Workplace Accommodation at Every Stage of Employment
- A Definition of Employee in the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation
- The Ontario Human Rights Code and the AODA’s Employment Standards
- The First Review of the Employment Standards
- Coordinating Specialized Transit Between Cities
- AODA Training for Taxicab Drivers
- On-demand Accessible Taxicabs
- Fees for Medical Forms on Specialized Transit
- Clarifying Booking Requirements on Specialized Transit
- Multiple Fares on Specialized Transit
- Technical Requirements on Public Transit Vehicles and Stops
- Passengers with Disabilities Boarding Public Transit
- Service Animals on Public Transit
- Accessible Seating on Public Transit
- Support Persons on Conventional and Specialized Transit
- Travel Training for Passengers with Disabilities
- Assistive Devices and Public Transit
- Review of the Transportation Standards
- Assessing and Improving AODA Compliance in Transportation
- Assessing and Improving AODA Compliance in Public Spaces
- Assessing and Improving AODA Compliance in Customer Service
- Assessing and Improving AODA Compliance in Employment
- Assessing and Improving AODA Compliance in Information and Communications
- Accessibility Compliance Reports for Organizations in the Public and Private Sectors
- Accessibility Requirements for Public Libraries in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Educational Resources in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessibility Training for Educators in Ontario and Manitoba
- Information and Communication Accessibility Training
- Accessible Information and Communication Policies
- Web Accessibility in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Feedback Processes in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Formats and Communication Supports in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Information and Communication Standards in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Customer Service for Public Events in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Customer Service Training in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Customer Service Feedback Processes in Ontario and Manitoba
- Notification of Temporary Service Disruptions in Ontario and Manitoba
- Requirements for Welcoming Support Persons in Ontario and Manitoba
- Requirements for Service Animals in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Customer Service Policies in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Customer Service Standards in Ontario and Manitoba
- Employment Accessibility Training in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Performance Management and Career Advancement in Ontario and Manitoba
- Return to Work Processes in Ontario and Manitoba
- Individual Accommodation Plans for Workers in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Workplace Emergency Response Information in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Workplace Information in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Employment Policies in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Employee Recruitment in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Employment Standards in Ontario and Manitoba
- Consultation and Training to Implement Accessibility Standards in Education
- Accessibility in School for Students with Environmental Sensitivities and Autism
- Workshops to Stop Bullying in School
- Policies to Increase Funding for Construction of Accessible Schools
- Physical Accessibility in School
- High-Quality Transportation of Students with Disabilities
- Dispute Resolution Process for Students with Disabilities
- School Placements of Students with Disabilities
- Disability Coach Programs in School Boards
- Policies to Limit Seclusion and Physical Restraint of Students with Disabilities
- Specialized Professionals to Support Students with Disabilities
- Assessments to Ensure Early Accommodation in School
- Accessible Individual Education Plans
- Accessibility in Face-to-Face and Online Learning
- Assistive Technology in School on Demand
- Processes to Ensure Training in Assistive Technology
- Accessible Resources on Curriculum Design
- Reducing Streaming of Students with Disabilities
- Modified and Alternative Curriculum Expectations for Students with Disabilities
- Instruction on Disability and Human Rights in School
- Qualifications for Teachers of Visually Impaired Students
- Enhancing Engagement of Students with Disabilities
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Status Messages
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Pointer Gestures
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Content that Appears and Disappears
- Web Accessibility Requirements for Non-Text Colour Contrast
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Designing Text Users Can Reformat
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Online Forms
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Display in Portrait and Landscape Orientation
- Updating AODA Requirements for Web Accessibility
- Campground Accessibility in Ontario
- Tactile Tours in Ontario
- Accessibility Training for Travel Agents
- A Government Website about Accessible Tourism in Ontario
- Websites about the Accessibility of Tourist Venues
- Accessibility Training for Tour Guides
- Accessibility on Tourist Excursions in Ontario
- Accessibility Training for Staff in Tourist Venues
- Physical Accessibility in Tourist Venues
- Disability Awareness for Political Leaders
- Political Candidates with Disabilities
- Accessibility in Political Offices
- Physical Accessibility at Political Events
- Accessible Information in Political Campaigns
- AODA Training for Polling Station Workers
- Accessible Voting Methods
- Accessible Polling Stations
- Accommodation Plans for Tenants with Disabilities
- AODA Training for Landlords and Other Workers in the Housing Industry
- Improved AODA Training for Long-Term Care Staff
- Improvements for Housing Allowances and Subsidies for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Best Practices for Supportive Housing
- Accessible Community Housing
- Accessible Information in Housing
- Accessible Housing Maintenance
- Retrofitting Housing
- Guidelines for Accessibility in New Housing
- The Need for More New Accessible Housing
- AODA Standards in Housing
- Removing Financial Accessibility Barriers for Graduate Students with Disabilities
- Government Public Education Campaign on Accessibility in College and University
- Accountability in Accessible Postsecondary Education
- Strategy to Implement the Postsecondary Education Accessibility Standards
- Improved Documentation of Disability in School Transitions
- Financial Support in School Transitions of Students with Disabilities
- Accessible Transition to Kindergarten
- Debriefing Large-scale Emergency Response in Education
- Preparing for Accessible Education During Large-scale Emergencies
- Accessible Online Learning During Large-scale Emergencies
- Accessible Large-scale Emergency Response Review in Education
- School Board Accessible Large-scale Emergency Response Plans
- Accessible Large-Scale Emergency Response Plans in Education
- International Day of Persons with Disabilities
- Preventing Physical Barriers in School
- Procedures for Allowing Service Animals in School
- Accessible Experiential Learning Programs
- Accessibility in School Social Activities
- Transporting Students with Disabilities
- Accessible School Events
- Improvements for Identification, Placement, and Review Committees
- Professional Development for Educators of Students with Disabilities
- School and School Board Accessibility Committees
- Data about Accessible Teaching and Learning
- Fair Procedures for School Exclusions of Students with Disabilities
- Limiting School Exclusions of Students with Disabilities
- Individual Education Plans
- Accountability in Accessible Education
- Accessible Education for Students with All Disabilities
- Preventing Technology Barriers in School
- Assistive Technology Training for Educators
- Accessible Communication Within and Between School Boards
- Accessible Assessments in School
- White Cane Safety Day
- Person-Directed Learning
- Curriculum Based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Differentiated Instruction
- Accessible Mental Health Education
- Accessible Physical Education Programs
- Accessible Indigenous Education
- Accessible Learning Resources
- Creating a Barrier-Free Curriculum for Students of All Abilities and Cultures
- AODA and Human Rights Training for Educators
- Human Resources Policies to Enhance School Accessibility
- Preventing Attitudinal Barriers in School
- School Board Networks of Staff and Students with Disabilities
- Universal Design for Learning and Disability Awareness
- Universal Design for Learning Policies
- Information Technology and Universal Design for Learning
- Multiple Means of Engagement
- Multiple Means of Action or Expression
- Multiple Means of Representation
- Universal Design for Learning
- AODA Education Standards
- Support for Patients and Healthcare Workers with Mental Health Challenges
- Support for Patients and Healthcare Workers with Brain Injuries
- Support for Patients and Healthcare Workers with Breathing Disorders
- Accessible Transportation in Healthcare
- Accessible Public Health Information
- Accessible Remote Healthcare
- Accessible Healthcare Reviews After States of Emergency
- Accessible Healthcare During States of Emergency
- Enforcement Framework for Accessibility in Healthcare
- Accessibility Awareness in Healthcare
- Accreditation Processes for Accessibility in Healthcare
- Accessible Complaint Processes in Healthcare
- Content of Improved Accessibility Training for Healthcare Providers
- Improving Accessibility Training for Healthcare Providers
- Ensuring Access to Support Persons in Healthcare
- Improving Communication Between Healthcare Workers and Patients with Disabilities
- A Culture of Respect for Accessibility in Healthcare
- Coordinating Accessibility Accommodations in Healthcare
- Involving People with Disabilities in Healthcare Service Planning
- AODA Healthcare Standards
- Improving Employment Opportunities for People with Disabilities
- Raising Awareness about Accessibility in Ontario
- Removing Accessibility Barriers in Buildings and Public Spaces
- Advancing Government Leadership on Accessibility in Ontario
- Educating Workers about Discrimination and Accessibility
- Avoiding Discrimination on the Basis of Disability
- Duty to Prevent Discrimination
- Competing Rights to Accommodation
- Health and Safety Concerns about Accommodating People with Disabilities
- Cost of Accommodation for People with Disabilities
- Undue Hardship
- Involving Medical Professionals or Other Consultants in the Accommodation Process
- Involving Others in the Accommodation Process
- Distinguishing Essential Requirements through Procedural Accommodation
- Accommodating Essential Requirements
- Procedural and Substantive Accommodation
- Reprisals
- The Right to Accommodation in Services
- The Right to Accommodation in Housing
- The Right of Returning to Work
- Alternative Work
- The Right to Accommodation in Employment
- Universal Design
- Principles of Accommodation
- The Right to Accommodation
- Poisoned Environment
- Harassment
- Lessening the Disadvantages of Discrimination
- Intersectional Discrimination
- Systemic Discrimination
- Forms of Discrimination
- Discrimination
- Stereotypes and Stigma
- What is Ableism?
- Definition of Disability
- What is the Ontario Human Rights Code?
- Accessibility Law Reviews Across Canada
- Accessibility Compliance Appeals Across Canada
- Accessibility Compliance Orders Across Canada
- Accessibility Inspections Across Canada
- Accessibility Incentive Agreements Across Canada
- Accessibility Compliance Reports Across Canada
- Accessible Employment in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessible Customer Service in Ontario and Manitoba
- Accessibility Best Practices Across Canada
- Accessibility Standards Development Processes Across Canada
- Accessibility Standards Across Canada
- Accessibility Progress Reports Across Canada
- Accessibility Feedback Processes Across Canada
- Accessibility Plans Across Canada
- Public Sector Accessibility Advisory Committees Across Canada
- Accessibility Directorates Across Canada
- Accessibility Ministers Across Canada
- Accessibility Principles Across Canada
- Definitions of Disability Across Canada
- Improving Building Accessibility
- Assessing Building Accessibility
- Improving AODA Compliance in Public Spaces
- Assessing AODA Compliance in Public Spaces
- Improving AODA Compliance in Customer Service
- Assessing AODA Compliance in Customer Service
- Improving AODA Compliance in Employment
- Assessing AODA Compliance in Employment
- Improving AODA Compliance in Information and Communications
- Assessing AODA Compliance in Information and Communications
- Extended Deadline for AODA Accessibility Reports
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Preventing Online Barriers
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Inputting Information
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Compatibility with Assistive Technology
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Videos
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Audio
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Text
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Making Content Visible
- Web Accessibility Guidelines for Layouts
- Software Programs that Support Web Accessibility
- Hardware that Supports Web Accessibility
- New AODA Requirement for Ontario Websites
- Implementing the Third Review of the AODA
- Suggestions in the Third Review of the AODA
- Recommendations in the Third Review of the AODA
- Barriers for Children with Disabilities
- Disability and Poverty in Ontario
- Reasons to Fund Accessibility
- Paperwork in the AODA
- Disability Barriers in Specialized Transportation
- Disability Barriers in Public Transportation
- Disability Barriers in Healthcare
- Preventing Disability Barriers for Service Animals and their Handlers
- Disability Barriers for Service Animals
- Disability Barriers in Public Spaces
- Improving AODA Customer Service Training
- Disability Barriers in Customer Service
- Disability Barriers at Colleges and Universities
- Disability Barriers for Students with Dyslexia
- Disability Barriers in Education
- Improving Customer Service Feedback Processes
- Making Municipal Accessibility Advisory Committees More Effective
- Improving the AODA Standards Development Process
- Small Problems in Every-Day Accessibility
- A Government Strategy for Employing People with Disabilities
- Employing People with Disabilities
- A Website about Accessibility
- An AODA Resource Centre
- Support for AODA Compliance
- Creating an AODA Complaint System
- Enforcing AODA Compliance
- Enforcing the AODA
- Reforming the Management of Public Building Projects in Ontario
- Removing Barriers for People with Environmental Sensitivities
- Physical Distancing and Public Spaces After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessibility Training for Architects After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Physical Distancing and Building Design After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Disclosing Disability in the Workplace After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- More Myths about Workers with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Employing Workers with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Employment Accommodation Strategies After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accommodating Workers with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Returning to Work After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Temporary Service Disruptions After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- AODA Customer Service Training After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Customer Service After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- AODA Training for Transportation Workers After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Public Transportation After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Library Accessibility After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- AODA Training for Educators After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible School Resources After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Communication Supports After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Formats After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Audio Book Month
- Accessibility Training for Web Designers After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Remote Learning After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Teaching Students with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Workplace Mental Health After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Physical Distancing and Workers with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Communicating with Workers with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Remote Workers with Disabilities After the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Restaurant Service in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Restaurant Accessibility in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Serving Customers with Invisible Disabilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Customers with Invisible Disabilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Communication Devices in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Communication Supports in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Formats in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Communicating with People with Disabilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Customers with Disabilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Passengers with Disabilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Online Learning in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Accessible Remote Work in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Incentives for Housing Accessibility
- Retrofitting Buildings
- Stronger AODA Standards Governing Buildings
- Creating More AODA Standards
- Updating the Information and Communications Standards
- Further Development of Education Standards and Healthcare Standards
- Accessibility in Professional Training
- Accessibility in School Curriculums at Every Level
- Public Education Campaign on the Business Case for Accessibility
- Awareness of Every-Day Accessibility in Ontario
- Definition of Disability
- Connections Between Disability Laws in Ontario
- What is Accessibility
- Coordinating Accessibility Laws Across Canada
- Spending Public Money on Accessible Structures and Services
- Accessible Government Workplaces and Services
- Renewal of Government Leadership to Implement the AODA
- The Third Review of the AODA
- AODA Tribunals
- Directors of the AODA
- AODA Inspections
- Municipal Accessibility Advisory Committees
- The Accessibility Directorate of Ontario
- The Minister in Charge of the AODA
- The Accessibility Standards Advisory Council
- AODA Standards Development Committees
- What are AODA Standards?
- What is Disability?
- New AODA Requirement for School Libraries
- New AODA Requirement for Producers of Educational Resources
- New AODA Requirement for Government Websites
- Incentive Agreements For Accessibility Services
- Attitudinal Barriers at Work
- Disability and Attitudinal Barriers, Part 2
- Disability and Attitudinal Barriers
- Preventing Organizational Barriers
- Preventing and Removing Organizational Barriers
- Disability and Organizational Barriers
- Accessible Self-Service Kiosks
- Preventing and Removing Technology Barriers
- Disability and Technology Barriers
- Preventing and Removing Information and Communication Barriers, Part 2
- Preventing and Removing Information or Communication Barriers, Part 1
- Disability and Information or Communication Barriers
- Preventing and Removing Physical Disability Barriers
- Disability and Physical Barriers
- Disability Barriers
- Overcoming STEM barriers in school
- STEM Accessibility in School
- Disability in School Curriculums
- Preventing Accessibility Barriers through Professional School Programs
- Interacting with Service Animals in School
- Service Animals in Schools
- Accessible School Field Trips
- School Transportation Services
- Universal Design in School
- Part 2 of Accommodation in University and College
- Part 1 of Accommodation in University and College
- Accessible Job Placements
- Educators with Disabilities: Part 2
- Educators with Disabilities: Part 1
- Educator Training Beyond the Classroom
- Stronger Educator Training is Needed
- Accessibility training for educators
- Accessible Online Learning
- What School Information Should be Available Online?
- Accessible Education Apps
- Accessible Education Websites
- An Education Standard Could Mandate Sign Language Interpreters in Schools
- Sign Language Interpreters in Schools
- Students with Visual Impairments: Braille Instruction in Schools Part 2
- Braille Instruction in Schools: Part 1
- A Call for Stronger Information and Communications Standards in Education
- Accessible Information in Education
- AODA Requirements for Educational Institutions
- Disability Guidelines for Insurance Companies
- Peer Support for Patients with Disabilities
- Healthcare Workers with Disabilities
- Stronger Transportation Standards in Healthcare are Needed
- Accessible Healthcare Websites
- Online Healthcare Information: Providing Accessibility Awareness
- Online Healthcare Information
- Proactive Communication in Healthcare is Needed
- Accessible Formats in Healthcare
- Providing Accessible Information and Communication in Healthcare
- Creating a More Robust Customer Service Standards in Healthcare
- Accessible Healthcare: Access Helps Everyone
- AODA Requirements for Healthcare Providers
- Accessible Service in Sports Venues
- Accessible Information in Sports Venues
- Providing Accessible Service in Amusement Parks
- Accessible Information in Amusement Parks
- Accessible Amusement Parks
- Accessible Information in Offices
- Office Accessibility
- Providing Accessible Hotel Service
- Accessible Hotel Rooms for Guests with Various Disabilities
- Accessible Hotels: Making Guests of All Abilities Comfortable
- How to Provide Accessible Library Service
- Library Accessibility Features
- How to Provide Accessible Restaurant Service
- Providing Accessible Restaurant Information
- Improving Restaurant Accessibility
- Movie Theatre Accessibility
- Accessibility at Live Theatres
- Providing Accessible Government Service
- Making Government Information Accessible
- Accessibility For Ontario Government Offices
- Including Accessibility in Your Retail Policy
- Including Accessible Retail Features in Your Stores
- Best Practices For Serving Customers with Print Disabilities
- Providing Accessible Customer Service in Person
- Best Practices for Serving Customers with Invisible Disabilities
- Customers with Invisible Disabilities
- Best Practices for Serving Customers with Communication Devices
- Understanding Communication Devices
- Accessible Information in Customer Service
- Welcoming Customers with Assistive Devices
- Funding for Customer Service Accessibility in Ontario
- Online Customer Service Accessibility
- Providing Accessible Remote Customer Service
- Accessibility Features and Equipment in Customer Service
- Customer Service Venue Accessibility
- AODA Customer Service Training
- Providing Accessible Customer Service Feedback
- Support Persons’ Roles: What Do They Do and Who Needs One
- Support Persons Law in Ontario
- Temporary Service Disruptions: When and How to Notify Customers
- Understanding Service Animals
- Service Animal Laws for Ontario Workplaces
- Communicating with Customers with Disabilities
- Accessible Customer Service Policies in Ontario
- What is the Customer Service Standard?
