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- Wrong to Quash Public Debate on Bill 107
- Make Information Accessible
- Right This Way Access Consulting
- Badeyes Design and Consulting
- A Way With WordsGuidelines For The Portrayal Of People With A Disability
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Blind Employees But Were Reluctant to Ask
- Five Assistive Technologies You Should Be Aware Of
- How People With Disabilities Use The Web
- Legal Rights For People Who Use Service Animals
- Make Buildings And Spaces Accessible
- Make Your Workplace Accessible
- Plan an Accessible Meeting
- The Four Levels Of PDF Accessibility
- Understanding The Needs Of Persons With Disabilities (PWD’s)
- Web Accessibility For Screen Magnifier Users
- What Does Accessibility mean
- What is a Screen Reader
- Why Accessibility Is Good For Your Business
- Interviewing and Working with People who have Disabilities
- Making Buildings More Accessible
- Accessible Buildings a Balancing Act
- King on Board with Accessibility Standards
- Jan. 1 is Deadline
- AODA Transportation Standards Will Compromise on Safety!
- School Board Re-commits to Accessibility Plan
- New Accessibility Standards Will Affect Public and Private Sectors
- Critics Barking Over Carleton Place ‘Service Dog’
- More services available for learning disabled
- New Provincial Accessibility Regulations Affect New Business and Major Renovations
- Deadline Looms for Accessibility Law
- New Information and Some Changed Dates for Charles Beer’s Public Forums on How to Improve the AODA
- Travel Woes of the Disabled in Our Community
- Access a Right, Says Commissioner
- Accessibility Plan ’Investment for All‘
- Setting the Bar
- Barriers Will Face Us All as We Get Older
- Handicapped Parking Fines Eyed
- Accessibility Focus of Next Scugog Chamber Meeting
- Customer Service a Mindset
- Status of the A.O.D.A
- Final Proposed Accessible Employment Standard
- Site Check Certifications, Who Can You Trust?
- Chamber Hears About Accessibility Act
- Provincial Government Should be Setting the Example for New Website Launches
- Tim Hortons Boycotts Veterans and People with Disabilities:
- The McGuinty Government has Done Little to Keep 2007 Election Promise on Educating Students and Professional Trainees on Disability Accessibility
- But Accessibility is too Expensive
- Making Your Home Accessible
- Councillors Consider Best Way to Make Accessibility Changes in city
- Doing it Right
- Access denied
- Disabled Denied Sidewalk Snow Removal
- Ongoing Issues with Downtown Audible Signals
- Customer Service Standard Key to Inclusiveness
- Kitchener-Waterloo Adopt New Standards to Ensure Citizens with Disabilities Have Access to Services
- Ground-breaking Legal Victory for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Cobourg Customer-Service Policy Targets Accessibility
- Accessible Tasting for All
- City ready for new accessibility standard
- New Rules Aim to Help Ontarians with Disabilities
- Customer Care Standard is now Law but Still Lacks Teeth
- Mail-in Votes Spell End to Ballot Boxes in Essex County
- Public Buildings to be Accessible in 2010
- More barriers drop
- CBC Radio1 Ottawa Interviews Minister Meilleur on the Customer Care Standard
- Accessibility Group Gets Small Pay Raise
- Township Investigates Electronic Voting
- Tips for Webmasters: Improve Your Websites’ Accessibility
- Who Will Pay for Province’s Generous Plan for Full Accessibility?
- Toronto Community Housing to make buildings more accessible
- Lawyers Say Justice not Being Served
- Accessibility Challenges Still Ahead for Port Hope
- Angled Intersection Presents Challenges
- Municipal Bylaws Must Follow Human Rights Code: OMB
- Mobility Transit Draws Fire
- Man in Wheelchair has Trouble Voting in Toronto Centre Byelection
- Ontario’s Disabled Fighting to Protect Their Voting Rights
- Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act Alliance Chair’s 2009 Year-end Report
- 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
- AODA Alliance Calls on All Parties to Strengthen Bill 231 to Prevent More Inaccessible Elections in Ontario
- Landlord Must Pay $10,000 to Disabled Tenant Refused Transfer
- Talking Elevator Makes City Hall More Accessible
- Calling all Accessibility Advisory Committees (AAC) of Ontario, your voice needs to be heard!
- City Council Chambers equipped to serve people with hearing loss
- Businesses Honoured for Accessibility
- Accessibility Being Tackled in Chatham-Kent
- “Coalition on Emergency Preparedness for People With Disabilities”
- Accessibility Standards for Customer Service: A Student Perspective
- Guelph Man Gets His Wheelchair-Accessible Door
- Seeing-Eye Dog Refused Entry to Restaurant
- OC Transpo Receives Penalty for Failing to Call Out Stops
- Ontario Throne Speech Makes Progress on Disability Accessibility A Priority for the McGuinty Government
- Faculty members get a lesson in AODA
- 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
- AODA Alliance – Disability advocates slam weak elections Bill
- Website Accessibility for the Blind Gaining Ground
- University Fails to Consult Union on AODA Implementation
- Disabled Parking Spots Still Abused, Advocates Say
- Polling Station Was Spiked By Volleyball Game
- Rising Concern About Elevator, Accessibility at Durham Arena
- Essex County Accessibility Advisory Committee (AAC) Leads the Way!
