Powerful New Video Reveals Serious Accessibility Problems at new Downtown Toronto Mega-Courthouse

AODA Alliance, August 8, 2024
Disability Advocates' Powerful New Video Reveals Serious Accessibility Problems at new Downtown Toronto Mega-Courthouse. A Billion-Dollar Accessibility Bungle Shows Ontario Falling Further Behind Schedule for Becoming Disability Accessible by 2025.

The AODA Alliance today makes public a striking new 14-minute video (and a more detailed 50-minute version) exposing significant disability accessibility barriers in a new public billion-dollar government building in the heart of downtown Toronto, built with public money. This video documents serious accessibility problems at the new Toronto Armoury Street Courthouse. AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky, himself totally blind, guides you on a tour of barriers that hurt people with blindness, low vision, hearing disabilities, mobility disabilities, autism, dyslexia, chronic fatigue or pain, and others.
The AODA Alliance video shows what can happen when accessibility and usability standard design features are not fully included in the planning phase. This should be of interest to municipalities planning city revitalization projects. Communities concerned with disability inclusion must ensure all stakeholders are active participants in city planning. Goodwill and best intentions are not good enough.