- Accessible Public Spaces in Ontario
- Accessible Outdoor Public Use Eating Areas
- Accessible Service Requirements in Ontario
- Accessible Outdoor Play Spaces Requirements
- Accessible Beach Access Routes in Ontario
- Accessible Exterior Paths of Travel
- Accessible Parking in Ontario
- Accessible Recreational Trails in Ontario
- What is the Design of Public Spaces Standard?
- Accessible Transportation for Colleges, Universities, and Hospitals in Ontario
- Increased Demand for Specialized Transit
- Specialized Transportation in Ontario
- Travelling with Support Persons
- Accessibility Plans for Specialized Transportation Providers
- Accessibility Plans for Conventional Transportation Providers
- Courtesy Seating for Passengers with Disabilities
- Conventional Public Transit in Ontario
- Accessible Public Transit Vehicles in Ontario
- Public Transportation for Everyone in Ontario
- Individual Transportation Plans for Students with Disabilities
- Accessible Performance Management, Career Advancement, and Redeployment
- Accessible Information at Work
- Return to Work Plans for Ontario Workplaces
- Funding for Workplace Accommodations in Ontario
- Accommodating Workers who are Blind or Visually Impaired
- Accommodating Workers with Physical or Mobility Disabilities
- Individualized Workplace Emergency Response Plan: Part 2
- Individualized Workplace Emergency Response Plan
- Accommodating Workers with Brain Injuries
- Accommodating Workers with Mental Illnesses: Part Two
- Accommodating Workers with Mental Illnesses: Part One
- Accommodating Workers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
- Increasing Comfort: Working with People with Disabilities
- Individual Accommodation Plans in Ontario Workplaces
- Disclosure of Disability in the Workplace
- How to Make the Hiring Process Accessible
- What is the Employment Standard?
- What are communication supports?
- What are Accessible Formats?
- What is the Information and Communications Standards?
- What is the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (IASR)?
- Understanding the AODA Compliance Report
- National Disability Employment Awareness Month
- General AODA Requirements
- AODA Requirements for Public Sector Organizations with 50 or More Workers
- AODA Requirements for Public Sector Organizations with 1-49 Workers
- AODA Requirements for Private and Non-Profit Businesses with 50 or More Workers
- AODA Requirements for Private Businesses and Non-Profits with 20-49 Workers
- AODA Requirements for Businesses and Non-Profits with 1-19 Workers
- What is the AODA?
- Helping you Work with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
- Accessibility at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Japan
- Disabilities on Screen: Representation in Hollywood
- What is a Caroline’s Cart?
- Flex Seating in the Classroom Benefits Kids with Disabilities
- First Accessible Apartment Building Opens in Calgary
- IEPs Help Kids with Disabilities in the Classroom
- How to Behave Around a Service Animal
- Smartboards are Making Learning Accessible in Classrooms
- iCan Bike: Teaching Kids with Disabilities to Ride Bikes
- The GRIT Freedom Chair: Pushing the Limits on Accessibility
- Adaptive Clothing Brands Offered in Canada
- The R Word
- Ontario Playgrounds for Kids with Disabilities
- Accessibility at the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- Pokémon Video Games: They’re for the Visually Impaired Too
- Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC): Making Gaming Accessible
- Beach Accessories for People with Disabilities
- Accessible Pregnancy Clinic at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
- Global Disability Summit Report
- Ontario Public Transit: Accessible for Everyone
- Accessible Media: How People with Disabilities Enjoy Entertainment
- U of T’s Accessibility Report and Plan 2017-2018
- The First Global Disability Summit in London, England
- Accommodating Gym Members with Disabilities
- Community Accessibility: How You Can Get Involved!
- Accessible Writing Style
- Venue Policies make Access2 Cards Less Effective
- Accessible Camps for Children with Disabilities in Canada
- Accessibility at the 2018 World Cup in Russia
- Flying with a Disability
- Accessible Vacation Destinations Around the World
- University of Guelph BlindSquare App- Leading the way in Accessibility
- Sensory Friendly Attractions in Ontario
- Supporting Autism in Classrooms with Different Strategies
- Team Building Activities for Workers with Disabilities
- High Sierra Accessibility Features for People with Hearing Impairments
- Banning Plastic Straws and How it Affects People with Disabilities
- Incorporating Accessibility into Teaching and Training
- Creating an Accessibility Policy and Plan
- Accessible Digital Design
- Complying with AODA WCAG 2.0 Distinguishable Content
- Mobile Apps for People with Disabilities
- Challenges Facing Students with Disabilities in Ontario
- School Board Accessibility Training in Ontario
- Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible
- Accommodating Visually Impaired Workers
- Creating a Workplace Personalized Emergency Response Plan
- Accommodating Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace
- Making Outdoor Events Accessible
- AODA Training Requirements: Who Needs It and Why?
- An Accessible Ontario: Activities Undertaken by the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario
- Service Animals in the Workplace – Are They Allowed?
- Hiring People with Disabilities: Recruiting with AODA Accessibility in Mind
- Top Myths Regarding Disabilities in the Workplace (AODA)
- Who Enforces AODA Accessibility Compliance Requirements?
- Accessibility Policy and Accessibility Plan – Who Needs One?
- New AODA Accessibility Standards – Design of Public Spaces in the Built Environment
- AODA Enforcement: Where is it?
- New Integrated Accessibility Standard Regulation(IASR) Guide
- Public Meeting on Metrolinx’s Accessibility Initiatives
- McGuinty Government Belatedly Releases Guide to Implementing the Integrated Accessibility Standard for Accessible Transportation, Employment and Information and Communication but Needs to Properly and Widely Publicize It!
- Accommodating Bipolar Disorder in the Workplace, Part I: Disclosure and Stigma
- Providing Emergency and Public Safety Information for People With Disabilities Guide
- Tip Sheet: Helping Employees With Disabilities Stay Safe
- Technology Helps Hearing Impaired Stay in ‘Loop’
- Order hear: Culver’s Adds More Accessible Restaurant Drive-Thrus
- Top 5 Web Accessibility Pitfalls
- Service Animals and People With Disabilities – AODA Best Practices
- AODA: Inappropriate Words Can Bite – the Customer Service Standard
- Training Resource for Small Businesses and Organizations
- What a Screen Reader Is Not!
- Integrating People With Disabilities (PWD) Into the Workplace
- The OHRC Introduces a New Resource for Human Rights and Mental Health
- Tips for Webmasters: Improve Your Websites’ Accessibility
- Making Your Home Accessible
- Interviewing and Working with People who have Disabilities
- Why Accessibility Is Good For Your Business
- What is a Screen Reader
- What Does Accessibility mean
- Web Accessibility For Screen Magnifier Users
- Understanding The Needs Of Persons With Disabilities (PWD’s)
- The Four Levels Of PDF Accessibility
- Plan an Accessible Meeting
- Make Your Workplace Accessible
- Make Buildings And Spaces Accessible
- Legal Rights For People Who Use Service Animals
- How People With Disabilities Use The Web
- Five Assistive Technologies You Should Be Aware Of
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blind Employees But Were Reluctant to Ask
- A Way With WordsGuidelines For The Portrayal Of People With A Disability
- Make Information Accessible
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- Will Ottawa City Council Today Green-Light a 3rd Pilot with Electric Scooters, Using Vulnerable People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others as Unwilling Guinea Pigs, Even Though E-Scooters Have Been Proven in Ottawa to Endanger Their Safety and Accessibility?
- The Ontario Government Needs to Substantially Reform How It Plans For, Designs, and Funds Building and Infrastructure Construction, to Ensure that Public Money Is Never Used to Create or Perpetuate Disability Barriers
- Disability Advocate Files Complaint with Ottawa’s Integrity Commissioner Because Ottawa’s Transportation Committee Failed to Provide Proper Disability Accommodation When Considering Whether to Support a 3rd Pilot Project With E-Scooters that Endanger People with Disabilities
- Sign Up for Free March 29, 2022 Virtual Conference on the Past, Present and Future of Making Ontario’s Education System Fully Inclusive and Accessible for Students with Disabilities
- Guest Column in Ottawa Area Newspaper Presses Ottawa City Council Not to Use Vulnerable People with Disabilities, Seniors, and Others as Unwilling Guinea Pigs in a Third Pilot Project with Electric Scooters that Are Proven to Be Dangerous
- Brampton Accessibility Advisory Committee Gets Seriously Troubling Presentation on Electric Scooters by Brampton City Staff
- Tell Ottawa City Council Not to Use People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others as Unwilling Guinea Pigs in the Dangerous Third Pilot Project with E-Scooters that Ottawa City Staff Proposes
- Major Potential Step Forward for Students with Disabilities
- Disability Advocates to Tell Ottawa’s Transportation Committee Today Not to Allow E- Scooters
- AODA Alliance Brief Urges City of Ottawa’s Transportation Committee to Reject Wrong-Headed City Staff Proposal to Hold Third Pilot Project with Electric Scooters
- AODA Alliance Writes Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown and Brampton City Council, Urging Them Not to Allow Electric Scooters
- Media Coverage, Health Cards, Electric Scooters, Disability Barriers in schools, and Another Ford Government Accessibility Blunder
- ARCH Disability Law Centre Presses the Ford Government to Ensure that All People with Disabilities Are Effectively Accommodated in the Process for Renewing Expired Ontario Health Cards
- Media Coverage of Ford Government’s Backing Down on the Disability Barrier in Ontario Health Card Renewal- and – More That the Government Needs to Do
- Brampton City Council and Mayor Patrick Brown Should Not Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others by Allowing the Silent Menace of Electric Scooters
- Read the Evidence AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Filed with the Superior Court of Ontario that Shows How the Ford Government’s Online Health Card Renewal Process Discriminates Against People with Disabilities Like Him
- Ford Government Capitulates at the Court House Door
- Ford Government Appoints the Next Independent Review of the Disabilities Act After it Failed for Three Years to Implement the Blistering Report of the Last Independent Review
- Brampton’s plan to unleash e-scooters prompts accessibility & safety concerns, questions about viability
- 3 Years After Ontario Accessibility Report, ‘Little Progress’ Made, Former Lieutenant-Governor Says
- On Youtube, Watch the Agenda with Steve Paikin’s February 3, 2022 Discussion of Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Health Care System Hurting Ontarians with disabilities During the Pandemic
- CBC Report on AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky’s Court Case Against the Ford Government’s Disability Discrimination in Online Health Card Renewal Process Makes it Seem Like the Government is Making it Up as it Goes Along
- Adults With Disabilities in Hospital for COVID-19 Have Worse Outcomes
- Today is The Ford Government’s Troubling Three Year Anniversary of Inaction On the Onley Report, Which Had Urged Bold New Action on Accessibility for 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Calls on the Ford Government to Swiftly Post Online the Final Report of the K-12 Education Standards Development Committee Which It Received Today
- Disability Rights Advocate Files Court Application Today Against Ford Government for Discriminating Against Blind People Like Him
- 2022 Begins with A Blast of New Media Coverage on Different Disability Accessibility Issues
- One Year After Disability-Discriminatory Critical Care Triage Protocol was Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals, Disability Advocates Sound the Alarm About the Danger of Disability Discrimination in Access to Health Care as the Omicron Variant Rapidly Overloads Hospitals
- A Misleading National Post Column Unfairly Misquotes the AODA Alliance, and Claims We are Untrustworthy on the Issue of Robots on Public Sidewalks
- Smorgasbord of Recent Media Coverage of Disability Barriers Shows Why the Ford Government Must Ramp Up Action to Make Ontario Accessible to 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Omicron Surge Amplifies the Need for The Ford Government to Remove the Disability Discrimination From the Critical Care Triage Protocol in Ontario Hospitals
- As Omicron Surges, Ford Government Flagrantly Discriminates Against Many Ontarians with Disabilities in Access to Health Care by Requiring A Driver’s License to Renew Ontario Health Card Online
- Important Victory! Toronto City Council Today Banned Robots from Sidewalks, to Protect People with Disabilities, Seniors, Children and Others – But Where is the Provincial Leadership 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Need from Premier Ford?
- Will Toronto City Council Vote Today to Ban Robots from Sidewalks, to Protect People with Disabilities, Seniors, children and Others?
- More Media Coverage on the Dangers to People with Disabilities that Robots on Sidewalks Would Pose
- New Guest Column by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky in Metroland Papers Explains that Toronto Should Ban Robots on Sidewalks because of the Danger They Pose for People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others
- Sign Up to Tell Ottawa’s Accessibility Advisory Committee to Publicly and Strongly Oppose Electric Scooters that Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others
- Tell Toronto City Council to Ban Robots from Sidewalks, Because They Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors, Children and Others
- On the Eve of the International Day for People with Disabilities, the Ford Government Publicly Admits in the Legislature It Needs to Do a Lot More to Lead Ontario to Become Accessible to People with Disabilities
- Due to Years of Government Foot-Dragging, Ontario Won’t Become Accessible to 2.6 Million People with Disabilities by 2025, Violating Disabilities Act
- Stunning Sampling of 25 News Articles Show Serious Dangers that Electric Scooters Pose to the Public, Including People with Disabilities, Seniors and Children
- A Troubling Setback Two Decades Ago Today in the Campaign for Strong Accessibility Legislation Sowed the Seeds for Later Progress
- The AODA Alliance Sends a Detailed Brief with 53 Recommendations to the Post-Secondary Education Standards Development Committee to Make Post-Secondary Education Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- 1,000 Days After Receiving The Onley Report’s Call for Major New Actions to Make Ontario Accessible to People with Disabilities, the Ford Government Responds to Questions in the Legislature with Non-Answers and Evasions
- 1,000 Days Ago Today, Doug Ford’s Government Received the David Onley Report, Calling for Strong New Action to Tear Down Disability Barriers – Where Is Premier Ford When We Need His Help the Most?
- An Abysmal 1,000 Days of Inaction by the Ford Government on the David Onley Report on Accessibility for People with Disabilities, Says AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky’s the Toronto Star’s Metroland Newspapers Guest Column
- Disability Advocates Call on Ford Government Not to Endanger People with Disabilities and Others By Allowing Robots on Public Sidewalks
- Ontario’s Enhanced Vaccine Certificate System Not Accessible to Marginalized People, Advocates Say
- Ford Government Extends to November 1, 2021 the Deadline for Sending In Feedback on the Disability Barriers Facing Students with Disabilities in Ontario Schools, Colleges or Universities
- Divisional Court Declines to Rule on Argument that Ontario’s Accessibility Minister Violated Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- A New Captioned Video Gives You a Practical Guide to the Duty to Accommodate People with Disabilities
- Today 10 AM Court Virtual Hearing Livestream: Blind Disability Advocate David Lepofsky Argues Disability Rights Case Against Accessibility Minister Raymond Cho
- AODA Alliance: Monday September 27, 2021 10 AM Court Virtual Hearing
- After the Federal Election, New Opportunities for People with Disabilities in Canada and a Pressing Need for the Media to Take a Hard Look at the Short Shrift It Too Often Gave Disability Issues
- Neither Election Front-Runner, Trudeau or O’Toole, Ever Ended Up Answering the AODA Alliance’s Request for Disability Accessibility Election Pledges – And Other Last Minute Election News
- On the Eve of the Federal Election, Tories Will Try to Answer the AODA Alliance Request for Federal Election Commitments
- Some Media Cover the Federal Election’s Disability Accessibility Issues and/or the Inaccessibility of Mail-In Ballots
- Blind Lawyer Says Lack of Accessible, Private Voting Options Violates Charter
- Canadians With Disabilities Say They’re Missing from the Election Discussion
- In this Close Election, Will Erin O’Toole Stand By the Tories’ 2018 Pledge in the House of Commons to Strengthen the Accessible Canada Act?
- Concerns Raised Over Accessibility Ahead of Digital Vaccine Passport Rollout in Ontario
- Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh Is First and Only National Leader to Pledge to Strengthen the Accessible Canada Act. What Will the Other Parties Pledge in This Election to Make Canada Accessible for Over 6 Million People with Disabilities by 2040?
- Ford Government Must Ensure the New Vaccine Passport System Does Not Create New Barriers for People with Disabilities
- New Federal Liberal Party Platform Offers None of the Commitments on Disability Accessibility that the AODA Alliance Requested
- Under 3 Weeks Before the Federal Election, None of the Party Leaders Answered the AODA Alliance’s Letter Seeking 12 Commitments to Tear Down Barriers Facing 6 Million People with Disabilities in Canada, According to New Guest Column in Toronto Area Local Newspapers
- After Winning the Battle in Toronto Last Spring, AODA Alliance and Other Disability Advocates Now Call on London City Council Not to Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors and Others by Allowing Electric Scooters
- What Do Major Federal Political Parties Commit to Do in Their Published Election Platforms to Make Canada Accessible for Six Million People with Disabilities?