- Disabled Voters Snubbed
- Lieutenant-Governor Talks Accessibility at Ajax Event
- AODA Alliance Updates
- A Chance to Make it Right for Disabled Voters
- Electronic Voting on the Rise
- McGuinty Government Proposes New Amendments to Bill 231 to Soften its Ban on Network-Connected Accessible Voting Technology Like Telephone Voting and Internet Voting
- Everyone’s Suddenly Become an ‘Accessibility Expert’
- No Online Option
- Cobourg Held Up as Pioneer in Accessible Voting
- HWDSB Opens its Doors to Be More Accessible and Inclusive
- Bad Eyes Sees the PDF Light
- Accessibility at Universities is ‘a Moral Obligation’: Advocate
- Accessibility Finally Within Reach
- Ontario Marks National Access Awareness Week
- The Strength and Potential of Municipal Accessibility Advisory Committees (MAACs)
- National Access Awareness Week
- Open Letter to Members of the AODA Alliance
- Many Thanks to Accessibility Advisory Committees
- AODA Alliance Releases its Detailed Analysis of the Charles Beer Independent Review Report on the Effectiveness of the Government’s Implementation of the AODA
- Will the McGuinty Government Fully Implement the Recommendations of the Government-Appointed Charles Beer Independent Review of the AODA?
- Releasing Constraints: The Impacts of Increased Accessibility on Ontario’s Economy
- Mcguinty Government Uses Public Tax Dollars to Develop Public Transit Smart Cards with Barriers Against People With Disabilities
- Will the McGuinty Government Keep Its Election Promise of Effective Enforcement for the AODA?
- Henderson: Enough with the Talk. It’s Time for Action.
- Accept No Substitutes!
- The OHRC Introduces a New Resource for Human Rights and Mental Health
- Integrating People With Disabilities (PWD) Into the Workplace
- Terminating a Disabled Employee Can Be a Costly Decision
- Open Letter – Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA)
- Disabled Ontarians Can’t Access New Transit Payment Method
- Celebrating Us!
- Political Candidates Shouldn’t Pay for Accessibility: Report
- Annual Report 2009-2010: Educate Empower Act
- No Paper Ballots for Cobourg
- McGuinty Government Issues Weak Final Response to Beer Independent Review of AODA
- AODA Alliance Calls on Ontario Government to Halt Deployment of Presto Public Transit Smart Card System Until Disability Barriers are Removed
- City of Toronto 2010 Municipal Election Accessibility Plan
- Government Turns It’s Back on Intelectually Disabled Adults
- Police Constable Experiencing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Should Have Been Accommodated on the Job
- Ottawa Makes Voting Easier for Disabled
- Blind Student Checks Tech for College’s Accessibility
- Tim Hortons Entraps Toronto Police Service
- Accessible Housing a Right: PUSH
- School Board Loses Rights Complaint
- Was the Ontario Government Forewarned That the Presto Smart Card Technology for Paying PUBLIC Transit Fares has Disability Barriers?
- Please Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Brief to Elections Ontario on Proposed Polling Station and Returning Office Site Accessibility Standard
- Premier Leaves it to Community and Social Services Minister to Respond to Beer Report
- Blind Voter Lashes Out Over City’s Mail-In Ballots
- McGuinty Government Gives 45 Days for Public Comment on Its Just-Rleased Summary of Proposed New Accessibility Standards
- Voter Access Improved: city News
- TRANSIT: Niagara GO Service Now Takes Wheelchairs
- CITY TV Reporter Leaves T.O. — Accessibility an Issue
- Posting of Final Proposed Accessible Built Environment Standard/Publication de la proposition finale de Norme d’accessibilité au milieu bâti
- Accommodating Candidates With Disabilities
- Making the Law Work for Persons with Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Update: Send Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief on the Government’s Summary of Proposed Integrated Accessibility Standard
- Disabled Only Ones to Make Concessions in Kawartha Lakes Council’s Election “Compromise”
- Province Discriminates Against Addicts, Court Finds
- What would Rick do?
