Ontario Responds to Recommendations from Mayo Moran’s Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, June 3, 2015 The review and report, by Provost Mayo Moran, Vice Chancellor and Provost of Trinity College at the University of Toronto, is helping to chart the course to an accessible Ontario by 2025. The Ontario government was…
Ontario Launches Accessibility Action Plan, News Release, June 3, 2015 The AODA has transformed the lives of people with disabilities by establishing standards in key areas of daily life, including customer service, employment, information and communications, transportation and the design of public spaces. The Path to 2025, Ontario’s Accessibility Action Plan, was Introduced on the…
Published February 13, 2015, 79 Pages Led by Mayo Moran, Provost and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Toronto’s Trinity College. Read the statement given by Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure, on the release of the report, NewsRoom, February 13, 2015 And read the two media reports Ontario needs to boost accessibility…
TVOntario The Agenda With Steve Paikin, February 2, 2015 Watch the interview with David Onley and David Lepofsky, on the need for the Ontario Government to take decisive new action to get Ontario back on schedule to reach full accessibility for people with disabilities by 2025, as the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act requires.
Christopher Lytle, principle consultant and owner of Christopher Lytle Consulting, January 5, 2015 The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act should be viewed as a living document. So far there have been two independent reviews of the AODA, the first completed by Mr. Charles Beer and the second, which has yet to be released, authored…
Bob Hepburn, Toronto Star, November 29, 2014 On Friday, November 28, 2014, the non-partisan Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance, held a celebration at Queen’s Park to mark the birth of this grassroots movement to make Ontario barrier-free. Back in 1994, David Lepofsky and 20 other people walked down a corridor at Queen’s Park…
Ontario Government News, October 24, 2014 Ontario has appointed The Honourable David C. Onley as a special advisor on accessibility to champion opportunities for people of all abilities in the public and private sectors. As special advisor, he will work closely with Brad Duguid, Minister of Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure, to continue breaking down…
Yosie Saint-Cyr, Slaw Canada’s online legal magazine, October 1, 2014 Despite concerns from many that the government was lagging in its enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), the Accessibility Directorate of Ontario (ADO) has been issuing orders to comply with the Act, particularly the section 14 requirement to produce and file…
HR Blog by Stringer LLP, September 30, 2014 This summer, the License Appeal Tribunal, which has jurisdiction over the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (the AODA), released its first decisions pertaining to AODA compliance. When the first compliance deadlines under the AODA rolled around there did not seem to be much enforcement activity….
US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, Washington press release, September 18, 2014 At the Senate HELP Committee hearing Fulfilling the Promise: Overcoming Persistent Barriers to Economic Self-Sufficiency for People with Disabilities, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, unveiled a report that he instructed…