- Another Media Report on Huge Problems with the Rick Hansen Foundation Private Accessibility “Certification” Program
- Ford Government Belatedly Extended to September 13, 2021 the Deadline for Sending Feedback on Recommendations to Remove Disability Barriers from Ontario’s Health Care System
- A Disability Perspective on the Enduring Legacy of the Late Premier Bill Davis
- Pandemic-Era Patios Still too Often Inaccessible, Disability Advocates Say
- CBC Reports on Troubling Disability Barrier at Canada’s Wonderland
- Tell the Health Care Standards Development Committee If You Support the AODA Alliance’s Recommendations on What the Promised Health Care Accessibility Standard Should Include, Spelled Out in the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief
- With a Federal Election Impending, AODA Alliance Asks Party Leaders for Election Commitments on Accessibility for People with Disabilities in Canada
- With a Federal Election Looming, Two Captioned Videos Explain Why Canada Needs a Strong Accessible Canada Act and Why the One that Passed in 2019 Needs to Be Strengthened
- Please Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief to the Health Care Standards Development Committee on the Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Health Care System
- Attend CNIB’s July 27, 2021 Virtual Town Hall on Dangers that Electric Scooters Pose for People with Disabilities if London Ontario Allows Them
- Send Your Feedback on the Initial Report/Recommendations by the Post-Secondary Education Standards Development Committee on What Must Be Done to Make Ontario Colleges and Universities Accessible for Students with Disabilities
- Check Out the New Video that Explains the K-12 Education Standards Development Committee’s 185-Page Initial Report and Gives Tips on How to Give Feedback
- Help Make Ontario Schools Accessible for Students with Disabilities Action Kit
- Tell the Ford Government, School Boards and Others To Use Recommended New Standard for Ensuring Accessibility of the Built Environment
- At the AODA Alliance’s Request, CTV Commendably Corrects an Inaccurate Online News Report About Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Plans
- With CBC’s Strong Commitment to Diversity and Equity in Its Programming, Why Won’t Its Flagship National Radio Program “The Current” Cover Disability Discrimination Dangers in Critical Care Triage Plans During the COVID-19 Pandemic?
- Ford Government Finally Makes Public the Initial Recommendations by the K-12 Education Standards Development Committee on How to Make Ontario Schools Accessible for Students with Disabilities
- In a Detailed Report Card Delivered During National AccessAbility Week, the Ford Government Gets a Blistering “F” Grade for Its Three Year Record Since Taking Office on Action to Make Ontario Accessible for 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Disability Rights Advocate Resorts to Freedom of Information Application to Unearth the Ford Government’s Secret Plans for Critical Care Triage if Overcrowded Hospitals Can’t Serve All Critically-Ill Patients
- Ontario is Not Out of the Woods When It Comes to the Danger of Disability Discrimination in Critical Care Triage
- AODA Alliance Writes Toronto Mayor John Tory and City Council to Thank Them for Maintaining the Ban on Electric Scooters
- Send Us Your Feedback on the Initial or Draft Recommendations for What the Promised Health Care Accessibility Standard Should Include that Were Prepared by the Government-Appointed Health Care Standards Development Committee
- Disability Rights Advocate Launches Court Application Against the Ford Government for Violating the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- New Toronto Star Guest Column Blasts the Ford Government’s Critical Care Triage Plans and the Government’s Harmful Secrecy Surrounding Those Plans
- Malhotra and Dojeiji: Vaccine Policy is Ignoring People With Disabilities
- New Captioned Video Tells the Whole Disability Discrimination Story in Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Plan and More Media Reports Reveal More Cause for Worry
- After a Major Outpouring from People with Disabilities, Toronto City Council Unanimously Votes to Leave in Place the Ban on Electric Scooters
- Improper e-Scooter Parking Causing Accessibility Issues in Kelowna
- Toronto City Council Must Reject E-Scooter Corporate Lobbyists’ Attempt to Delay the May 5, 2021 Vote on City Staff’s Recommendation not to Conduct an E-Scooter Pilot Project
- In One Day, Advocacy Action on 3 Accessibility Fronts- Critical Care Triage, Electric Scooters and B.C. Disabilities Act
- After a Major Outpouring from People with Disabilities, Toronto Infrastructure Committee Unanimously Votes to Leave in Place the Ban on Electric Scooters – Next Week Toronto City Council Will Decide
- Disability Advocates to Present Today at Virtual Meeting of Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee to Oppose Allowing Electric Scooters
- if Hospital Overloads Require Critical Care Triage, Will the Ford Government Agree to Tell the Public the Daily Numbers of Patients Refused Life-Saving Critical Care They Need?
- Feeding Frenzy by Corporate Lobbyist Continues at Toronto City Hall to Pressure City Council to Permit Electric Scooters Despite Their Proven Dangers to Vulnerable People with Disabilities, Seniors, Children and Others
- As The Ford Government Back-Pedals and Scrambles to Re-Invent Its Response to the COVID-19 Crisis, Will It Make Public and Fix Its Disability-Discriminatory Critical Care Triage Plans?
- Solicitor General Brushes Off Disability Advocate Concerns About Triage Protocol
- Great News! New Toronto City Staff Report Recommends that Toronto Not Allow Electric Scooters – Sign Up to Tell Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee’s April 28, 2021 Virtual Meeting To Say No To E-Scooters
- National CBC News Covers Disability Discrimination Problems with Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Protocol — Protocol’s Defenders Make Transparently Bogus Arguments to Defend It
- Six Bio-Ethicists on Ontario Government’s “Bioethics Table” Confirm Ongoing Concerns Raised by Disability Organizations regarding the Discriminatory and Secret Plans for the Triaging of Critical Care
- Register for April 20, 2021 Virtual Public Forum on Disability Concerns with Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Plans – Plan to Tell The Virtual April 28, 2021 Toronto Infrastructure and Environment Committee Meeting Not to Allow Electric Scooters
- As COVID-19 Infections Hit Record Highs and Hospital ICUs Reach the Brink, Five Bioethicists on The Ford Government’s Bioethics Table Release a Public Statement Revealing Major Concerns with Ontario’s Plans for Triage of Critical Care, that Echo Disability Community Objections
- More Advocacy Action, More Media, and More Ford Government Secrecy on Ontario’s Disability-Discriminatory Plans for Critical Care Triage If Hospital ICUs Run Out of Space for All Patients Needing Life-Saving Care
- Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons Creates More Confusion for Doctors and Patients, and Doesn’t Answer Key Questions About Disability Discrimination in Ontario Critical Care Triage Protocol
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Again Commendably Raises Human Rights Concerns with Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Plans, While the Ontario College of Physicians And surgeons Appears to Wrongly — Green Light Those Plans The AODA Alliance Responds!
- Danger of Disability Discrimination in Access to Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Grows as Overloaded Ontario Hospitals Near the Breaking Point
- As the COVID-19 Pandemic Again Worsens, Here’s Additional Media Coverage of the Ford Government’s Unwarranted Secrecy Over Ontario’s Seriously Flawed Critical Care Triage Protocol and Plans
- Please Write to the City of Toronto to Support the AODA Alliance’s New, Comprehensive Brief on Why Toronto Should Not Lift the Ban on Electric Scooters
- One Year After the First Secret Ontario Critical Care Triage Protocol Was Sent to Ontario Hospitals, the Threat of Critical Care Discrimination Against Some Patients with Disabilities Remains A Live Worry
- Come to a March 9, 2021 Virtual Town Hall on Helping Stop Toronto from Allowing Electric Scooters that Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors, children and Others
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Echoes More Serious Concerns with the Ontario Critical Care Triage Plan – Will the Ford Government Start to Listen This Time?
- New Report Reveals Frightening New Problems with the Ford Government’s Plans for Rationing Life-Saving Critical Medical Care if Hospitals get Overwhelmed by Another COVID-19 Surge
- AODA Alliance to Present Tomorrow at Virtual Meeting of the City of Toronto’s Accessibility Advisory Committee to Oppose Allowing Electric Scooters
- AODA Alliance Submits a Short, Punchy Brief to the Toronto Accessibility Advisory Committee, Calling for Toronto Not to Lift the Much-Needed Ban on Electric Scooters
- Short New Caption Video Explains Why Electric Scooters Endanger People with Disabilities and Others and Gives You Tips to Help Keep Them Out of Toronto
- Ontario’s Life-and-Death Emergency Triage Protocol Remains a Work In Progress
- If the Ford Government’s Cabinet Were to Pass an Order Letting Doctors Withdraw Critical Medical Care from a Patient Over the Patient’s Objection, It Would Be Recklessly Tap-Dancing in a Constitutional Minefield
- For over 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, Sunday January 31, 2021 Will Be The Ford Government’s Sad Two Year Anniversary of Inaction On Disability Accessibility
- Today is the 40th Anniversary of Parliament Agreeing to Guarantee A Constitutional Right to Equality to People with Disabilities
- The Ford Government’s January 13, 2021 Critical Care Triage Protocol Would Make Every Triage Doctor a Law Unto Themselves, Denying Due Process or Fair Procedure to Patients Whose Lives Are In Jeopardy
- CBC Program Reveals Disturbing Fact that, Far From Objective Scientific Decisions, Ontario Critical Care Triage Could Involve Doctors Guesstimating and Improvising When Deciding Which Patients Should be Refused Life-Saving Critical Medical Care They Need
- Even More Reason to Worry About Secret Ontario Plans Regarding Rationing or Triage of Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Is Revealed in Two Newspaper Articles and a Letter Secretly Sent to Ontario Hospitals
- Ontario Urged to Suspend Need for Consent Before Withdrawing Life Support When COVID Crushes Hospitals
- More Media Coverage of Danger that the Ford Government’s Critical Medical Care Triage Poses for Ontarians with disabilities
- Ontario Patients to Be Ranked for Life-Saving Care Should ICUs Become Full, Documents Show
- We Publicly Post New Secret Ford Government Directions to Ontario Hospitals on How to Decide Who Lives and Who Dies if Life-Saving Critical Care Must Soon Be Triaged – Serious Human Rights Dangers for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Any Time, You Can Watch The Agenda with Steve Paikin’s Panel on Disability Discrimination Risks If Life-Saving Critical Medical Care Must Soon Be Rationed – and – Excellent Canadian Press Article on This Triage Issue
- Watch TVO’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” Tonight at 8 or 11 PM
- Remembering a Major Setback on the Road to Equality for People with Disabilities Forty Years Ago Today- But One that Was Thankfully Reversed a Mere 16 Days Later!
- Hospitals Are Near the Breaking Point, but Only “The Pointer”, a Local Mississauga Online News Publication, Has Reported How the Ford Government Has Announced No Plans to Ensure that Any Triage or Rationing of Life-Saving Medical Care Won?t Discriminate Against Patients with Disabilities
- Already In ‘Crisis Mode’, Ontario Hospitals Have No Protocol for Who Gets Priority Treatment, Human Rights Advocates Say
- Looking Back at the Stressful 2020 and Forward to the Hopeful 2021 – a Year-End Report to Our Many Grassroots Accessibility Supporters from the AODA Alliance
- Just-Revealed Previously Secret Recommendations for Rationing Critical Medical Care in Ontario that the Ford Government is Considering Are Frightening for People with Disabilities
- Yesterday’s Roundtable on Critical Care Triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hosted by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Leads the AODA Alliance to Again Write Health Minister Christine Elliott to Raise Important New Issues
- Send Us Your Feedback on the Information and Communication Standards Development Committee’s Final Recommendations on What is Needed to Strengthen the 2011 Information and Communication Accessibility Standard, Enacted under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- The Ontario Bioethics Table’s Secret September 11, 2020 Recommendations on How to Ration or “Triage” Life-Saving Critical Medical Care if COVID-19 Cases Overload Ontario Hospitals are Finally Revealed, and Incorporate a Number of Disability Advocates’ Proposals – But We’re Not Out of the Triage Woods Yet!
- Share with Others the Youtube Link to Yesterday’s Important Panel on TV Ontario’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” Revealing the Hardships Facing Many Ontario Students with Disabilities During Distance Education and While Attending Re-Opened Schools
- Watch TVO’s ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin’ Tonight at 8 or 11 PM for an Interview on Whether Distance Education and Re-Opened Schools are Meeting the Learning Needs of Students with Disabilities
- What Did Disability Advocates Tell Canada’s Parliament 40 Years Ago This Fall to Help Win an Historic Amendment to the Charter of Rights to Protect Equality for People with Disabilities?
- Yesterday, Disability Concerns About the Risk of Disability Discrimination if Critical Medical Care Must be Rationed Was Raised In the Ontario Legislature, the Media and Premier Ford’s News Conference
- 64 Organizations Call for Action Now to ensure Patients will Not Face Disability Discrimination if COVID Surge Requires Critical Care Rationing
- Tell Us What Successes or Barriers Students with Disabilities Are Experiencing This Fall at School or During Distance Education
- It’s Time for the Ford Government to Agree to Create a Built Environment Accessibility Standard under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- New captioned Video is Unveiled Today on Hardships People with Disabilities Face During the COVID-19 Pandemic, To Mark This Sunday, the 26th Anniversary of the Birth of Ontario’s Grassroots Movement for Disability Accessibility
- Two New Captioned Online Videos Show Ongoing Risk of Disability Discrimination in Hospitals if the Skyrocketing COVID-19 Surge and Feared Overload of Hospitals Forces Rationing or Triage of Critical Care Beds
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Corroborates that the Ford Government withdrew the Government’s Widely-Condemned Critical Medical Care Triage Protocol
- Ford Government Says it Rescinded its Widely-Condemned March 28, 2020 Protocol Directing Which Patients Will be Refused Life-Saving Critical Medical Care if the COVID-19 Surge Exceeds Hospital Capacity – But Won’t Reveal How It Will Fill that Vacuum
- AODA Alliance Asks Toronto Mayor John Tory to Stand up for People with Disabilities and to Stand up to Corporate Lobbyists for Electric Scooter Rental Companies who are Inundating City Hall
- Ford Government’s October 29, 2020 Virtual Media Event, Heralded to Unveil an Announcement on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities, Announces Nothing New
- Ford Government’s Own Bioethics Table Urges It to Cancel Its controversial March 28 Directions to Hospitals on Which Patients to Refuse Critical Medical Care if the COVID-19 Pandemic Overloads Hospitals
- New Report Reveals Corporate Lobbyists Feeding Frenzy At City Hall to Pressure Toronto City Council to Lift Ban on Electric Scooters That Endanger People with Disabilities
- Taking a Few Moments to Reflect Back Today on Some Important Milestones in the Campaign for Accessibility for People with Disabilities
- Ford Government Admits It Sent Out An Inaccessible Broadcast Email Yesterday to Announce Its Upcoming Announcement on Accessibility
- In A Cruel Irony, the Ford Government Sends an Inaccessible Invitation to an Upcoming Announcement on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Update: Check Out Two New Captioned Online Videos
- Ford Government Refuses to Make Public Its Bioethics Table Report Recommending Which Seriously-Ill COVID-19 Patients Should Be Refused Critical Medical Care They Need if the Surge in COVID-19 Cases Exceeds Hospital Capacity
- Ontario NDP Presses the Ford Government to Lift the Veil of Secrecy on Key Documents Addressing How Life-and-Death Medical Triage Decisions Will be Made if the Second Wave of COVID-19 Exceeds Ontario Hospital Capacity
- AODA Alliance submits A Brief to Accessibility Standards Canada Listing the Federal Accessibility Standards We Need the Federal Government to Now Develop and Enact
- What Is the Ford Government Doing to Ensure Patients with Disabilities Don’t Face Discrimination in Access to Life-Saving Critical care If the Surge in COVID-19 Cases Overloads Ontario’s Hospitals?
- AODA Alliance calls on the Ontario Government to Appoint an Associate Deputy Minister of Education, to Create and Implement a Provincial Plan to ensure that A Third of a Million Students with Disabilities Are Fully and Safely Included in School Re-Opening
- What is the Ford Government Doing to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act?
- Landmark Toronto Star Guest Column by the Authors of the Three Successive Government-Appointed Independent Reviews of Ontario’s Disabilities Act Demands Immediate Strong New Government Action on Serious Hardships Facing People with Disabilities
- Action Kit: Protect Torontonians with Disabilities from the Dangers of Electric Scooters
- More Media Coverage of the Stress and Uncertainty facing Parents of Students with Disabilities on the Eve of the Labour Day Weekend
- ARCH Disability Law Centre Identifies Even More Problems with the Revised Draft Protocol for Deciding which COVID-19 Patients, Needing Critical Medical Care, Would Not Get That Care If there Is a Future Shortage of Critical Care Beds
- Ensuring that Patients with Disabilities Dont Face Discrimination in Access to Critical Medical Care If There is a Second Wave of COVID-19 that Overwhelms Ontario Hospitals-A new Brief by the AODA Alliance Is Made Public Today
- Watch the Archived Online video of the 3rd COVID-19 Town Hall by the AODA Alliance and the Ontario Autism Coalition Entitled: Preparing for School Re-Opening Action Tips for Parents of Students with Disabilities
- Students With Disabilities Face More Obstacles Returning to Class: Advocates
- 11am Eastern Today, Grassroots Virtual Town Hall Will Give Anxious Parents of One Third of a Million Ontario Students with Disabilities Practical Tips to Prepare for School Re-Openings
- The Ford Government’s Announced Measures for Students with Disabilities Largely Leaves it to Each of 72 School Boards to Figure Out What to Do to Fully and Safely Include Them in School Re-opening
- On Friday, August 21, 2020 at 11 AM Eastern Time, Watch Preparing for School Re-Opening
- What are the Ford Government’s Plans for Ensuring that One Third of a Million Students with Disabilities are Fully and Safely Included During School Re-Opening Next Month?