- Accessibility Reforms ‘Very Weak’
- Shoppers Drug Mart / Home Health Care(SHHC) Service Inadequate
- Accessibility on TTC Needs Work, Residents Say
- From the Floor Up, Library Improves Accessibility Services
- Transit Raises Accessibility Concerns
- Council Angry Over AODA Proposals
- Brief of the AODA Alliance to the Ontario Government on its September 2, 2010 Summary of the Proposed Integrated Accessibility Standard
- Potential Changes for the Next Edition of the Building Code: First Round of Consultation (October – November 2010)
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Slams McGuinty Government’s Proposed Integrated Accessibility Standard as Falling Short of Human Rights Requirements
- New Measures to Help Disabled Vote
- Human Rights Legal Support Centre Serves Town of Whitby
- Government Turns It’s Back on Intelectually Disabled Adults, Yet Again
- Disabled Rights Activist Challenges Guelph’s Bookshelf Over Accessibility
- Transit Fighter Loses Human Rights Battle
- An Open Letter From the CEO – and a Call To Action for Canadian Employers
- Are You an AccessaPhobe?
- Nunziata Denies Accusations of Harassment
- LDAO supports the right of students with ADHD to equitable access to special education in Ontario
- Beware the “Enhancement” Masquerading as “Accessibility”
- Partnering Design and Accessibility
- McGuinty Government Should Lead by Example
- Employment for People with Disabilities
- OHRC Launches Survey on Discrimination Based on Mental Health and Addiction Disabilities
- Accessibility Challenges
- Examining Ontario’s New Disability Law
- 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
- AODA Alliance Calls on Elections Ontario to Provide Internet and Telephone Voting and More Than One Accessible Voting Machine Per Riding in the October 2011 Ontario Election
- AODA Alliance Asks McGuinty Government to Report on its Efforts on Unkept 2007 Election Promises
- Full ccessibility in Kerr Hall ‘Just Impossible’
- Your PDF’s are like Rolls of Toilet Paper!
- Join Our Call for Strong New Accessibility Standards – and Distribute Our New Leaflet!
- Accessibility Barriers Result In Feeling of Isolation
- Will the McGuinty Government Restore as a Full-Time Position the Vital Post of Assistant Deputy Minister of Government Services for Accessibility?
- OFL Statement for International Day of Persons With Disabilities (December 3, 2010)
- 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
- What a Screen Reader Is Not!
- Access Watchdog Blasts City For PDFs of Minutes
- Becoming Accessible
- Rights and Wrongs
- Disabilities Call for Papers
- Customer Service Standard Not Worth the Paper It’s Printed On!
- Reveal Human Rights Review Findings: Mother
- The Sound of Accommodation: Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Watchdog’s Request Reasonable: Reader
- Disability Rights Activist Still Waiting For a Fully Accessible Transit System
- Equal Access Delayed is Equal Access Denied!
- Local Businesses Confused By Customer Service Legislation
- The Bus Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore; Disabled Passengers Turned Away From Stops They’ve Used for Years
- Voting Process Meets Accessibility Standards
- AODA Alliance Update: 2011 Priorities in Our Accessibility Campaign
- McGuinty Government Makes Public New Draft Regulation to Address Barriers in Transportation, Information, Communications and Employment – We have 45 Days to Give the Government Feedback
- There’s No Need To Fear the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
- Accessibility Carries Price Tag
- Legal Setback for Election Do-Over
- Call for Submissions: 2011/12 EnAbling Change Partnership Program, The Accessibility Directorate of Ontario
- Human Rights Commission Warns Municipalities AND Municipal Transit Authorities to Ensure That All New Buses are Accessible, Despite Anything Less in McGuinty Government’s Proposed Accessibility Standard
- Mental Health the Final Frontier in Diversity
- Training Resource for Small Businesses and Organizations
- Procrastination Not Good for Compliance
- New Act Knocks Down Barriers
- Accessibility Must Happen
- Some Businesses Could Become More Accessible
- Accessibility Hot Topic at School Review Meeting
- Please Tell the McGuinty Government if You Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Brief on the Draft Integrated Accessibility Regulation
- AODA: Common Misconceptions About Proposed Accessible Built Environment Standard
- Accessibility is Opportunity for All
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Blasts Government’s Draft Accessibility Regulation as Raising Serious Problems Under the Human Rights Code
- Few Businesses Accessible, Survey Finds
- Disability Policy Fails Student
- Council Web Accessibility ‘Should Be Built Into Procurement’
- City Violated Rights of Disabled Ex-Aide
- City of Kawartha Lakes Thumbs Its Nose at the AODA!
