Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities Act

• Ontario’s 2025 accessibility goals impossible without urgent action, report finds

  Ontario will fail to meet its goal of making the province accessible for people with disabilities by 2025 unless the government takes urgent action, a new report has found.

  Canada

  Mar 10, 2023
  
• Ontario PCs won’t commit to accessibility improvements, disability advocate says

  David Lepofsky, a blind lawyer, chairs the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, a non-partisan group that campaigns for disability and accessibility reform.

  Politics

  May 25, 2022
  
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• Companies under pressure to comply with Ontario’s new website accessibility standards

  All private-sector and not-for-profit organizations with more than 50 employees could be fined for failing to ensure their website complies with rules that took effect in January.

  Canada

  Jun 3, 2021
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• ‘I need help’: Coronavirus highlights disparities among Canadians with disabilities

  In Canada, one in four Canadians — about 25 per cent of the population — has a disability. Despite this, advocates say they are often left out of emergency planning. 

  Canada

  May 6, 2020
• London to prevent vehicles for hire from charging disabled people extra fees

  The new regulation is meant to enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, which already makes it illegal to charge someone with a disability an extra fee.

  Canada

  Oct 1, 2019
• Video showing difficulty navigating snow-covered York University sidewalk in wheelchair raises broader concerns

  The video was posted on social media on Thursday by student Ali Imrie as she tried to make her way to her on-campus home. Imrie can be seen in her wheelchair as a friend struggles to push her through a university-owned, snow-covered sidewalk near her home.

  Canada

  Feb 1, 2019
• Ontario election: Disability advocates hope new government will revisit accessibility law

  The three main parties have all made pledges or even explicit platform commitments geared toward the estimated 1.9 million Ontarians living with physical, intellectual or developmental disabilities.

  Politics

  Jun 4, 2018
• Ontario privacy commission says province overcharged group

  Ontario's privacy commission ordered the $4,200 fee quoted by the provincial government be reduced to $750.

  Canada

  Jul 31, 2017
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• Back online: Council votes to put videos on website, YouTube

  In less than 72 hours since the videos were first removed, London City Council unanimously passed a motion to repost public domain videos of their meetings back on the city’s website and YouTube channel.

  Politics

  Feb 3, 2017