- An Important New Report to the Ontario Government Calls on the Government and School Boards to Take Action Now to Ensure that One Third of a Million Students with Disabilities are Able to Fully Participate in Ontario Schools as They Re-Open This Fall
- An Interim Victory for Disability Advocates – Toronto City Council Directs City Staff to Investigate Dangers to People with Disabilities If Electric Scooters are Allowed
- More Overwhelming Proof that Electric Scooters Endanger Public Safety
- AODA Alliance Endorses ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Brief that Shows in Even More Detail How the Ford Government’s Revised Draft Medical Triage Protocol, Now Undergoing Consultation, Would Discriminate Against COVID-19 Patients with Disabilities If There Were Not Enough Ventilators for All Patients Needing Them
- Tell Toronto City Council Not to Subject Canada’s Largest City to the Dangers, Personal Injuries and New Disability Barriers that Electric Scooters Cause
- New Report Reveals that At Majority of Ontarios School Boards, Each School Principal Is a Law Unto Themselves, With Arbitrary Power to Exclude a Student From School Real Risk of a Rash of Exclusion of Some Students with Disabilities When Schools Re-Open
- In A Second COVID-19 Wave If There Aren’t Enough Ventilators for All Patients Needing Them, A new Draft Ontario Medical Triage Protocol Would Continue to Discriminate Against COVID-19Patients with Disabilities
- Toronto Infrastructure Committee Told E-Scooters Would Endanger the Public
- AODA Alliance to Present Tomorrow at Virtual Meeting of Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee to Oppose Allowing Electric Scooters
- With the COVID-19 Crisis Creating a Nightmare for Us All, Why Does the City of Toronto’s Infrastructure Committee Think It’s More Important to Meet to Discuss Allowing Electric Scooters in Toronto?
- More Helpful Media Coverage and More Organizations Endorse the AODA Alliance Brief to the Ford Government on How to Meet the Needs of Students with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
- The Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation OSSTF and Ten Disability Organizations Have Already Endorsed the AODA Alliance’s 19 Recommendations on What the Ontario Government Must Now Do to Meet the Needs of A Third of A Million Students with Disabilities in Ontario Schools
- Please Email the Ontario Government to Support the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on Measures Needed to Meet the Needs of Students with Disabilities Now and During the Transition to Schools Re-Opening
- Send Us Your Feedback Very Quickly on Our Draft Brief to the Ontario Government on the Urgent Needs of K-12 Students with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Will Ottawa City Council Today Vote to Conduct a Deeply Troubling Experiment on Ottawa Residents and Visitors By Allowing Electric Scooters that Endanger People with Disabilities and Others?
- To Honour National AccessAbility Week, the Ford Government Announces Nothing New to Address the Unmet Urgent Needs of 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Watch the Captioned May 27, 2020 Online Fireside Chat with AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky and Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner on the Impact of COVID-19 on Ontarians with Disabilities
- On Global Accessibility Awareness Day, the AODA Alliance Again Writes Ontario’s Education Minister and TVO’s Vice President to Try to Get the Urgent Learning Needs of Students with Disabilities Met
- Ford Government Acknowledges Ontario Students with Disabilities Face Added Hardships Trying to learn at Home During COVID-19 But Announces No Comprehensive Plan to Remove the Added Disability Barriers that Online Learning Creates for Them
- The ARCH Disability Law Centre Sends the Ford Government An Excellent Analysis of the Government’s Seriously Flawed March 28, 2020 Medical Triage Protocol
- Premier Ford Pledged to Protect the Most Vulnerable During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Watch TVO’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin” Tonight at 8 or 11 PM for an Interview on the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on People with Disabilities
- The AODA Alliance Calls on TVO to Take Prompt Action to Fix its Educational Web Contents Accessibility Problems
- Pressing Need for the Ford Government to Ensure that Hospital Patients with Communication Disabilities Face No Barriers to Using Technology that Lets Them Effectively Communicate
- Yesterday’s Virtual Town Hall Reveals Serious Hardships Facing Hundreds of Thousands of Ontario Students with Disabilities and Makes Practical Recommendations for Urgent Action
- Ontario’s Ministry of Education Must Now Meet the Urgent Needs of A Third of a Million Students with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Crisis
- On Monday, May 4, 2020 at 3 pm Eastern Time, Login and Take Part in a New Online Virtual Town Hall on How Teachers and Parents Can Try to Meet the Learning Needs of Students with Disabilities While Schools are Closed Due to the COVID-19 Crisis
- AODA Alliance Asks Ontario Education Minister Stephen Lecce to Take Important Actions to Meet the Urgent Needs of Students with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Crisis
- The AODA Alliance and Ontario Autism Coalition Are Considering Organizing An Online Virtual Town Hall Event on How to Effectively Teach Students with Different Disabilities at Home During the COVID-19 Crisis – We?re Looking for Your Suggestions on Who Would be Good Speakers
- Still More Media Reports Reveal Disproportionate Harm to Ontarians with Disabilities Due to the Ontario Government’s Failure to Effectively Plan for Urgent Disability Needs in its COVID-19 Emergency Efforts
- Ontario’s New Democratic Party and the Ontario Human Rights Commission Press the Ford Government to Take Substantially More Action to Address Ontarians with Disabilities’ Urgent Needs During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Disability Community Wins Interim Step Forward
- Toronto Star Runs A Guest Column by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on the need for the Ontario Government to Come Up with a Plan to Meet the Urgent Needs of 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities During the COVID-19 crisis
- Media Reports Show Yet More Problems Facing People with Disabilities During the COVID-19 crisis – The Need for Urgent Government Action Is Swiftly Ballooning
- Tell Doctors, Nurses, EMTs or Others You Know That Work in the Health Care System About the AODA Alliance’s Discussion Paper on Ensuring that Medical Triage or Rationing of Health Care Services During the COVID-19 Crisis Does Not Discriminate Against Patients with Disabilities
- A Discussion Paper on Ensuring that Medical Triage or Rationing of Health Care Services During the COVID-19 Crisis Does Not Discriminate Against Patients with Disabilities
- More Media on the Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis on People with Disabilities
- Major Disability Organizations Unite to Voice Serious Fears About Supposedly “Draft” Ontario Protocol for Rationing Critical Medical Care
- Virtual Public Forum Reveals Serious Hardships Facing People with Disabilities During COVID-19 Crisis and Makes Practical Recommendations for Urgent Government Action
- Governments Must Now Meet the Urgent Needs of Millions of People with Disabilities During the COVID-19 Crisis
- Log In Tuesday, April 7, 2020 from 10 to 11:30 AM Eastern Time for an Important Virtual Public Forum on What Government Must Do During the COVID-19 Crisis to Protect the Urgent Needs of Ontarians with Disabilities Convened by the AODA Alliance and the Ontario Autism Coalition
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Doug Ford to Urge Actions to Protect the Urgent Needs of Ontarians with disabilities During the Covid Crisis
- Disability Advocacy Coalition Calls for Strong Action by Governments At All Levels to Address the Emergency Needs of People with Disabilities during the Covid Crisis
- What Barriers Do Students with Disabilities Face in Post-Secondary Education in Ontario? Send Us Feedback on Our Draft Framework for a Post-Secondary Education Accessibility Standard
- AODA Alliance’s Toronto Star Guest Column Honours the Memory of the Late Senator David Smith, An Important Hero in the Campaign for Accessibility for People with Disabilities – And Other News
- The QP Briefing Podcast: Welcoming David Lepofsky
- The Ford Government Claims to Be Leading Ontario By Its Example on Achieving Accessibility for 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, But a Closer Look Shows That It Is Leading By a Poor Example
- What Must Be Done to Make Ontario’s Health Care System Fully Accessible to Patients with Disabilities? Check Out the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Framework for the Promised Health Care Accessibility Standard
- Montreal Halts Pilot Project that Allowed Electric Scooters Due to Rampant Violations
- Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate Steven Del Duca Only Makes Four of the Ten Full Commitments on Accessibility for 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities that the AODA Alliance Seeks, and Gives Weaker Commitments on the Other Six Issues
- Help Us Get Towns and Cities Around Ontario to Leave in Place the Ban on Electric Scooters (E-scooters)
- The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Asks Toronto Mayor John Tory to Help Ensure that Canada’s Largest City Does Not Lift the Ban on Electric Scooters
- The City of Toronto’s Municipal Accessibility Advisory Committee Passes A Strong Unanimous Motion Urging Toronto’s Mayor John Tory and City Council to Leave in Place the Ban on Electric Scooters
- Michael Coteau is First Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Write Us with All the Detailed Commitments on Accessibility We Seek
- For 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, Today is a Frustrating Anniversary of Inaction by the Ford Government
- Ford Government’s Long Delayed Response to the Blistering Report of the David Onley Independent Review of the Implementation of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Law Offers Thin Gruel to 2.6 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Premier Ford Ducks Our Request to Meet, and Instead Has His Accessibility Minister Send Us a Letter Saying Nothing New
- Major Disability Organizations’ Open Letter to the Ford Government and Ontario Municipalities
- More Media Coverage Focuses on the Dangers to People with Disabilities and Others that the Ford Government Has Created by Its New Regulation that Permits Electric Scooters in Ontario
- AODA Alliance Sends an Open Letter to the Candidates for Leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party, Seeking Specific Commitments on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Send Us Feedback on the Draft AODA Alliance Framework for the Health Care Accessibility Standard
- Disability Activists Mark a Quarter Century of Tenacious Advocacy for Accessibility for Over 2 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Tomorrow 4-5 pm EST Watch Live Stream of the Birthday Party for the 25th Anniversary of the Birth of the AODA Movement at Queen’s Park
- Today Is the AODA Movement’s 25th Birthday!
- Ford Government Endangers Safety and Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities in E-Scooter Pilot Regulation
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Ford to Ask for a Meeting and AODA Alliance to Appear Tomorrow on TVO’s “The Agenda with Steve Paikin”
- Help Us Make Information and Communication Accessible to Ontarians with Disabilities
- Is the Ford Government Obeying the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act? – And Other News from the Accessibility Front
- AODA Alliance Asks Federal Party Leaders For a New Bill to Strengthen the Accessible Canada Act
- Come to A Birthday Party On December 3, 2019 (the International Day for People with Disabilities) at Queen’s Park to Celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Birth of the Non-Partisan Grassroots Movement for Accessibility Legislation in Ontario!
- Accessibility Advocate David Lepofsky Urging People to Highlight Access Deficiencies
- Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief to the Information and Communication Standards Development Committee on Needed Improvements to the 2011 Information and Communication Accessibility Standard
- What Is the Doug Ford Government Planning for Its Widely-Criticized Proposal to Allow Unlicensed, Uninsured Electric Scooters in Ontario?
- Come to A November 5, 2019 Windsor Area Public Forum on Accessibility
- A Non-Partisan Look at the 2019 Federal Election Results from a Disability Accessibility Perspective
- Federal Liberals Promise to Use a Disability Lens in All Government Decisions – View This Pledge Through the Lens of Some Helpful Context
- Non-Partisan Issue-By-Issue Comparison of the Positions of the 6 Major Federal Political Parties on Achieving Accessibility for Over 6 Million People with Disabilities in Canada
- Liberal Party of Canada Answers Request for Election Commitments on Achieving an Accessible Canada for Over 6 Million People with Disabilities
- Come to a Toronto Area Public Forum on the Federal Elections’ Disability Issues on October 16
- AODA Alliance Finalizes and Makes Public Its Proposed Framework for the Promised Education Accessibility Standard
- The British Columbia Government Commits to Provincial Accessibility Legislation and Seeks Public Input on A Proposed Framework for a BC Disabilities Act – Read the AODA Alliance’s Submission to the BC Government
- Why Haven’t Any of the Federal Parties Except the NDP Answered the AODA Alliance’s July 18, 2019 Letter, Seeking Election Commitments on Promoting Accessibility for Over Six Million People with Disabilities in Canada?
- More Media on the E-scooters Issue – and – On September 25, Attend Either a Federal Candidates’ Forum on the Accessible Canada Act or the TTC’s Public Forum on Accessible Transit
- Federal Election Action Kit Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in Canada’s 2019 Federal Election!
- What Pledges Will the Federal Party Leaders Make in This Election to Make Canada Accessible for Over 6 Million People with Disabilities?
- Send Us Your Feedback on Our Draft Framework for what the Promised K-12 Education Accessibility Standard Should Include
- Tell the Ford Government if You Support the AODA Alliance’s Brief and Recommendations on the Government’s Proposal to Hold a 5-Year Pilot Project to Allow Electric Scooters in Ontario
- AODA Alliance Files A Brief to Ontario’s Doug Ford Government, Urging that Ontario Should Not Allow E-scooters
- The Ford Government Issues a Very Weak Policy Directive to Ontario School Boards on Addressing Requests by a Student with a Disability to Bring Their Service Animal to School
- Quickly Send Us Feedback On Our Draft Brief to the Ontario Government’s Rushed Public Consultation on Its Proposal to Hold a Five-Year Pilot Project to Allow Electric Scooters in Ontario
- The Ford Government Admits It Planned a “Compromise of Road Safety” and the Opportunity for Businesses to Expand When It designed Its Controversial Proposed 5-Year Pilot to Allow Motorized Electric Scooters on Ontario Roads, According to a Media Report – Yet The Government Should Never Compromise On Public Safety
- Disability Advocacy Gets Action!
- Ford Government Quietly Conducts Inexcusably Rushed 2-Day Public Consultation Just Before the Labour Day Long Weekend on a Troubling Proposal to Allow Electric Scooters in Ontario
- What Barriers to Information and Communication Do You Face?
- Almost 8 Months After Receiving the Blistering Onley Report, Both Premier Doug Ford and His Accessibility Minister Write the AODA Alliance But Offer Nothing New to Strengthen the Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s Beleaguered Disabilities Act
- The Doug Ford Government’s Controversial Plan to Divert $1.3 Million into the Rick Hansen Foundation’s Private Accessibility Certification Program Is Plagued with Even More Problems Than Earlier Revealed, according to the AODA Alliance’s New Supplemental Report Made Public Today
- Ontario Should Move Faster on Tearing Down Barriers
- A New Toronto Star Editorial Blasts the Ford Government for Moving So Slowly on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities and Echoes the AODA Alliance’s Objections to Doug Ford’s Diverting 1.3 Million Dollars to the Rick Hansen Foundation’s Problematic Private Accessibility Certification Program
- Great Conventional Media and Social Media Coverage Highlight Serious Problems with the Doug Ford Government Plan to Divert 1.3 Million Dollars to the Rick Hansen Foundation’s Controversial Private Accessibility Certification Program
- Advocates Slam Ontario Plan to Rate Accessibility of Buildings
- Join in Our New “Dial Doug” Campaign! — A Grassroots Blitz, Unveiled Today, to Get the Doug Ford Government to Make Ontario Open for Over 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Writes Federal Party Leaders Seeking Election Commitments on Advancing the Cause of Accessibility for Over 6 Million People with Disabilities in Canada
- The Accessible Canada Act Comes into Force Today – Download and Read the Legislation in English or French
- In a Compelling Open Letter, 21 Disability Organizations Unite to Call on the Doug Ford Government to Announce a Plan to Implement the Report on Ontario’s Disabilities Act Submitted by Former Lieutenant Governor David Onley Almost Six Months Ago
- How Ontario’s Human Rights Tribunal Went Off the Rails in an Important Disability Accessibility Case
- The Ford Government Gets A Failing Grade on Making Progress on Disability Accessibility After One year in Power
- The Ford Government Defeated a Proposed Resolution in the Legislature that Called for a Plan to Implement David Onley’s Report on Strengthening the Implementation of Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- During National Access Abilities Week, Ontario NDP Accessibility Critic Joel Harden Presented a Proposed Resolution for Debate in the Legislature that Called On the Ford Government to Create a Plan to Implement the Report of David Onley’s Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- A Toronto Star News Report and New Editorial Together Show Why the Ford Government Must Now Announce a Comprehensive Plan to Substantially Improve the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Failures in Air Travel in Canada – Yet More Proof that the Canadian Transportation Agency has been Ineffective at Ensuring Accessibility for Air Travel Passengers with Disabilities in Canada
- Canada’s Parliament Has Now Passed Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act – Here Are Seven Preliminary Reflections
- An Important Victory – The Trudeau Government Announced Yesterday that It will Vote in the House of Commons to Ratify All the Senate’s Amendments to Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Despite No Announced Plans to Implement the David Onley AODA Independent Review Report, the Ford Government Gives 1.3 Million Dollars to Help Finance a Private Accessibility Certification Program — A Use of Public Money We Don’t Support
- In a powerful Open Letter sent to the House of Commons, An Extraordinary Lineup of Twenty-Eight Disability Organizations Unite to Press for the House of Commons’ Ratification of All the Amendments that the Senate Just Passed to Strengthen Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Canada’s Senate Passed Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act, on Third Reading Last Evening, Replete with All the Amendments that the Senate’s Standing Committee Made to Improve the Bill
- 102 Days after the Ford Government Received David Onley’s Independent Review of the AODA, the Government Has Still Not Announced a Detailed Plan to Implement It
- The Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs’ Chair and Vice-Chair Make Strong Speeches in the Senate to Support the Committee’s Amendments to Improve Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- More Specifics on the Amendments to Bill C-81 (the Proposed Accessible Canada Act) that the Senate’s Standing Committee Passed and that We Want the House of Commons to Ratify
- Help Our New Blitz to Get the House of Commons to Swiftly Ratify All the Amendments to Bill C-81(the Proposed Accessible Canada Act) that the Senate Standing Committee Has Passed
- Senate’s Standing Committee Passes Amendments to Strengthen the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- New Toronto Star Guest Column by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Shows How and Why the Senate Should Strengthen Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act, Before Passing it this Spring
- AODA Alliance’s Short Supplementary Brief to the Senate Focuses on the High Priority of Surgically Removing from Bill C-81 A Troubling Provision that Lets the Canadian Transportation Agency Pass Regulations that Cut Back on the Human Rights of Passengers with Disabilities
- At the Senate, Federal Disability Minister Carla Qualtrough Answers Senators’ Questions on the Weak Bill C-81 (Proposed Accessible Canada Act) – Read the AODA Alliance’s Commentary on the Minister’s Key Answers
- Canada Transportation Agency Proposes New Regulations that Threatens to Reduce the Duty to Accommodate Passengers with Disabilities in Air Travel and Other Transportation that the Federal Government Can Regulate, According to a New Brief by the AODA Alliance
- Read or Watch What the AODA Alliance Said to the Senate’s Standing Committee on Social Affairs on April 11, 2019 About the Need to Strengthen the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- AODA Alliance to Present to Senate Standing Committee on Social Affairs Thursday April 11, 2019 on the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- AODA Alliance Writes Federal Party Leaders Seeking Commitments to Strengthen Bill C-81, and to Bring It Back Before Parliament After This Fall’s Federal Election If It is Not Passed With Amendments to Strengthen It
- AODA Alliance Submits A Short Brief to the Senate of Canada, Calling for Amendments to Strengthen the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed “Accessible Canada Act”
- A Modest Interim Victory for Joint Efforts by the AODA Alliance and Ontario Autism Coalition
- Come to the April 10, 2019 Queen’s Park Accessibility Town Hall and – Powerful Toronto Star Editorial Calls on Ford Government to Swiftly Implement the Onley Report
- AODA Alliance Writes Ontario’s Accessibility Minister to Urge Swift Action to Implement the Onley Report
- A look at TTC Accessibility Through The Eyes of A Rider Who Uses Two Canes
- Review of Ontario Accessibility Finds Province is Failing Disabled Residents
- Ground-Breaking Report by Former Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley, Tabled in the Legislature Yesterday, Blasts Poor Provincial Government Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s 2005 Disabilities Act and Calls for Major Reforms to Tackle Persisting Barriers Impeding 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Continued Radio Silence on Key Accessibility Issues So Far from the Ford Government – And Other Accessibility News
- Does A Toronto Star Queen’s Park Columnist Hint that David Onley’s AODA Independent Review Will Find Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Situation in Need of Reforms?