- AODA Alliance: Help Us Respond to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s and the Public Transit Sector’s Efforts to Weaken the Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR) and to Delay its Enactment
- Canada, Labour and Employment, The Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities Act, 2005: Preparing Your Organization For Compliance – McCarthy Tétrault
- OCAD U Sees an Accessible Future with New Master Program in Inclusive Design
- Accessibility Action Plan for the 2011 Provincial General Election
- Make Sure the Polling Station for You in the October 2011 Election is Accessible to Voters with Disabilities
- AODA and the Relationship with the Ontario Human Rights Code
- AODA Alliance Update: Three Quick Ways You Can Help Promote Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities
- Henderson: It’s Time to Make Polls Fully Accessible
- Is Your Polling Station at Today’s Federal Election Accessible – If Not, Make Sure Elections Ontario Doesn’t Use the Same Site for Voting in the October 2011 Ontario Election
- At AODA Alliance’s Request, Elections Ontario Extends Deadline to June 3, 2011 to Give Feedback on Accessibility of Proposed October 2011 Election’s Polling Station Locations
- Legislation Will Enforce Disability-Friendly Service
- Accessibility Standards Prioritize Safety
- The City of Hamilton Offers Disabled Golfers a Chance to Play With Unique Cart
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s May 19, 2011 Public Forum on Barriers to Accessibility in Public Transit
- Sarnia City Council and Mayor Distance Themselves From Association of Municipalities of Ontario’s Call for the Proposed Provincial Accessibility Regulation to be Weakened – Get Your Municipality to do the Same!
- OC Transpo Formalizes its Accessible Customer Service Policy
- A Setback for Disability Rights
- AODA: Inappropriate Words Can Bite – the Customer Service Standard
- Accessibility Advocate Calls for ‘Barrier Buster’ Actions at Guelph Conference
- MCGuinty Government to Make Public the Finalized Enacted Integrated Accessibility Regulation this Friday
- Major Development in Our Campaign for a Fully Accessible Ontario – McGuinty Government Enacts Integrated Accessibility Regulation -Addressing Barriers in Information and Communication, Employment and Transportation
- Toronto Transit Commission to Adopt Presto Smart Card – BUT Will TTC and the City of Toronto Ensure Ontario Makes it Barrier-Free Before Implementing it?
- Loss of Full-Serve Stations Hurts Seniors, Disabled: Council
- McGuinty Government Dodges our Request that Presto Smart Card Not be Installed at TTC Until Fully Accessible – but AODA Alliance Presses Again for a Clear Commitment
- New Integrated Standards Posted to AODA Site
- New Accessibility Standards Impact Ontario Restaurants
- Ontario Business Faces Accessibility Laws
- Service Animals and People With Disabilities – AODA Best Practices
- Complying with the Integrated Accessibility Regulation (IAR): Captioning and Describing Web Videos
- Government Cancels Fund to Accommodate Ontario Public Servants With Disabilities in the Workplace – But Restores it When AODA Alliance Challenges its Cancellation
- AODA Alliance Makes Presentation to Standing Committee of Manitoba Legislature on Need for Strong Accessibility Legislation
- Accessibility Lessons Ontario Can Learn From the West
- To Meet Accessibility Standards, Windsor to Close 40 Playgrounds
- Major Victory for Ontarians with Disabilities – McGuinty Government Enshrines Accessibility Requirements in its New 10-Year Infrastructure Plan
- When Will a Built Environment Accessibility Standard be Enacted?
- Thumbs Up Program: Helpful or Misleading?
- What is the Future for Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario?
- Accessibility Rules for New Builds Only
- AODA Alliance Writes Three Political Parties to Request 2011 Election Commitments
- 2010-2011 Annual Report celebrates 50 years of OHRC
- The Accessibility Lesson Which My Co-Workers and I Learned During Dinner
- AODA: Why Do I Have to Notify the Public When There is a Disruption of Services?
- Accessibility Barrier at Whitby Building Traps Disabled Man
- Everyone Deserves Access to Opportunities
- Station Schedule Off Track: Patron
- Accessible Technology Increasingly a Requirement for Businesses
- Some Voters Will Cast Ballot at Home
- Why Does Society Hate the Blind so Much?
- AODA administrative Monetary Penalties Scheme – Three Strikes You’re Out!
- The AODA and the Integrated Accessibility Standards
- New Accessibility Standards Affecting Employment Now In Force
- For an Independent Review of Ontario’s Human Rights Enforcement Ssystem, the McGuinty Government Appoints a Bill 107 Supporter, Who Publicly Opposed the AODA Alliance’s Position on Human Rights Enforcement
- Festival Leads Way With Accessibility for Patrons
- Disability Coalition Unveils Major Political Parties’ Election Pledges to over 1.5 Million Ontarians with Disabilities, at Queen’s Park News Conference
- AODA Alliance Holds Queen’s Park News Conference on Eeve of Election Campaign to Unveil the Political Parties’ Platforms on Disability Accessibility
- Law Commission of Ontario Releases Consultation Paper on the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- ‘Accordion’ Buses Hit the Road
- Enabling Behaviour
- AODA Alliance Urges PC Leader Tim Hudak to Commit to Strengthen, and Not Weaken Efforts to Make Ontario Fully Accessible to Over 1.5 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Esso Worker Bars Blind Athlete; Medal-Winning Rower Ordered from Gas Bar Because of Her Dog
- Physically Disabled Residents Ask City and Businesses to Consider Mobility Needs
- Blind Woman Can’t Hitch a Ride with DARTS, Can’t Get to Work
- Just a Little of Your Time Helps Our Non-Partisan Election Campaign for a Fully Accessible Ontario for Ontarians with Disabilities
- City of Kawartha Lakes Uses AODA as Defense Against Disabled
- Use Options for Accessible Voting for Voters With Disabilities in This Ontario Election
- Toronto Star Reports That Conservatives Promise to Cut at Least 30% of Ontario Regulations – Are New Accessibility Regulations on That Large Chopping Block?
