Mohawk College faces criticism for cancelling program geared to help people with disabilities

Kate McCullough, Hamilton Spectator Reporter, June 30, 2022
When a blind disability advocate reached out to Mohawk College to complain they’d cancelled a program that trains students to develop accessible media, he received a response in a format he couldn’t fully read. The irony of the situation was not lost on David Lepofsky, chair of advocacy group Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) Alliance — given the right to have documents that are accessible to all was one of the things he was fighting for. The Hamilton community college has been under scrutiny since suspending AMP, the only known program of its sort in Canada, earlier this month. It trains students to develop documents, websites, social media and video accessible to people with disabilities.