- Now that The Ford Government Received David Onley’s Independent Review Report on the AODA, the AODA Alliance Has Called on Accessibility Minister Raymond Cho to Immediately Lift the Government’s Freeze on the Work of the Health Care and Education Standards Development Committees
- Canada’s Senate To Debate Bill C-81, the proposed Accessible Canada Act – Here’s Our Strategy to Strengthen this Weak Bill
- We’re In the Media Two Days in a Row! A Globe and Mail Article on our January 30, 2019 Joint News Conference on School Principals Excluding Students from School and a Toronto Star Letter to the Editor from the AODA Alliance
- Disability Advocates Call for Action Limiting When Principal Can Exclude Student from School
- Will Ontario’s New Government Ensure that New Courthouses, Built Using Public Money, Are Barrier-Free for People with Disabilities?
- Raise Public Transit Accessibility Barriers at the December 13, 2018 TTC Public Forum on Accessible Transit
- Excellent Toronto Star Article Reports on Our Call for Canada’s Senate to Hold Public Hearings and Amend the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- In the Legislature Yesterday, the Ford Government Refused to Lift Its 168-Day Freeze on Standards Development Committees that Were Working on Recommendations to Remove Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Education and Health Care System
- On The International Day for People with Disabilities, December 3, the AODA Alliance Calls on the Senate to Amend the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed “Accessible Canada Act” After the Trudeau Government Voted Down Key Amendments in the House of Commons
- Canada’s House of Commons Unanimously Passes Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act , Sending It to the Senate, But the Federal Liberal Government Blocked Many Key Amendments that Would Have Made It Strong Legislation
- Send Us Feedback on the AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief to the David Onley Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- CBC Radio and TV Report on the Ford Government’s Continued Freeze on the Work of Standards Development Committees to Tackle Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Education and Health Care Systems
- Disability Advocates Criticize Lack of Teeth in New Manitoba Accessibility Regulations
- In a powerful Open Letter sent to the Federal Government, An Extraordinary Lineup of Thirty-four Disability Organizations Unite to Press for Key Amendments to Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Today is the 20th Anniversary of the Ontario Legislature’s Historic Unanimous Resolution, Calling for Ontario to Enact Strong and Effective Disability Accessibility Legislation
- At Public Hearings, The AODA Alliance Urges Parliament’s Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities to Strengthen the Weak Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Breaking News! The Accessibility Directorate of Ontario Tells the AODA Alliance that One Standards Development Committee is Going Back to Work After a 119-Day Freeze ? And News on the Federal Accessibility Front
- Quick Ways You can Help Us Get Parliament to Amend Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act, to Make It a Good Law
- What Do Canada’s National Political Parties Have to Say About Proposed New Legislation on Disability Accessibility?
- Laws Changing too Slowly: Disability Rights Advocate
- The AODA Alliance Is Invited to Present to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities On October 25, 2018 To Propose Amendments to Bill C-81, the Accessible Canada Act
- Please Tell the Federal Government if You Support the AODA Alliance’s Finalized brief to the Parliament of Canada, that Requests Amendments to Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Disability Rights Advocate Wants Cancelled Thunder Bay Accessibility Hearing Rescheduled
- David Onley Independent Review of Ontario’s Disabilities Act Cancels Its Thunder Bay Public Hearings Due to Poor Enrollment, After the Review Poorly Publicized these Hearings – Northern Ontario Deserves Better
- The AODA Alliance Sends the David Onley AODA Independent Review a Letter Giving Preliminary Submissions On Problems with the Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Raises Concerns with the Independent Review’s Public Consultations
- The David Onley AODA Independent Review Schedules Two More Public Hearings, in Toronto and London, With Insufficient Publicity and No Outreach to the AODA Alliance to Help Publicize Them
- AODA Alliance Presses the Ford Government to Immediately Lift Its Freeze on the Work of Standards Development Committees, Appointed under Ontario’s Disabilities Act To Make Recommendations on Needed Accessibility Standards
- David Onley Schedules Public Hearings of the Third Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Without Notifying the AODA Alliance – Dates Coming Up Fast
- Premier Ford and Accessibility Minister Raymond Cho Write the AODA Alliance In Response to Our Recent Letters Recommending Key Accessibility Priorities for The Premier and Minister
- By August 24, 2018, Please Send Us Your Feedback on Our Draft Brief to the Federal Government and Parliament on Bill C-81, the Proposed “Accessible Canada Act”
- Join the Blitz to Press Candidates Across Ontario for School Board Trustee to Make the “Students with Disabilities Pledge” – Help Ensure Hundreds of Thousands of Students with Disabilities Fully Benefit From Ontario’s Education system
- Two Major Developments on the Accessibility Front Outside Ontario
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Doug Ford to Offer Nine Recommendations for the Premier to Help Get Ontario Back on Schedule to Reach Full Accessibility by 2025 for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Writes Ontario’s New Minister for Accessibility and Seniors Raymond Cho to Introduce Ourselves and to Provide a detailed Briefing Note on Priorities Needing Action Now for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- A Look at Premier Doug Ford’s First Throne Speech from the Perspective of Ensuring that Ontario Becomes Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities by 2025
- What Will Today’s Throne Speech at Queen’s Park Offer 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities?
- Advocates Welcome Ontario Minister Responsible for Accessibility
- Retrospective On Progress from October 2003 to June 2018 on Disability Accessibility Under the Ontario Liberal Government of Premiers Dalton McGuinty and Kathleen Wynne
- Media Coverage of the AODA Alliance’s Preliminary Analysis of bill C-81, the Federal Government’s Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- AODA Alliance Releases Its Preliminary Analysis of the Trudeau Government’s Bill C-81, the Proposed Accessible Canada Act
- Federal Government Announces Its Intent to Introduce Into Parliament, As Early As This Week, “An Act to Ensure a Barrier-Free Canada” – Will History Be Made This Week?
- With the National Accessibility Law Promised to Be Introduced into Parliament This Spring, the AODA Alliance Makes Public an Introductory Guide On The Process That a Bill Goes Through At Canadas Parliament
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier-Designate Doug Ford, as the Conservative Party Prepares to Take Power in Ontario
- First Reflections on the 2018 Ontario Election from the Perspective of Our Non-Partisan Campaign for Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- More Media Coverage of Accessibility Issues and Voting Barriers Facing Voters with Disabilities
- New 2-Minute Teaser/Promo Video Available for the Longer AODA Alliance Video on Accessibility Problems at New and Recently Renovated Toronto Public Transit Stations
- Ontario Election: Disability Advocates Hope New Government Will Revisit Accessibility Law
- More on the pressing Need for Ontario’s Next Government to Enact Strong New Laws to Ensure that Ontario’s Built Environment Becomes Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Blind Disability Rights Advocate Has His Right to Mark His Ballot in Private Violated at His Riding’s Returning Office
- Join Us at the Saturday June 16, 2018 Public Forum on Disability Accessibility in Barrie Ontario
- More Proof During this Election of the Need for Ontario’s Next Government to Take Strong, Prompt New Action to Tear Down the Many Barriers Impeding Students with Disabilities – and – What Should An Accessible Education system Look Like?
- On the Eve of the 2018 Ontario Election Campaign, the Wynne Government Made Public the Weak Final Recommendations of the Transportation Standards Development committee For Revisions to the 2011 Transportation Accessibility Standard
- AODA Alliance Urges All Ontario Voters with Disabilities to Vote at Advance Polls, to Avoid the Risk of Running Into Accessibility Barriers on Voting Day June 7, 2018 – Here Are Helpful Action Tips
- More Proof That There Are Accessibility Problems at the New Toronto Courthouse, Planned to Be Built in the Heart of Downtown Toronto
- Watch AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Tonight at 8 or 11 PM or Later on YouTube, Talking about This Ontario Election’s Accessibility Issues
- 2018 Ontario Election Action Kit: Tell Candidates that In This Election, the Disability Vote Counts!
- Wonderful Media Coverage of the AODA Alliance’s New Video on Serious Accessibility Problems at New and Recently-Renovated Toronto Area Public Transit Stations
- What Has Each Political Party Pledged to Do to Make Ontario Fully Accessible to 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities by 2025? Major Disability Coalition Unveils and Analyzes the Parties’ Pledges
- Grassroots Disability Coalition’s Powerful New Video Shows Serious Accessibility Problems at New and Recently Renovated Public Transit Stations in Toronto, , As the Future of Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Looms as an Ontario Election Issue
- Use Our List of Provincial Candidates’ Contact Info to Press them for Strong Commitments on Accessibility
- Help Us Expand Access to Jobs for Ontarians with Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Writes Accessibility Minister Tracy MacCharles to Request Modest But Important Improvements to the Way Accessibility Standards are Developed in Ontario Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- AODA Alliance Report on 5 Years of Lax AODA Enforcement Comes Up in the Legislature and the Media
- Grassroots Disability Coalition’s New Report Reveals Five Consecutive Years of Rampant Violations of Ontario’s Disabilities Act, Known to the Wynne Government, And Ineffective Provincial Enforcement, Despite Unkept Government Promises to Effectively Enforce this Law
- The Wynne Government’s Plan for a New Courthouse in Downtown Toronto Has Significant Accessibility Problems
- Ontario’s Accessibility Minister Convenes a Forum on Addressing Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Built Environment – We Await Follow-up Action
- AODA Alliance Writes Ontario’s Major Political Parties, Seeking Their Election Pledges on Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Send Us Your Feedback About the Draft Recommendations to Revise the 2011 Ontario Employment Accessibility Standard that the Employment Standards Development Committee Has Circulated for Public Comment
- Our Disability Accessibility Concerns and Issues Again Get Good Attention in the Media and the Ontario Legislature in the Wake of Last Week’s Pre-election Ontario Budget
- Tell Us What Disability Barriers Now Impede Students with Disabilities in Ontario’s Education System So We Can Share these with the Education Standards Development Committee
- A Disability Accessibility Perspective on the March 28, 2018 Pre-Election Ontario Budget
- Promised New Canada Accessibility Legislation Expected to Be Introduced into Parliament for Debate This Spring
- A Lengthy 14 Months after Finally Promising to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act, the Wynne Government Finally Convenes the First Meetings of the Promised Education Standards Development Committees
- The Wynne Government Appoints a Person to Conduct an Independent Review of the Disabilities Act Who has Respected Expertise in Accessibility, But who Lacks Much-Needed Independence
- The AODA Alliance Makes Public an Open Letter, Seeking Disability Accessibility Commitments from the Candidates for Leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party
- AODA Alliance Writes Ontario’s Accessibility Minister to Requested Updated Information on the Wynne Government’s Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- The Wynne Government Offers Nothing New to Address Disability Barriers in the Built Environment
- After Almost Three Months, The Wynne Government Answers the AODA Alliance’s Request for An Update on Government Plans on Implementing and Enforcing the AODA, but Several of Our Important Questions Remain Unanswered
- After Months of AODA Alliance Advocacy Efforts, the Wynne Government Announces the Chairs of the Education Standards Development Committee
- Will Ontario’s Transportation Standards Development Committee Consider and Vote on Each Recommendation that the AODA Alliance and ARCH Disability Law Centre Have Made to Strengthen Ontario’s Transportation Accessibility Standard?
- The Opposition New Democratic Party and Progressive Conservative Party Each Draw on The AODA Alliance’s December 4, 2017 News Release to Support Our Call for the Wynne Government to Now Appoint the Overdue Education Standards Development Committee
- News Release: Anniversary of Wynne Government Inaction
- On the Eve of the International Day for People with Disabilities, will the Wynne Government Invest $125 Million In Another New Public University Building Whose Preliminary Design Has Serious Accessibility Problems?
- The AODA Alliance Launches Part 2 of Its Series of Online Videos on the Campaign for Accessibility, to Mark the 23rd Anniversary of Ontario’s Grassroots Campaign for Disability Accessibility
- Amazing Responses to, Including More Media Coverage of our New Video on Serious Accessibility Problems at Ryerson University’s New Student Learning Centre
- New AODA Alliance Video on Accessibility Problems at Ryerson University Student Learning Centre Gets Great Media Coverage
- Grassroots Disability Coalition Unveils Powerful New Video Showing Serious Accessibility Problems at the New Ryerson University Student Learning Centre
- AODA Alliance Calls On the Wynne Government to Take Action to Ensure Ontario’s Built Environment Becomes Disability-Accessible by 2025
- Wynne Government Still Hasn’t Appointed an Education Standards Development Committee, Fully 314 Days After Premier Wynne Pledged to Create an Education Accessibility Standard under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Will the Massive New Courthouse that The Wynne Government Is Planning for the Heart of Downtown Toronto Have Sufficient Disability Accessibility?