- PC Candidate Agrees to Urge Tim Hudak to Make Accessibility Commitments – And Other Media Election Coverage of Disability Accessibility Issues
- Tories Silent on Accessibility Improvements for Disabled
- Local School Doesn’t Meet Accessibility Requirements for Election
- Disturbing Silence From Hudak on Accessibility
- AODA: Who Let the Dogs Out? Saying ‘Yes’ to All Service Animals
- Human Rights Cases Settled as Transit Providers Offer More Accessible Services
- 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
- On Live TV, AODA Alliance Chair Asks PC Leader Tim Hudak for Disability Accessibility Election Commitment
- 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
- aUntargeted and Untapped, are the Disabled a Winning Labour Source for the Supply Chain Sector?
- Internet Voting in Advance Polls a Great Success in Markham, Report Finds
- Put the AODA Customer Service Feedback Process to Work!
- AODA Alliance: What We Accomplished in Our Successful 2011 Election Campaign for Accessibility
- Another Fiasco at the Voting Polls
- Disability Awareness Consultants
- Order hear: Culver’s Adds More Accessible Restaurant Drive-Thrus
- A Wait on Wait Times
- New Disability Regulations Ill-Considered
- Volunteer Can’t Access Campus Building
- Technology Helps Hearing Impaired Stay in ‘Loop’
- AODA Alliance Asks Chief Electoral Officer for Press Report on Internet and Telephone Voting
- Taco Bell Awaits Sanctions in Accessibility Suit
- Law Grad’s Discrimination Claim Denied Once Again
- AODA Alliance Writes New Minister Responsible for the AODA to List Key Accessibility Priorities
- AODA Alliance: 10 Year Anniversary of Another Important Date in Our 17-Year-Long Campaign for a Barrier-Free Ontario
- Macy’s Diner Leads the Way in Restaurant Menu Accessibility
- City Fails Human Rights Test
- Sarnia Improving Accessibility
- Equal Education Needed for Deaf
- 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
- Accessibility is a Global Mandate
- NonProfits and The Act
- Everyone Has a Role to Play
- McGuinty Government Ducks Complaint About Its Contraversial Choice of Whom to Conduct Independent Review of Bill 107
- Three Developments in Our Quest for Internet and Telephone Voting to Promote Accessibility for Voters With Disabilities
- 17 Years Ago Today Ontario’s Non-Partisan Disabilities Act Movement Was Born!
- Emergency Preparedness: New AODA Rules for Persons With Disabilities
- Accessibility Law Says Taxis Can’t Overcharge Disabled Passengers
- ‘Church is for Everybody’
- New Policy Sends Landlords Back to School
- Persons With Disabilities Are Still Waiting for Action: OFL Statement for International Day of Persons With Disabilities, 2011
- Breaking Down Barriers With the Right Attitude
- Disabled community left in the cold
- Better Service for Disabled Key Goal of New Policy
- 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
- Business Accessibility Needs Common Sense Approach
- Meeting the Customer Service Standard (CSS): Restaurant Menus
- How Easy is it for You to Shop?
- Attention AODA Organizations: Actions to Complete by January 1, 2012
- Tip Sheet: Helping Employees With Disabilities Stay Safe
- Helping Businesses Become More Accessible
- Visual Fire Alarms Needed
- AODA Alliance’s 2011 Year-End Report – Where We’ve Been and Where We’re Headed
- Ontario disabilities act creates compliance confusion
- Ontario Businesses Must Now Comply With Ontario’s Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Sign Up – to Tell the Pinto Human Rights Code Review What You Think of the McGuinty Government’s Privatizing Human Rights Enforcement
- Government of Canada Supports Accessibility for Canadians with Disabilities in Ontario
- AODA: Accessible Transportation Compliance Schedule
- Redbox Discriminates Against the Blind By Failing to Provide Accessible Self-Service Kiosks
- Providing Emergency and Public Safety Information for People With Disabilities Guide
- AODA Alliance Urges Pinto Human Rights Review to Give the Public More Time to Give Input Into Ontario’s Human Rights System
- LOCATION OF JANUARY 27, 2012 TORONTO PUBLIC FORUM ON WORLD REPORT ON DISABILITIES IS MOVED TO LET MORE ATTEND THANKS TO LARGE DEMAND
- Just-Released Human Rights Legal Support Centre 2009-2010 Annual Report Documents That the Centre Warned McGuinty Government it Couldn’t Provide Appropriate Level of Service From 2008-2010
- Accommodating Bipolar Disorder in the Workplace, Part I: Disclosure and Stigma
- Editorial: Shocking Discrimination Case Needs Sorting Out”
- More Problems With Pinto Human Rights Review
- EnAbling Change Program
- Use These Helpful Tips for Making a Presentation to the Pinto Human Rights Code’s Public Hearings or Sending in Written Submissions
- Human Rights Review Bypasses Thunder Bay
- City not compliant on transit access
- Cut Frustrate Disabled
- Alliance for Equality of Blind Canadians (AEBC) Restaurant Survey
- Please Tell the Pinto Human Rights Review if You Endorse the AODA Alliance’s Final March 1, 2012 Brief on the Enforcement of Human Rights in Ontario
- Queen’s Park Accused of Complicating Human Rights Complaints
- Students are Challenged to Make Ontario More Accessible for the Disabled
- 2012 Customer Service Accessibility Report – Questions
- AODA Alliance: Two quick ways you can help our accessibility campaign
- Pinto Human Rights Code Review Restores Cancelled Thunder Bay Public Hearings After AODA Alliance Gets CBC to Cover its Earlier Cancellation
- “Nice City to Visit…Just Don’t Expect to Take a Shower!” – PUSH Northwest
- LCO Releases Draft Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- Bits and Pieces of Important News on the Campaign for a Fully-Accessible Ontario
- The Fast Food Menu And A Restaurant’s Duty To A Legally Blind Patron Under The ADA
- How is Our Campaign for a Fully Accessible Ontario Going?
- Making Businesses Accessible to All has its Obstacles
- City Transit Expected to be Totally Accessible by Year-End
- Taxi of Tomorrow Faces Lawsuits of the Day After
- AODA Alliance Submits a Supplemental Brief to the Pinto Human Rights Code Review
- Legacy of Local Musician Jeff Healey to Play On in Accessible Park
- 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS COMPLETE WITH A GUARANTEE OF EQUALITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
- Andrew Pinto Refuses to Read the AODA Alliance’s Supplemental Brief to the Pinto Human Rights Code Review
- What Plans Does THE McGuinty GOVERNMENT Have for Keeping Its 2011 Election ACCESSIBILITY Promises?
- The Catch-22 of Group ome Bylaws
- New Toronto Star On-line Guest Column Co-Written by AODA Alliance Chair Identifies Barriers to Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario
- AODA Alliance Calls on Elections Ontario to Provide Telephone and Internet Voting in Upcoming Kitchener-Waterloo By-Election
- Woman Says She Was Humiliated at Centre in the Square
- Elections Ontario Categorically Refuses to Deploy Telephone and Internet Voting in Any By-election IN 2012
- Website Audits: Is the CNIB Robbing You Blind?
- MobilityPLUS Users to Get More Vans, Fare Choices
- County of Brant Discriminates Against People with Disabilities
- Will Manitoba Pass Disability Accessibility Legislation That is Strong and Effective?
- Federal Court of Appeal Reaffirms That Inaccessible Federal Government Websites Violate the Constitutional Rights of Blind Canadians
- AODA Alliance Presses Two Cabinet Ministers on Plans to Finalize the Overdue Built Environment Accessibility Standard That the McGuinty Government Last August Promised to Enact “Promptly”
- Take Part in an Ontario Government Survey of Impact of Accessibility Standards Enacted Under the Accessibility for Ontarians With Disabilities Act
- Accessibility Kawartha Lakes Hosts Inaccessible Luncheon!
- County of Brant Reverses Decision to Discriminate Against People with Disabilities
- Muskoka Looking to Brand Itself as an Accessible Tourist Destination
- Six Reasons Why Hiring Disabled Good for Business
- Restaurant Owners: Get Listed on Google’s First Page with an Accessible Menu
- Specialized Transportation Service and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Why Website Accessibility Matters
- County Continues to Upgrade its Facilities
- Wheelchair Passenger Safety on Buses
- 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?
- 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
- Pretty Hazards: the Accessible Built Environment
- Barriers to Equality Persist in Ontario
- Wheelchair Users Pay More for Taxis
- How Effective is the Integrated Accessibility Standard, Part IV – Transportation? Not so Much!
- 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!
- County of Brant Fails Budget 101: Accessible Non-Affordable Transportation for People with Disabilities
- Design of Public Spaces in the Built Environment Draft Standards
- McGuinty Government Posts a Draft Partial Built Environment Accessibility Standard to Address Barriers in Public Spaces, Not Inside Buildings
- County of Brant: Integrated Accessibility Standards for Transportation or “Who’s on First?”
- Please Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in Two September 6, 2012 Ontario By-Elections
- The McGuinty Watch: Make Sure McGuinty Doesn’t Get a Majority
- Will Ontario’s Two September 6 2012 By-Elections Be Fully Accessible to All Voters With Disabilities?