- CBC Radio Reports on Serious Recurring Accessibility Barriers on Toronto Transit Commission
- AODA Alliance September 19 Press Release
- Raise Public Transit Accessibility Barriers at the September 19, 2017 TTC Public Forum on Accessible Transit
- The AODA Alliance Writes Kent Hehr, Canada’s New National Minister for People with Disabilities, who is Now Responsible for Developing Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law
- Watch the Archived Video of the August 22, 2017 Policy Experts Conference on What Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Excellent Media Coverage of the Policy Experts Conference on What Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Remember to Catch Tomorrow’s Online Conference on What Canada’s Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Toronto Star Editorial Blasts the Wynne Government for Too Much Secrecy and Not Enough Action on Disability Accessibility
- New Democratic Party and Progressive Conservative Party Call on the Wynne Government to Make Public All Information that AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Requested in His June 4, 2015 Freedom of Information Application, on the Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Enforcement Without Charging a Fee
- Tell the Ontario Government if You Support the AODA Alliance’s and ARCH Disability Law Centre’s Brief to the Ontario Government on Reforms to Make Transportation Accessible to People with Disabilities
- Information and Privacy Commission Orders the Wynne Government to Reveal Its Plans for Enforcing Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- Help Us Make Transportation Services in Ontario Accessible to Passengers with Disabilities
- Wynne Government Extends to July 31, 2017 the Deadline for Answering the Government’s Education Barriers Survey and for Giving Feedback on Draft Reforms to Ontario’s Transportation Accessibility Standard
- Before Week’s End, Please Fill Out the Wynne Government’s Online Survey on Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Education system and Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Answers to This Survey, Which We Make Public Today
- AODA Alliance Asks the Wynne Government for Updated Specific Information on What It Is Doing to Keep Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- After Almost Three Months, The Wynne Government Answers the AODA Alliance’s Request for An Update on Government Plans on Implementing and Enforcing the AODA, but Several of Our Important Questions Remain Unanswered
- The Wynne Government’s Current Online Survey of Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Education system Leaves out Many if not the Majority of Barriers Impeding Students with Disabilities in Ontario’s Education System
- We Invite Schools, Colleges, Universities, Early Learning Programs and Job Training Programs in Ontario to Use These Tips for Holding a Public Event to Gather Feedback from Your Organization and the Public on Disability Accessibility Barriers in Our Education System
- Before July 14, 2017 Please Fill Out the Ontario Government’s Survey of Disability Accessibility Barriers that Hurt Students with Disabilities in Ontario’s Education System – Here Are Great Tips to Help You
- The Wynne Government Posts Details for Applying to Serve on the Education Standards Development Committee
- The Media Reports on AODA Alliance Concerns About the Wynne Government’s Disability Employment Strategy
- Today’s Wynne Government Disability Employment Strategy Offers Too Little Immediate Concrete Action and More Delays for Unemployed Ontarians with Disabilities, After More Than Four Years Since the Government Promised Action
- Wynne Government to Unveil Its Promised New Strategy to Tackle High Unemployment Facing Ontarians with Disabilities on June 5, 2017 (A Strategy On Which the AODA Alliance Was Not Consulted)
- An Interim Victory for Our Grassroots Campaign – Wynne Government at Last Invites Applications to Serve on the Education Standards Development Committee
- Nova Scotia Is the Third Canadian Province to Pass an Accessibility Law
- The Ontario Conservatives Ask the Wynne Government When It Will Appoint the Education Standards Development Committee, But the Wynne Government Doesn’t Give a Direct Answer
- Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update
- AODA Alliance Update
- Yet More Great Accessibility Town Hall and Public Forum Events Coming Up Around Ontario
- Federal Accessibility Minister Carla Qualtrough Gives Toronto Star Another Glimpse into Her Thinking on the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act
- On the Eve of Toronto Public Consultations, Canada’s Disabilities Minister Carla Qualtrough Offers a Glimpse Into What the Promised Canadians with Disabilities Act May Include
- Join Us as the AODA Alliance Comes to Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge Next Week
- On January 31, 2017, Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commission Heard David Lepofsky’s Freedom of Information Appeal Regarding Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s Disabilities Act, and Reserved Its Decision
- Accessibility Advocate Appeals Access to Information Fee
- Check out the Arguments the Information and Privacy Commission Will Hear Tomorrow in AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky’s Freedom of Information Appeal Against the Wynne Government
- AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky to Battle the Wynne Government at a January 31 Information and Privacy Commission Public Hearing, As He Tries to Unearth Government Records on Its Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- AODA Alliance Writes Tracy MacCharles to Propose Action Priorities for Her as Both Accessibility Minister and Minister of Government and Consumer Services
- Yesterday’s Ontario’s Cabinet Shuffle Is a Step Backwards for 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Media Reports on Our Getting the Wynne Government to Agree to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard
- Breaking News ?Premier Wynne has Just Announced in the Legislature that the Ontario Government Agrees to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- 22 Major Disability Organizations Send Premier Wynne an Open Letter Calling for the Wynne Government to Agree to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- On this International Day for People with Disabilities, We Look Back at Kathleen Wynne’s Written Promises to 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, Made Four years Ago Today, on What She’d Do on Disability Accessibility if She Became Ontario’s Premier
- Excellent Toronto Star Article Reports on the AODA Alliance’s Captioned Video about Accessibility Problems at the New Centennial College Culinary Arts Centre
- Ontario and Federal Governments Announce $44 Million for New Infrastructure at Centennial College But Announce No Strings To Ensure It’s Fully Disability-Accessible
- On the 22nd Anniversary of the Birth of Ontario’s Grassroots Accessibility Law Campaign, the AODA Alliance Releases a Striking Video that Shows Significant Accessibility Problems at the Brand New Centennial College Culinary Arts Centre
- Spread the Word About the AODA Alliance’s New Discussion Paper on What an Education Accessibility Standard Can and Should Include
- Progressive Conservative Party and Green Party Candidates in the Ottawa Vanier and Niagara West-Glanbrook November 17, 2016 By-elections Answer the AODA Alliance’s Accessibility Questionnaire
- Ottawa Vanier Liberal Candidate in the November 17, 2016 By-election Nathalie Des Rosiers Answers the AODA Alliance’s Accessibility Questionnaire
- Three of the Six Major Parties’ Candidates in the November 17 2016 Ottawa and Niagara By-Elections Answered the AODA Alliance’s Requests Seeking Accessibility Commitments
- Next Weekend’s Whitby Accessibility Public Forum is the First AODA Alliance Community Event Since the AODA Was Passed to Be Attended by Ontario’s Minister Responsible for Implementing Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- A Report by the KPMG Consulting Firm Prepared for the Wynne Government Confirms that There Are Recurring Accessibility Barriers in Ontario’s Education System
- AODA Alliance Offers a Preliminary Look at the Proposed New Accessibility Law that the Nova Scotia Government Tabled in the Nova Scotia Legislature Last Week
- Ontario Conservatives Press Premier Wynne in the Ontario Legislature’s Question Period to Agree to the AODA Alliance’s Call for the Government to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard
- Action Kit for Raising Disability Accessibility Issues in the November 17, 2016 Ontario By-elections in Ottawa Vanier and Niagara West-Glanbrook
- Today is the 18th Anniversary of a Pivotal Milestone on the Road to Strong Ontario Disability Accessibility Legislation that Resonates to this Day in Provincial and Federal Accessibility Campaigns
- Come to Upcoming Accessibility Forums in St. Johns Newfoundland (Nov4), Burlington Ontario (Nov. 6) and Whitby Ontario (Nov. 7)
- Over Two Short Days, Our Accessibility Issues Come Up Twice in Ontario’s Legislature and Also in the Toronto Star
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s September 15, 2016 Annual Public Forum on Accessible Transit to Recount Accessibility Barriers You Face on TTC
- Premier Wynne’s Throne Speech Offers 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Nothing new
- The Liberal Party’s Candidate in the September 1, 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River By-election Answers the AODA Alliance’s Accessibility Questionnaire
- The Conservative Candidate in the September 1, 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River By-election Answered the AODA Alliance’s Questionnaire on Disability Accessibility Issues, After We Made Public that Only the NDP Candidate Had Responded
- The New Democratic Party’s Candidate in the September 1, 2016 Scarborough-Rouge River By-election Answered the AODA Alliance’s Questionnaire on Disability Accessibility Issues
- Tell the Wynne Government If You Support the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on health Care Accessibility Barriers that We Submitted to the Government’s “Pre-Consultation”
- The Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario Calls On the Wynne Government to Agree to Create an Education Accessibility Standard Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief to the Wynne Government’s “Pre-Consultation” on Health Care Accessibility Barriers Facing Patients with Disabilities
- The Toronto Star Gives Great Coverage to the AODA Alliances “Picture Our Barriers” Social Media Campaign – Join In the Blitz
- Please Circulate the AODA Alliance’s News Release Responding to the Wynne Government’s Announcement on School Supports for Students with Disabilities
- Action Kit for Raising Disability Accessibility Issues in the September 1, 2016 Ontario By-election in Scarborough-Rouge River
- Tell Us What Accessibility Barriers You Have Faced in Ontario’s Health Care System We’re Preparing a Brief for the Wynne Government
- AODA Alliance Writes New Ontario Accessibility Minister Tracy MacCharles to List Priority Actions to Get Ontario Back on Schedule to Reach Full Accessibility by 2025, the Deadline that Ontario’s Accessibility Law Imposes
- AODA Alliance Writes New Ontario Accessibility Minister Tracy MacCharles to List Priority Actions to Get Ontario Back on Schedule to Reach Full Accessibility by 2025, the Deadline that Ontario’s Accessibility Law Imposes
- Wynne Government Holds Unneeded “Pre-Consultation on Health Care Accessibility Barriers, Before It Sets Up Standards Development Committee to Consult on Health Care Accessibility Barriers
- Toronto Star Reports on Wynne Government Weakening the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Premier Wynne Appoints Tracy MacCharles as Ontario’s First Minister of Accessibility for 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- More Reflections on Premier Wynne’s Breaking Her Promise Not to Weaken Protections We’ve Won In or Under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Premier Wynne Breaks Important Promise to 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities to Never Weaken Any Protections We’d Won under Ontario’s Disabilities Act
- Even More Media Coverage of Problems with Accessible Customer Service in Ontario
- The Wynne Government Wants the AODA Alliance to Volunteer its Time to Give Input on its Flawed Proposal for a Private Accessibility Certification Process
- Come to the April 12, 2016 Mississauga Accessibility Public Forum
- Please Tell the Wynne Government if You Support the List of Readily-Achievable Improvements to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard that the AODA Alliance and ARCH Disability Law Centre Have Jointly Submitted to the Economic Development Minister
- Nine Years after the Ontario Government Promises to Review All Ontario Laws for Accessibility Barriers, the Wynne Government Proposes Modest Legislative Changes to 11 Laws , To Be Fast-Tracked Through the Legislature
- AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Files Appeal to the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner
- Send Us Feedback on Our Latest Draft Brief to the Wynne Government on Proposed Revisions to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Watch AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky on TVOntario’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin Tonight at 8 or 11 PM
- AODA Alliance Update: Accessibility Forums
- AODA Alliance Action Kit: “Picture Our Barriers” Action Kit
- AODA Alliance Immediate NEWS RELEASE
- One Year Ago Today the Wynne Government Released the Report of the Mayo Moran Independent Review of Ontarios Disabilities Act
- Government Email Reveals Wynne Government is Paying Deloitte A Staggering $415,000 to Consult on a Proposal to Establish a Private Accessibility Certification Process
- The Wynne Government Gives the Public up to March 14, 2016 to Comment on the Text of Proposed Regulations that Would Revise Ontario Accessibility Standards
- AODA Alliance Sends the Deloitte Company its Submission on the First Phase of the Deloitte Company’s Public Consultation on the Wynne Government’s Problem-Ridden Proposal to Fund a New Private Accessibility Certification Process
- Toronto Star Reports on Massive Private Sector Violations of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Law and Continued Weak Enforcement – Wynne Governments Reported Response Is Quite Troubling
- Wynne Government Refuses to Waive Its $4,250 Fee for Fully Answering AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofskys Freedom of Information Application Seeking Important Government Records on the AODAs Implementation and Enforcement
- Wynne Government Extends Time For Feedback on Troubling Proposed changes to Accessibility Standards, But Doesnt Publicize This Extension
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- How Ontario Communities are Making Themselves More Senior-Friendly
- Sarnia Facing Human Rights Complaint
- Thunder Bay Bird Observatory Now Wheelchair Accessible
- At The Frank, Accessibility Obstacles Going, Going Gone
- Cambridge Advisory Committees Clash Over Blair Road Turf War
- Massive New Park Set to Open Soon in Brampton
- Linking Campus to Nature: Work Begins on One-of-a-Kind, Accessible Trail at U of T Scarborough
- Vaughan Subway Accessibility Denied With Elevator Out of Service 6 Months
- Downtown Accessibility Ramp Project Kicks Off
- Record Snow Creates ‘Nightmare’ for People With Accessibility Issues, Says Advocate Urging Better Clearing
- Dundas Service Ontario Office Encouraged to Improve Accessibility
- What Would a Truly Disabled-Accessible City Look Like?
- Universities Join Together to Inspire Students to Use Their Creativity and Innovative Skills to Help Make Communities More Accessible for People With Disabilities
- Accessible Fire Safety Tips for Property Managers
- Canadian Children Lack Accessible Play Spaces
- Campaign Gets Major Lift
- Council Directs Staff to Create a New Design for Ballantyne Avenue That Includes Sidewalks on Both Sides of the Street
- Accessibility Ramp Rebuild Removed From Perth Countys 2018 Budget
- I Dread it: Navigating London’s Winter Sidewalks in a Wheelchair
- Changes Will Regulate How New Facilities Are Built
- Making a Home Accessible Can Make All the Difference as We Age
- Accessibility Advocates Looking to Expand the Scope of the StopGap Program in the City
- How an Ottawa Cancer Patient is Trying to Make CHEO More Accessible for Everyone
- Daniels Leads Industry in Accessible Housing
- A Prisoner in Her Own Home
- A Campus of Hurdles
- Built Environment Accessibility Audit, Largest in Manitoba History
- Washrooms at Kirby’s Beach are Officially Open for Business in Bracebridge
- New Pedestrian-Activated Crossing Signals Provide Safe Passage in Downtown St. Marys
- Braille on Map at New Toronto Park ‘Not Accessible’
- Lack of Accessibility at New Orillia Restaurant Angers Resident
- ICC Releases Update to Building Accessibility Standard
- Accessibility Equipment Added To Sandpoint Beach
- Binbrook Conservation Area Sees Many Improvements
- Mother of Two Disabled Daughters Concerned About Lack of Accessibility at New Foldens Playground
- Toronto Needs New Plan to Be Barrier Free as Accessibility Becomes Law, Says Advocate
- Accessing Accessibility Under the Building Code, the AODA and the OHRC
- Mobility Device Charging Stations Set to Be Showcased at Provincial Conference
- BCA Universal Design Award winners showcase facilities for less mobile users
- MS Student McCarthy Enhances Campus Accessibility Through New Web App
- Reliable Elevators Act Passes Second Reading
- Center for Real Life Design launches with an emphasis on universal design and sustainability
- Sidewalk Repairs This Year Include 65 Inaccessible Curbs
- City Criticized on Accessibility Issues
- People with Disabilities Sue BART for Discrimination
- Stop Gap Gears Up for Spring Push
- TTC: Accessibility Upgrades Coming to St Patrick Station
- I’ve Spent Two Years at Ryerson, but I’m Still Learning How to Navigate It
- Disability Art: How Do You Participate if Only Two Toronto Venues are Fully Accessible?
- Accessibility Improvements Completed at Ossington TTC Subway Station
- Accessibility Lift Means a Lot: Swimmer
- Updated Accessibility Standards Coming to City of Burlington Facilities
- Some Toronto Wheel-Trans Passengers Say They’ve Been Left at the Curb Due to New Bike Lane
- Waterloo Tightens Accessibility Rules for Development
- ‘Just do it now:’ doctors encouraged to make offices accessible
- Accessibility Advocates Tweet Their Barriers
- EnAbling Change: Accessible Playspaces
- StopGap Founder Wins Jane Jacobs Prize
- The Top Five Mistakes That Exclude People From Your Event and How to Fix Them
- Ramp Up 2016 Aims to Double Number of Accessible Ramps in Ontario
- On Universal Design: How Businesses Can Benefit From Boosting Accessibility
- For Torontonians with Disabilities, Riding the TTC is Still A Struggle
- Wheelchair Bound Bolton Woman with MS Wants Call to Action on Accessibility
- Thornhill MPP Takes on Accessible Parking Issue
- University Students Earn Top Prizes for Accessible Designs at 2016 IDeA Competition
- Pedestrian crossing curbs need to be cut down to size: The Fixer
- YMCA of Greater Toronto Opens Its Most Accessible Centre Yet
- Ottawa’s Accessibility Rules Need More Common Sense: Critics
- Accessible Demands
- Toronto Officials Lay Down the Law on New Sidewalks
- How FMs Can Support Employment Standards
- Ontario Accessibility Standards: What Comes After the December 31, 2012 Reporting Deadline?
- New Campaign to Get McGuinty Government to Strengthen Enforcement of the AODA
- City hall accessibility problems
- Municipalities Urged to Eliminate Barriers to Housing Services
- Accessibility Remains An Issue
- Human Rights Chief Will Fight Hamilton at the OMB
- Accessibility After The Cart
- Let the McGuinty Government Know if You Support the AODA Alliance’s October 4 2012 Final BRIEF on ITS Draft Public SPACES Accessibility Regulation
- Send Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief to the McGuinty Government on Its August 15, 2012 Draft Accessibility Regulation to Address Barriers in the Built Environment of Public Spaces
- Attend the Toronto September 18 2012 Public Forum Discussion by Panel of Experts on McGuinty Government’s Proposed Regulation to Address Built Environment Barriers in Public Spaces
- AODA Alliance Releases a Report Card on the McGuinty Government Record at Keeping Its Twelve 2011 Election Promises on Disability Accessibility
- McGuinty Government Posts a Draft Partial Built Environment Accessibility Standard to Address Barriers in Public Spaces, Not Inside Buildings
- Design of Public Spaces in the Built Environment Draft Standards
- Pretty Hazards: the Accessible Built Environment
- AODA Alliance Launches Campaign to Get McGuinty Government to Develop Three New Accessibility Standards to Address Barriers Impeding Persons With Disabilities (PWD) in Access to Education, to Health Care and to Residential Housing
- County Continues to Upgrade its Facilities
- The Catch-22 of Group ome Bylaws
- Legacy of Local Musician Jeff Healey to Play On in Accessible Park
- Making Businesses Accessible to All has its Obstacles
- Students are Challenged to Make Ontario More Accessible for the Disabled
- Cut Frustrate Disabled
- How Easy is it for You to Shop?
- Taco Bell Awaits Sanctions in Accessibility Suit
- Volunteer Can’t Access Campus Building
- Local School Doesn’t Meet Accessibility Requirements for Election
- Physically Disabled Residents Ask City and Businesses to Consider Mobility Needs
- Accessibility Barrier at Whitby Building Traps Disabled Man
- AODA Alliance Writes Three Political Parties to Request 2011 Election Commitments
- Accessibility Rules for New Builds Only
- Thumbs Up Program: Helpful or Misleading?
- When Will a Built Environment Accessibility Standard be Enacted?
- Major Victory for Ontarians with Disabilities – McGuinty Government Enshrines Accessibility Requirements in its New 10-Year Infrastructure Plan
- To Meet Accessibility Standards, Windsor to Close 40 Playgrounds
- Accessibility Lessons Ontario Can Learn From the West
- Loss of Full-Serve Stations Hurts Seniors, Disabled: Council
- MCGuinty Government to Make Public the Finalized Enacted Integrated Accessibility Regulation this Friday
- Accessibility Standards Prioritize Safety
- AODA: Common Misconceptions About Proposed Accessible Built Environment Standard
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- Urban Planner and Disability Advocate Wants a Toronto That’s Accessible to All
- Accessibility Advisers Tell Council to Scrap e-Scooter Program, but City Staff Say Keep Rolling in 2022
- Toronto Woman Who Suffered Concussion After Fall From Mobility Scooter Says City Snow Clearing Protocols Need Review
- Hamilton to Make Temporary Sidewalk Patios Permanent
- New Accessibility Options Coming for Simcoe County Waste Carts
- New App Seeks to Identify, Solve Accessibility Barriers at Public Sites in Laval
- Request to Have Oshawa’s Accessibility Committee Approve Downtown Patios Denied
- Accessible Washroom Trailer, All-terrain Chair Focus of New Tecumseth Advisory Committee Discussion
- For People with Disabilities, Home Ownership is a Two-Headed Monster
- Waiting Game to Make City More Accessible Feels Like ‘Kick in the Face’
- A Quarter of Ontarians Have a Disability: How is This (Not) Changing Housing?