- McGuinty Government Proposes to Amend its 2011 Integrated Accessibility Regulation Without Following Important AODA Requirements for Amending Accessibility Standards
- Public Meeting on Metrolinx’s Accessibility Initiatives
- AODA Alliance Releases a Report Card on the McGuinty Government Record at Keeping Its Twelve 2011 Election Promises on Disability Accessibility
- Petition to Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- Accommodations a Priority During Frosh Week
- 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
- Call For Proposals For Enabling Accessibility Fund
- New Integrated Accessibility Standard Regulation(IASR) Guide
- Elections Ontario Declines Our Proposals to MAKE Ontario’s Two September 6, 2012 By-Elections Fully Accessible to Voters With Disabilities
- Group Home Location Bylaws Pit Ontario Cities Against Human Rights Watchdog
- OHRC Releases Consultation Report on Human Rights, Mental Health and Addictions
- 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
- Health-Care Providers Openly Discriminate Against the Mentally Ill
- An Education Campaign About Courtesy/Priority Seating Signs on Transportation Vehicles
- Let the McGuinty Government Know if You Support the AODA Alliance’s October 4 2012 Final BRIEF on ITS Draft Public SPACES Accessibility Regulation
- Accessibility After The Cart
- Human Rights Chief Will Fight Hamilton at the OMB
- Accessibility Remains An Issue
- Toronto Wheelchair Users Can’t Count on City’s Cabs
- Municipalities Urged to Eliminate Barriers to Housing Services
- City hall accessibility problems
- New Campaign to Get McGuinty Government to Strengthen Enforcement of the AODA
- New Priority and Courtesy Seating on Milton Transit
- Human Rights Victory for St. Catharines Worker
- Standing up for the silent
- AODA Enforcement: Where is it?
- Customer Service Standards Compliance Report Due by December 31, 2012
- Welcome to the AO Do Da Do Da Day
- 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
- Recruitment Begins for Committee to Review the Customer Service Standard
- Community Event Accessibility Questioned
- McGuinty Government Takes Steps to Streamline Process for Developing New Accessibility Standards Under the AODA
- UPDATED: Handi-Van Fares Going Down
- Site Check: New Durham Region Transit Website Not Accessible Despite Claims
- Read AODA ALLIANCE’S Analysis of the November 2012 Final Report of the Andrew Pinto Human Rights Code Review
- AODA: 2013 Compliance, Happy New Year!
- Restaurant Riles Stouffville Couple Denied Entry
- Sandra Pupatello is First Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Make Commitments on Making Ontario Fully Accessible to Over 1.7 Million Ontarians With Disabilities
- Kathleen Wynne is Second Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidate to Make Disability Accessibility Commitments
- Ontarians With Disabilities Hit the Hardest by Government Cuts: OFL Statement for International Day of Persons with Disabilities, 2012
- “If an Ontario Human Rights Complaint is filed, we will stop providing Para transit” County of Brant
- City Says No More Free Transit for Blind, Disabled
- Elections Ontario’s Progress Towards Deploying Telephone and Internet Voting is Still Slow
- Law Commission of Ontario Releases Final Report and Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities
- Blind Hamiltonians Fight for the Right to Keep Their Bus Passes
- Hamilton Turns an “Oops” into a HUGE Mess!
- Ontario Accessibility Standards: What Comes After the December 31, 2012 Reporting Deadline?
- New AODA Accessibility Standards – Design of Public Spaces in the Built Environment
- Taking Proactive Steps to Comply With the AODA is a Smart Business Move
- City to Kick Off Five-Year Accessibility Plan
- As More Disabled Sue and Protest, Politicians Draw Line on Accessibility
- Public Consultation on Building Code Accessibility Requirements
- Eric Hoskins and Gerrard Kennedy are the Third and Fourth Liberal Party Leadership Candidates to Make Disability Accessibility Pledges
- Goar: Ontarians With Mental Disabilities Lost in Legal System
- County of Brant Setting Legal Precedence by Continuing to Defy Integrated Accessibility Standards
- Working Groups Address Accessibility Issues
- Charles Sousa is Fifth Ontario Liberal Party Leadership Candidate to Make Disability Accessibility Commitments
- All Ontario Liberal Leadership Candidates Have Now Made Disability Accessibility Pledges
- New Accessibility Standards in Effect
- Government Response to Recommendations of the Accessibility Advisory Council for a Made-in-Manitoba Accessibility Act
- McGuinty Government Commits That Revamped Accessibility Council Will Develop New Accessibility Standards Under the Disabilities Act- but No Commitments on Which New Standards or by When
- Ontario Employers Have a New Tool to Improve Accessibility for People With Disabilities
- Ontario Finance Minister Dwight Duncan Makes Landmark Public Declaration That Public Money Should Never Be Used to Create or Perpetuate Barriers Against People With Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Issues News Release on Ontario Premier-Designate Kathleen Wynne’s Important Commitments to Ontarians With Disabilities
- Blind Pedestrians Hail ‘Good First Step’ on Traffic
- Yoda on AODA: “Hmmm. The more AODA faith have you greater the disappointment shall you see”
- Employment Equity Laws Ensure Workplace Fairness
- Deadline to Prepare Accessibility Policies Approaching
- Ontario Government Enacts New Accessibility Regulations Setting Standards for Accessibility of Public Spaces
- Wynne Government’s First Throne Speech Signals Potential Revitalized Approach to Accessibility for People With Disabilities
- Design of Public Spaces Standards (Accessibility Standards for the Built Environment) Now on AODA.ca
- AODA Alliance Writes Dr. Eric Hoskins, Ontario’s New Minister Responsible for Implementing and Enforcing the Disabilities Act, to Urge Prompt and Decisive Action
- Is the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) Discriminating Against the Disabled?