- Disabled and Denied Electric Vehicle Charging
- E-scooter Safety Upgrades Still Not Enough, Say Accessibility Advocates
- County Waste Carts Raise Accessibility Questions for Local Committee
- Proposal to Sidestep Sidewalk Disputes Could ‘Neuter’ Accessibility Policy in The London Plan
- This Piece of Gym Equipment is Pushing Accessible Fitness Forward in St. John’s
- Electric Scooters Continue to Endanger People with Disabilities, Seniors, Kids and Others in Ontario
- Sidewalk Snafus: Accessibility Issues are Dogging the e-Scooter Pilot Program in Ottawa
- Park Accessibility Highlighted in Student Engineering Design Competition
- People With Disabilities Hope Snow Clearing Ruling Means More Accessible Streets
- Hamilton Parking Lot and On-Street Patios Create Accessibility Issues
- ‘Going to Be Impossible’: How Will People With Disabilities Handle Simcoe County’s Bigger Bins?
- Campaign Gives Children With Disabilities Chance to Trick-or-Treat Without Barriers
- Why is a New Grocery Store in Downtown Kitchener Inaccessible to People in Wheelchairs?
- Toronto Teacher Who Now Uses Wheelchair Prompts TDSB to Make School More Accessible
- Disability Coalition Slams Trudeau Government’s Giving Millions to Rick Hansen Foundation’s Seriously Deficient Building Accessibility Certification Training Program
- Opt Out of e-Scooters Before It’s too Late, Accessibility Committee Warns
- I Am Trying and Struggling: Lack of Accessible, Affordable Units Leaves Kitchener Man Stranded
- New School Misses Mark on Accessibility
- Huron County Accessibility Crusader Tackles Bathrooms
- ‘Grave’ Safety Concerns From Accessibility Advocates Could Stop London Rollout of e-Scooters
- It Terrifies Me: Smiths Falls Mom at Risk of Homelessness Due to Lack of Affordable, Accessible Housing
- Committee Vote Goes Against Residents Opposed to New Sidewalks
- Sidewalk Opposition a ‘Decision to Exclude’: Accessibility Advisory Committee
- Disability Advocates Want Windsor Homeowners to Shovel Their Sidewalks, Consider Others
- Downtown Building’s Facelift Wins Award for Accessibility
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Issues Statement on Accessible Housing
- New Real Estate Features Help Identify Accessible Housing
- Smiths Falls Accessibility Advocate Applauds Beckwith Street Improvements
- Elliot Lake Honours Commitment to Accessibility With Beach Mats for Wheelchair Users
- Elliot Lake Honours Commitment to Accessibility With Beach Mats for Wheelchair Users
- When Street Design Leaves Some People Behind
- Sudbury Patios Causing Accessibility Challenges, Advocate Says
- Sarnia’s Accessible Kayak and Canoe Launch Makes a Splash
- The Dangers of E-Scooters
- Brief to: The City of Toronto Infrastructure and Environment Committee
- More Accessibility Grants Available
- Tiny Seeks Funding for Touchless Sinks and Toilets for Public Washrooms
- Bond Head Residents Frustrated with Dilapidated Sidewalks
- City Urged to Think About People With Disabilities in CurbTO Plan to Create Space on Sidewalks
- ‘I Couldn’t Get In’: Clearview Woman Says She Missed Funeral Reception for Friend Because the Hall Wasn’t Accessible
- Royal York in Etobicoke Latest Accessible TTC Station
- Trails, Accessibility and Maintenance Get Top Billing in Hamilton County’s Proposed Parks Master Plan
- After a Stroke at 27, He’s Ready to Get Out of Hospital. Amid a Housing Crunch, He Can’t Leave
- Toronto Man’s Lawsuit Against Apple a Reminder That Disability Discrimination in Tech Still Happens, Says Employment Lawyer
- Student in Wheelchair Forced to Listen to Lecture From Top of Stairs
- ‘There are No Rules’ When it Comes to Restaurant Accessibility in Halifax
- Windsor Resident Petitioning City to Clear Snow From Sidewalks
- Sarnia This Week: Year In Review
- Accessibility Key Issue in Debate Over Sidewalk Snow Plowing
- Navigation App Breaks Down Barriers for the Visually Impaired
- Queens Borough Public Library Sued for Excluding Persons with Disabilities from Full and Equal Access to Hunters Point Library
- Physically Disabled Employee Sues Apple Inc. for Constructive Dismissal
- Wanted: Accessible Homes for Ontarians of All Ages and Abilities
- Wheelchair Seating was Not acceptable
- First Fully Accessible Universal Washroom Opens at Upper Canada
- Toyota Canada Announces Partnership With StopGap, $100,000 Investment
- Students challenged to engineer accessibility at Canatara bandshell
- New Pilot Project in Stratford Aiming to Improve Accessibility
- ‘A Waste of Taxpayers’ Money’: Neighbours Oppose Sidewalk Upgrades in Galt Heritage District
- ‘If There’s a Fire I’m Dead’: Quadruple Amputee Battles Condo Board for Access to Her Own Building
- Canadian Cities Need to Be More Accessible for Aging Residents, According to Concordia University Political Scientist Meghan Joy
- How Gaming Technology is Helping to Design More Accessible Homes
- A Landscape Architect Graduate Created a TTC Map With Only Accessible Stations
- New Universal Design Guide Aims to make Public Spaces Pleasant for All
- Dedication Ceremony Names Beach Accessibility Mat After Man Who Fought for Equality for All
- Lack of Progress on Human Rights Order Frustrates Accessibility Activist
- Community Access for Visual Impaired Aided by Technology
- Some ION Stations are Unsafe and Inaccessible, Accessibility Consultant Says
- New Look for 100+ Year Old Library in North End Comes with Accessible Features
- Social Housing Developer Prepares to Open New Affordable Housing Project
- Toronto PreSchool for Kids With Disabilities Can’t Accommodate Staff Who Use Wheelchairs
- Are ‘Accessible’ Walk-in Clinics Accessible to All?
- Toronto ‘Woefully Unprepared’ to Meet Needs of Aging Population
- Man Challenges Ontario Pot Rules, Argues Discrimination Against People With Disabilities
- ONTARIO: A North Bay Beach is Going to Be Wheelchair Accessible This Summer
- Breaking Barriers: Accessibility at Home a Costly Process
- Must Condos Making Renovations Implement Accessibility Measures?
- ANALYSIS: How Some Barrie Businesses Make a Double-Amputee Feel Like a ‘Second-Class Citizen
- How a Little Wooden Ramp Reshaped An Ontario City
- Make Waterloo Region’s Roundabouts Safer for Blind Pedestrians
- Snow Causing Accessibility Issues in North Bay
- World’s First Fully-Accessible Condominium to Be Built in Pickering
- Creating More Inclusive Condo Communities
- Accessibility Upgrades Completed at Peterborough Curling Club
- Toronto Needs Wider, Unobstructed Sidewalks, Disability and Pedestrian Advocates Say
- Accessibility Concerns Raised in Stirling
- Pedestrian Travel for Persons With Disabilities Can Be Difficult and Occasionally Risky
- TTC to Retrofit Almost All Subway Stations to Fix Platform Gaps
- Ontario Woman Calls for Better Accessibility at Toronto Coach Terminal
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- How Niagara-on-the-Lake Can Take Charge in Ontario’s Quest for Full Accessibility by 2025
- ‘They are Engaging in a Fundamental Violation of the Human Rights Code’: Virtual Council Meetings a Nightmare for Local Accountability
- Ontario’s Online Health-Card Renewal System Excludes People With Disabilities, Advocates Say
- Breaking Down Ontario’s Service Animal Laws After Violent Dispute at Kitchener Restaurant
- Committee Approves 5-Year School Accessibility Plan
- City Staff Recommend Against Increasing Accessible Voting Options for Next Year’s Election
- Town Launches Campaign on Service Animals for Local Businesses
- Service Dog Refused Entry Into Bradford Restaurant; Incident Leads to Education Around Legislation
- Upcoming Municipal Election Is Not Accessible to All, Says Advocate
- Workplace Accessibility and the Upcoming AODA Compliance Deadlines
- Companies Face Website Accessibility Deadline
- Accessibility Compliance Service, AAAtraq, Has Teamed up With AbleDocs, Enabling Subscribers to Publish Accessible Documents More Easily on Their Websites.
- Providing Closed Captioning on Council Meetings too Costly, Suggests Town Staff
- ‘The Equal Opportunity I Needed’: U of T Accessibility Services Supports Students During COVID-19.
- The Realities of U of T Students in the Age of ‘Zoom University’
- Coroner Calls Inquest Into Death of Teen at Brantford School for the Blind
- Sign Language Interpreters at Media Briefs Should Be Normal: Accessibility advocates
- Accessibility = Inclusion and Belonging for Kids with Physical Disabilities
- City Updates Its Service Animal Policy
- Local Artist Hopes to Help Improve Accessibility of Art
- Why Your Next Hire Should Be a Person With Disabilities
- Ensuring Accessible Content for All Students
- Study Shows High Ranking Websites Are Neglecting Accessibility
- Law Around Service Animals
- NDP MPP for Ottawa Centre Calls On Ford to Implement Recommendations From AODA Third Review
- Harsher Penalties to Stop Workplace Discrimination, Boost Accommodation
- Service Dog Refusal Results in Apologies From Ministry, DriveTest
- Autism Service Dogs Can Keep a Child Safe and Calm, But Their Trainers Aren’t Always Allowed in Public Places
- ‘Childish’: Creemore Man Describes Efforts to Get Clearview to Produce Accessible Documents
- Human Rights complaint against hospital to be heard Aug. 30
- Accessibility Request Turns Into Personal Attack Online
- Pickering hopes to Better Define ‘Service Animals’
- Making Businesses Accessible ‘Right Thing To Do’
- We Need to Build Accessibility Into Our Digital Workplaces!
- Payment Companies Face Service, Compliance Gaps for the Visually Impaired
- U of T’s New Mental Health Policy is Shameful
- Toronto Pearson Launches Innovative Technology to Support Accessibility for those with Cognitive Special Needs
- No Dogs Allowed: Uber Driver’s Ignorance a Barrier for Deaf-Blind Athlete and Guide Dog
- Local Man Wants Law to Regulate Service Dogs
- Taxi Ruling a Black Mark for Justice
- Ontario: Chihuahua as Service Dog Getting No Respect
- Store Owner Gives the Boot to Blind Sudbury Man and His Service Dog
- Guide Dogs Do Serious Work
- Ontario Tribunal Rules Autistic Boy Can?t Bring Service Dog to Class
- Toronto Couple with Service Dog Barred From Prince Edward County B&B
- When I’m Not Here, the Dog is Her Comfort
- D’AMATO: Is a School a Public Place? Question Affects Boy and His Service Dog
- Changes to Ontario’s Accessible Customer Service Standard are Now in Effect
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- Restaurant Riles Stouffville Couple Denied Entry
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- Restaurant Owners: Get Listed on Google’s First Page with an Accessible Menu
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- Federal Court of Appeal Reaffirms That Inaccessible Federal Government Websites Violate the Constitutional Rights of Blind Canadians
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- AODA: Accessible Transportation Compliance Schedule
- Ontario Businesses Must Now Comply With Ontario’s Customer Service Accessibility Standard
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- Meeting the Customer Service Standard (CSS): Restaurant Menus
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- New Disability Regulations Ill-Considered
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- AODA: Who Let the Dogs Out? Saying ‘Yes’ to All Service Animals
- City of Kawartha Lakes Uses AODA as Defense Against Disabled
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- Esso Worker Bars Blind Athlete; Medal-Winning Rower Ordered from Gas Bar Because of Her Dog
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- Enabling Behaviour
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- AODA: Why Do I Have to Notify the Public When There is a Disruption of Services?
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- Virtual Meetings Change How Durham Residents Connect With City Hall, School Boards and Courts
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- 2020 Celebrating Accessibility Awards looking for nominations
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- Harvard to Caption Online Video Content Following Lawsuit Settlement
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- Companies, Give People With Disabilities Access to the Superhighway
- Accessibility Awareness Remains Low as Deadline Approaches
- Service Dog Handlers Face Bitter Pushback, Kicked Out of Public Places
- Deadline for 2017 AODA Compliance Report is Coming Up
- Completing your accessibility compliance report
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- Educational Organizations, Libraries, and the AODA
- Toronto Looking to Crack Down on Misuse of Accessible Parking Permits
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- MobilityPlus to Take Another Look at Dialysis Rides
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- Payton/Dann & Manning Law Firms File Federal Suit Alleging McDonald’s Website & App Violate ADA, Unruh Civil Rights Act
- Creating New Barriers
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- Huntsville’s Work-In-Progress Accessibility Plan Breaks Down Barriers
- E-Agenda Going Back to Tender
- Deli Owner Upset After City Orders Removal of ‘Unsafe Wheelchair Ramp’
- TTC Expands Wheel-Trans Eligibility to Include People With Cognitive, Sensory, or Mental Health Disabilities
- New AODA Requirements underscore maintenance
- Experts Say Rehabilitation Act Refresh Sets New Baseline for Accessibility Standards
- Council Restores City Videos Online
- London Not Following Accessibility Rules, Removes All Archived Council Debate Videos
- Reader Concerned About Lack of Accessibility in Gemmill Park Concept Plan
- Access Denied: Woman’s Support Dog Not Recognized by Orangeville Transit
- TTC Wheel-Trans Eligibility Expands in 2017
- New Year Should Bring Contentious Political Issues to Forefront in Peel Region
- U.S. Department of Education Releases Guidance on Civil Rights of Students with Disabilities
- Durham Regional Council Passes 2016 Accessibility Report
- City Committee Approves Changes to Transit Subsidies
- TransHelp Celebrates 35 Years and Prepares for Big Changes in Transit Service for Peel’s Disabled
- Elections Report Discriminates Against the Blind!
- Lindsay Transit Taking Steps Toward Fully Accessible Services
- BRITISH COLUMBIA: Passenger Transportation Board Approves Use of Soft Meters for Taxi Industry with Mandatory Voice Output
- New Era for Disability Rights
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- Sticking with Red and Green Transit Lines ‘Offensive’ to Colour-Blind People, Says Advocate
- Bell Media’s Flagship Radio Station NewsTalk 1010 Newly Redesigned Website Demonstrates Why We Need Enforcement!
- Blue Jays Strike Out with Service Dog
- Accessible eLearning Benefits All Learners
- Righting a Wrong
- Firm Fined $266K for Harassment of Deaf Employee
- Reasonable Accommodation Includes Electronic Accessibility
- Local MPP Introduces Private Member’s Bill for Service Dogs in Public Places
- Canada: January 1 2017 Deadline For AODA Compliance
- Accessibility Online: A Neglected Frontier for People With Disabilities
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- Advocate Pushes Gas Station Aid for Disabled People
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- Accessibility of Transitions Within and Beyond the K-12 Education System
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- Para Ice Hockey: Ontario Sledge Hockey Association (OSHA)
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- The Shelley Gautier Para-Sport Foundation for Para Cycling Athletes
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- Bird Box Challenge: There’s More to Being Blind Than Just Wearing a Blindfold
- What is the Transportation Standard?
- Accommodating Workers with Epilepsy
- Service Animals in Schools: Proposed Amendment to Legislation
- Canadians will strive for a top spot at the World Wheelchair Basketball Championships
- Remote Work to Accommodate Workers with a Disability
- New Ontario Throne Speech Offers More Mental Health and Addiction Supports, but Nothing New on Accessibility for 1.9 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Accessibility Advisory Committee is seeking new members
- City Pays $25K Fine for Not Calling Out OC Transpo Bus Stops
- AODA Alliance Writes New Ontario Conservative Leader Doug Ford to Request a Meeting to Brief Him and His Team on Pressing Disability Accessibility Issues in Ontario
- Petition Calls on Upper Canada Mall to Get Disabled Off Washroom Floor
- Fake Service Dogs a Menace for Legitimate Owners, Businesses Alike
- The Toronto Star Reports on Objections from the Disability Community to the Wynne Government’s Appointing Its Former Accessibility Special Advisor to Conduct the Next Independent Review of the Government’s Implementation and Enforcement of Ontario’s Accessibility Law
- Advocates Question Independence of Provincial Accessibility Review
- At Odds Over Parking Proposal
- Members of New Advisory Board Want Nova Scotia to Rethink Accessibility
- Province Selects The Honourable David C. Onley to Review Ontario’s Accessibility Laws
- Sorry, Not All Your Library Dreams are Going to Come True
- The 2018 AEBC/T-Base Scholarship Program is Accepting Applications
- Disabled Transit Users Pitch Ideas for Uber Accessibility Cash
- Pickering Asks Durham Region Transit for Changes to Accessible Services
- Blind Law Students Win ADA Suit
- New App Helps Disabled Drivers Refuel
- The Government of Canada Improves Accessibility for Canadians With Disabilities in Hamilton, Ontario
- OC Transpo Fined $25K for Failing to Call Out Bus Stops
- W3C Releases Video Introducing Web Accessibility and W3C Standards
- Woman Upset Via Wouldn’t Let Her Take Service Dogs on Train
- New Year, New AODA Rules ? Is Your Business Accessible ?
- Much Remains to Be Done When It Comes to Quality of Life and Safety
- King Street Pilot Project Sparks Accessibility Issues
- Santa Claus Parade Adds Accessibility Spaces
- Yellowknife’s Transit Leaves Disabled Residents Unable to Attend Public Meetings, Says Advocate
- Oshawa Mom Says Its Time to Replace Accessibility Symbol with a more Active Image
- How a Cool New Fuel App Helps Drivers With Disabilities
- Canada’s First National Accessibility Law Should Be Ready by Next Spring: Hehr
- Additional Regulation Isn’t Necessary to Resolve the Issue of Fake Service Animals
- Ontario Taking Steps to Increase Employment for People with Disabilities
- Blind Man Says Tribunal Ruling Aids in Discrimination
- Wheel-Trans users fear new program will force them to use inaccessible TTC
- Workers’ Comp is a Right!
- Driving a Taxi is Not a ‘Legal’ Right
- First Nations Monument to Be Shining Example of Accessibility
- Disabled Accessibility Law Gathering Support
- Burlington Woman in Wheelchair Calls Condo Hunting ‘An Unacceptable Nightmare’
- Prominent International Disability Advocate to Visit NZ
- Reminder: Reporting Compliance With AODA Accessibility Standards
- Prince Edward County Officials Decry ‘Unfortunate’ Case of Couple Denied B&B Over Service Dog
- Invictus Games are an Opportunity to Advocate for Disability Rights
- Legislation Would ‘Move the Needle’ on Accessibility in N.L.: Advocate
- Helping Retailers in Ontario Improve Accessibility
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- Tune in Online to the August 22, 2017 Conference on What the Promised National Accessibility Law Should Include
- Helping California National Parks Become More Accessible for Visually Impaired
- Court Report Confirms Dismal State of Sidewalks for Disabled New Yorkers
- On Accessibility, Ontario Needs Less Secrecy, More Action: Editorial
- City of Peterborough Launches Online Survey on Accessibility
- Privacy Commission Rules in Favour of Accessibility Advocacy Group
- Americans with Disabilities Act: An Epic Tragedy of Good Intentions
- Focus: Feds Can Improve Accessibility Legislation
- Ontario to Change Child Support Law to Give Adult Children With Disabilities Access to Parental Cash
- Press Release: Statement issued to Media by Durham Region Stroke Recovery Group, Whitby, Ont.
- Lawsuit for People Who Lived at CPRI in Ontario Between 1963 and 2011
- Supreme Court Rules on the Application of Human Rights Protections to Persons with Addictions Disabilities in Safety-Sensitive Employment Contexts
- ‘So many barriers’: Forum discusses jobs and accessibility
- Ontario’s 2017 David C. Onley Award Recipients
- Nova Scotia Accessibility Act Received Royal Assent
- Festival Showcases Disability and Deaf Cultures
- Accessibility Act to Make Province More Accessible
- Accessibility Advocates Want Ontario’s Wheelchair Symbol Changed
- Happy 150th Birthday Canada
- Opinion: Strong partnerships key to fully accessible Canada
- York Region Residents With Disabilities Demand Better Accessibility
- Accessibility Services’ Transition Day
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- Carmody Rips Overbearing Liberal Nanny State
- Bell Canada Discriminated Against Sick Woman by Making Her Go to Store: Tribunal
- Road Scraping Leaves Residents Frustrated
- Vaughan Accessibility Activist Randy McNeil Won’t Stop Pushing Changes
- Supreme Court Hears Case Today on Disabled Children and Public Schools
- Design Exchange and Ontario Government Announce Post-Secondary Design Competition
- Humber Media Program Marks New Inclusiveness
- Ontario Helping Protect People with Developmental Disabilities
- Milton Chamber Event Focuses on AODA Legislation
- Councillors to Review LTC Discount Fares
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- Miami University Reaches Justice Department Consent Decree to Improve Technology Access for Students With Disabilities
- WCAG 2.1 Under Exploration, Comments Requested by 1 November
- Sunny Ways? More Accessibility Legislation Coming
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- Changes to SSAH Funding and ODSP Applications for People who Receive Developmental Services
- Spotlight on Wheel-Trans and AODA at TTC Accessibility Forum
- Hurt Workers Forced Into ‘Humiliating’ Jobs
- TTC Still Has ‘Big Ticket Items’ to Address When it Comes to Accessibility
- Pedestrian Crossover to Be Installed in Waterdown
- Ontario Won’t Close Schools for Deaf and Blind Children
- Planning Accessible Events
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- Conflicting Accessible Parking Signs Cause Confusion at Algonquin College
- Update on the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- City Boosts LIMO Transit Service to Better Serve Ridership
- EHRC Announces Its Newest Project to Support Those With Disabilities in the Workplace
- Blind Man Denied Service From Uber Over Guide Dog
- TTC Investigating After Frustrated Man in Wheelchair Faces Off With Bus After Lengthy Wait
- Gananoque Disbands Accessibility Advisory Committee
- Extra 10 Seconds at Lights for Pedestrians Along Algonquin/101
- TTC Wheel-Trans services are changing
- Ontario Missing Mark on Accessibility Standards, Activist Says
- ACTION LINE: How consumers with a disability can encounter prejudice, discrimination
- New Ontario Accessibility Rules Inadequate: Critic
- Understanding of Accessibility Continues to Thrive
- Despite Ongoing Issues, Ontario Plans to Reduce Small Business Accessibility Requirements
- Major Gaps in Ontario Disability Act When it Comes to Service Dogs
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- Police Unveil Text-to-911 Service for Hearing Impaired
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- York Student Wins Mental-Health Fight; University Will No Longer Require Medical Diagnosis Before Providing Academic Accommodations
- Report Calls for New Name, New Rules for Handi Transit
- City of Toronto Grapples with Accessible Parking Permit Abuse
- Law Commission of Ontario Releases Final Report and Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- Kathleen Wynne is Second Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Make Disability Accessibility Commitments
- Sandra Pupatello is First Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Make Commitments on Making Ontario Fully Accessible to Over 1.7 Million Ontarians With Disabilities
- McGuinty Government Takes Steps to Streamline Process for Developing New Accessibility Standards Under the AODA
- AODA Alliance Makes Public an Open Letter to All Candidates for Leadership of Ontario’s Liberal Party, Seeking Commitments on Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities
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- Group Home Location Bylaws Pit Ontario Cities Against Human Rights Watchdog
- Call For Proposals For Enabling Accessibility Fund
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- Wheelchair Users Pay More for Taxis
- Barriers to Equality Persist in Ontario
- What is the Latest Word on Progress That the Ontario Government has Made Towards Implementing the AODA, Across the Board and in the Area of Information Technology?
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- Muskoka Looking to Brand Itself as an Accessible Tourist Destination
- Accessibility Kawartha Lakes Hosts Inaccessible Luncheon!
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- 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS COMPLETE WITH A GUARANTEE OF EQUALITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
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- AODA Alliance: Two quick ways you can help our accessibility campaign
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- City not compliant on transit access
- Human Rights Review Bypasses Thunder Bay
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- LOCATION OF JANUARY 27, 2012 TORONTO PUBLIC FORUM ON WORLD REPORT ON DISABILITIES IS MOVED TO LET MORE ATTEND THANKS TO LARGE DEMAND
- AODA Alliance Urges Pinto Human Rights Review to Give the Public More Time to Give Input Into Ontario’s Human Rights System
- Government of Canada Supports Accessibility for Canadians with Disabilities in Ontario
- Sign Up – to Tell the Pinto Human Rights Code Review What You Think of the McGuinty Government’s Privatizing Human Rights Enforcement
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- To Mark International Day for People With Disabilities, AODA Alliance Identifies Major Actions Needed by Key Ontario Cabinet Ministers to Advance Ontario Towards Full Accessibility
- Better Service for Disabled Key Goal of New Policy
- Disabled community left in the cold
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- Persons With Disabilities Are Still Waiting for Action: OFL Statement for International Day of Persons With Disabilities, 2011
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- Everyone Has a Role to Play
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- Please Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Request of the Human Rights Tribunal, Human Rights Commission and Human Rights Legal Support Centre to Disclose Details on Enforcement of Human Rights in Ontario
- City Fails Human Rights Test
- AODA Alliance: 10 Year Anniversary of Another Important Date in Our 17-Year-Long Campaign for a Barrier-Free Ontario
- AODA Alliance Writes New Minister Responsible for the AODA to List Key Accessibility Priorities
- Law Grad’s Discrimination Claim Denied Once Again
- A Wait on Wait Times
- AODA Alliance: What We Accomplished in Our Successful 2011 Election Campaign for Accessibility
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- Fully Accessible Voting Not Yet A Reality in Ontario- A Priority for Our Next Legislature – and Listen to AODA Alliance Chair’s Interview on CFRB Radio
- On Live TV, AODA Alliance Chair Asks PC Leader Tim Hudak for Disability Accessibility Election Commitment
- Tim Hudak Says He is Committed to Fulfilling Provisions of the Disabilities Act, But Still Hasn’t Clearly Promised Not to Slash Regulations Enacted Under It
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- Tories Silent on Accessibility Improvements for Disabled
- PC Candidate Agrees to Urge Tim Hudak to Make Accessibility Commitments – And Other Media Election Coverage of Disability Accessibility Issues
- Toronto Star Reports That Conservatives Promise to Cut at Least 30% of Ontario Regulations – Are New Accessibility Regulations on That Large Chopping Block?
- Blind Woman Can’t Hitch a Ride with DARTS, Can’t Get to Work
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- Law Commission of Ontario Releases Consultation Paper on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- Disability Coalition Unveils Major Political Parties’ Election Pledges to over 1.5 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, at Queen’s Park News Conference
- 2010-2011 Annual Report celebrates 50 years of OHRC
- AODA Alliance Makes Presentation to Standing Committee of Manitoba Legislature on Need for Strong Accessibility Legislation
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- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s May 19, 2011 Public Forum on Barriers to Accessibility in Public Transit
- The City of Hamilton Offers Disabled Golfers a Chance to Play With Unique Cart
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- Updated: “Essential Accessibility” is “Not Essential to Meeting the Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR)
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- Call for Submissions: 2011/12 EnAbling Change Partnership Program, The Accessibility Directorate of Ontario
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- Reveal Human Rights Review Findings: Mother
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- Court Rules That Federal Inaccessible Government Websites Violate the Constitutional Rights of Blind Canadians –Strong Reason for McGuinty Government to Substantially Strengthen its Weak Proposed Information and Communication Accessibility Standard
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- AODA Alliance Gets McGuinty Government to Take a Second Look at Presto Smart Card Disability Barriers -But Government Won’t Halt Presto’s Deployment Until Barriers are Removed
- Examining Ontario’s New Disability Law
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- An Open Letter From the CEO – and a Call To Action for Canadian Employers
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- Potential Changes for the Next Edition of the Building Code: First Round of Consultation (October – November 2010)
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- First Day of Public Hearings Show Resounding Support for Our Call for Bill 231 to be Strengthened to Ensure Fully Accessible Elections for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Faculty members get a lesson in AODA
- Ontario Throne Speech Makes Progress on Disability Accessibility A Priority for the McGuinty Government
- OC Transpo Receives Penalty for Failing to Call Out Stops
- Seeing-Eye Dog Refused Entry to Restaurant
- Guelph Man Gets His Wheelchair-Accessible Door
- Accessibility Standards for Customer Service: A Student Perspective
- “Coalition on Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities”
- Accessibility Being Tackled in Chatham-Kent
- Businesses Honoured for Accessibility
- City Council Chambers equipped to serve people with hearing loss
- Calling all Accessibility Advisory Committees (AAC) of Ontario, your voice needs to be heard!
- Talking Elevator Makes City Hall More Accessible
- Landlord Must Pay $10,000 to Disabled Tenant Refused Transfer
- AODA Alliance Calls on All Parties to Strengthen Bill 231 to Prevent More Inaccessible Elections in Ontario
- Inaccessible Toronto Polling Station in February 4, 2010 Provincial By-election Highlights Urgent Need for Strong Provincial Legislation to Ensure Accessible Provincial and Municipal Elections
- Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act Alliance Chair’s 2009 Year-end Report
- Ontario’s Disabled Fighting to Protect Their Voting Rights
- Man in Wheelchair has Trouble Voting in Toronto Centre Byelection
- Mobility Transit Draws Fire
- Municipal Bylaws Must Follow Human Rights Code: OMB
- Angled Intersection Presents Challenges
- Accessibility Challenges Still Ahead for Port Hope
- Lawyers Say Justice not Being Served
- Toronto Community Housing to make buildings more accessible
- Who Will Pay for Province’s Generous Plan for Full Accessibility?
- Township Investigates Electronic Voting
- Accessibility Group Gets Small Pay Raise
- CBC Radio1 Ottawa Interviews Minister Meilleur on the Customer Care Standard
- More barriers drop
- Public Buildings to be Accessible in 2010
- Mail-in Votes Spell End to Ballot Boxes in Essex County
- New Rules Aim to Help Ontarians with Disabilities
- City ready for new accessibility standard
- Accessible Tasting for All
- Cobourg Customer-Service Policy Targets Accessibility
- Ground-breaking Legal Victory for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Kitchener-Waterloo Adopt New Standards to Ensure Citizens with Disabilities Have Access to Services
- Customer Service Standard Key to Inclusiveness
- Ongoing Issues with Downtown Audible Signals
- Disabled Denied Sidewalk Snow Removal
- Access denied
- Doing it Right
- Councillors Consider Best Way to Make Accessibility Changes in city
- But Accessibility is too Expensive
- Provincial Government Should be Setting the Example for New Website Launches
- Chamber Hears About Accessibility Act
- Site Check Certifications, Who Can You Trust?
- Final Proposed Accessible Employment Standard
- Status of the A.O.D.A
- Customer Service a Mindset
- Accessibility Focus of Next Scugog Chamber Meeting
- Handicapped Parking Fines Eyed
- Barriers Will Face Us All as We Get Older
- Setting the Bar
- Accessibility Plan ’Investment for All‘
- Access a Right, Says Commissioner
- Travel Woes of the Disabled in Our Community
- New Information and Some Changed Dates for Charles Beer’s Public Forums on How to Improve the AODA
- Deadline Looms for Accessibility Law
- New Provincial Accessibility Regulations Affect New Business and Major Renovations
- More services available for learning disabled
- Critics Barking Over Carleton Place ‘Service Dog’
- New Accessibility Standards Will Affect Public and Private Sectors
- School Board Re-commits to Accessibility Plan
- AODA Transportation Standards Will Compromise on Safety!
- Jan. 1 is Deadline
- King on Board with Accessibility Standards
- Accessible Buildings a Balancing Act
- Making Buildings More Accessible
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- Category: Transportation
- Trains, Buses to be More Accessible in Mississauga, Brampton, Hamilton and Beyond
- New Campaign Highlights Public Transit Accessibility Features
- On-Demand Transit a Boon for City’s Residents With Accessibility Needs
- Accessibility for All; Grimsby Resident Battles for More Accessible Transit
- Wheel-Trans Users Express Frustrations as Ransomware Attack Leaves Them Unable to Book New Rides
- London Transit Partners with MagnusCards to Make Conventional Bus Service More Accessible
- Ottawa Ride-Sharing Companies Agree to Hike Accessibility Fee to 10 Cents Per Ride
- Committee Upholds T.O. e- Scooter Ban
- Shared E-scooters Will Make Ottawa’s Streets and Sidewalks More Dangerous
- Waterloo’s Free Rides to Vaccine Clinics Are Not Wheelchair-Accessible
- Canada and Ontario Invest in Accessible Public Transit Infrastructure for Residents of Peel Region
- Accessibility Advocates Call for Constant Sound to Be Emitted By Ottawa e-Scooters in 2021
- Bus Driver with One Eye Wins Discrimination Case; Judge Nixes Ontario Licence Rule
- ‘They Were Given 20 Years’ – TTC Warns It Will Be Hard to Hit 2025 Target to Make the Subway Accessible
- Provincial Disability Coalition Urges Ottawa City Council to Reject Impending Proposal to Allow Electric Scooters that Endanger People with Disabilities and Others
- E-Scooters Set to Hit Ottawa Streets, Paths This Year
- Stratford Residents to Benefit From New Public Transit Infrastructure and Accessible Buses
- Mayor Wants Report on Allowing Kick-Style e-Scooters in Thunder Bay
- LINX Plus Service for People With Disabilities in Simcoe County Could Be Enhanced
- ‘No Other Options’: People With Disabilities Isolated by Transit Strike, Advocate says
- Crackdown on Illegal Use of Accessible Parking Spots Continues
- TransLink has Approved $7 Million in Funding to Upgrade the Transit System for the Visually Impaired.
- Wheel-Trans Users Fear Loss of Service Under TTC’s Plans to Have Thousands Reassessed
- Is Taxi Surcharge to Fund Accessible Cab Subsidy ‘Too Little, too Late’?
- LRT and Bus Accessibility: ‘I Need to Know How to Get to Work’
- Press Release: Toronto Pearson First Airport in Canada to Offer Innovative Technology to Improve Accessibility for Travellers with Sight Loss
- Give Blind LRT Riders Enough Time to Prepare, Advocates Urge
- Cost, Demand for DARTS Accessible Transit Service Continues to Grow
- Mentally Disabled Man Anxious About Presto After Transit Card Problems Nearly Left Him Stranded
- MAAC Hopes to Entice Cab Owners to Acquire Accessible Taxis
- Lawyer Says Niagara Transit Changes Violate Disabilities Act
- Be My Eyes and Moovit Join Forces to Make Public Transit More Accessible
- TTC Posts $73M Budget Surplus Due to Drop in Wheel-Trans Demand, Clampdown on Benefits Fraud
- Some People Are Using Accessible Parking Permits of Relatives Who’ve Died, police say
- Ailing Senior Says Greyhound Gave Her a Rough Ride
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