- Regrets, I’ve Received a Few
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Kathleen Wynne to Propose 9 Priority Actions to Help Get Ontario Back on Schedule for Becoming Fully Accessible to People With Disabilities on or Before 2025
- Premier Wynne Makes Unexpected Phone Call to AODA Alliance Chair; and – Canada’s Parliament Invites AODA Alliance to Present to March 7, 2013 Federal Standing Committee Hearings on Employment for Canadians with Disabilities
- OHRC Submission to the MMAH on Proposed Changes to the Ontario Building Code
- Hamilton City Council Discusses Fare Parity for People With Disabilities
- Building Capacity the Wrong Way
- Fast Food Fury: Hearing Loss & the Drive-Thru
- What Demographic Will Make the Biggest Change in Accessibility and Disability Employment
- Transit for Disabled Riders Could Cost Millions
- Remembering Former Ontario Labour Minister Dr. Robert Elgie, a Hero to Ontarians With Disabilities Who Spearheaded Amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code to Make it ILLEGAL TO Discriminate Based on a Person’s Disability
- Please Tell the Wynne Government if You Support Our New Brief on Proposed Accessibility Reforms to the Ontario Building Code
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commissions May 9 2013 Accessible Transit Public Forum to Let TTC Know About Ongoing Public Transit Barriers
- Toronto Cab Companies Agree to Stop Illegal Extra Charges for Wheelchair Passengers
- Spring Rolls Apologizes for Treatment of Hearing-Impaired Man with Service Dog
- Canada: AODA’s Workplace Emergency Response Information Requirements Already In Force: Are You In Compliance?
- Toronto Restaurant Incident with Hearing Ear Dog Shows Need for the Ontario Government to Keep Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Removing Barriers Goal of New Legislation
- How Does The May 2 2013 Ontario Budget Look When Viewed Through A Disability Accessibility Lens?
- Government Not Enforcing Disabilities Act, Says Advocate
- AODA Alliance Update: Windsor Star Reports Raise More Concerns about the Need for Effective Enforcement of Accessible Customer Service for Ontarians with Disabilities
- True Accessibility is All About Attitude
- City Seeks Increased Accessibility
- More Media Coverage Of Barriers To Accessible Customer Service For People With Disabilities Around Ontario — It’s Time for Effective Action by the Ontario Government
- Ontario Government Responds to AODA Criticism!
- AODA and Small Business: Severe Penalties for Lack of Accessibility for the Disabled
- Ontario Government Announces Bold New Move Towards AODA Transparency!
- Preparing for “Round 2 ” of the AODA: The Integrated Accessibility Standards
- Waterloo Pulls Six Years of Public Documents From Website
- Wynne Government is Required to Appoint an Independent Review of the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Within the Next Seven Days
- Ontario Government: AODA Implementation Delayed Due To Sexism
- Minister Hoskins’ First Major Speech on Disability Accessibility in the Ontario Legislature and Responses in Question Period – Some News is Encouraging and Some is Not
- AODA Compliance Update: January 1, 2014 Requirements
- WYNNE GOVERNMENT HONOURS NATIONAL ACCESS AWARENESS WEEK BY BREACHING THE ACCESSIBILITY FOR ONTARIANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
- Ontario Government Denies AODA Consultation Process Was A Con
- Hiring a Worker With a Disability
- Audible signals about human rights: lawyer
- Elections Ontario Belatedly Replies to our December 7, 2012 Letter but Again Leaves Key Questions about Accessible Telephone and Internet Voting Unanswered
- Ontario Government Floats AODA Trial Dirigible
- AODA Alliance Calls on Elections Ontario to Offer Telephone and Internet Voting in Upcoming as-Yet Unscheduled By-elections – And Seeks More Information about Elections Ontario’s Plans Regarding These Accessible Voting Technologies
- Is The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) Meeting the Needs of People with Disabilities?
- Media Release: AODA Failure Due To Government’s Disability
- STW Wants Disabled In House
- Accessible Housing Offers Freedom for Disabled
- Ontario Government Breaks Silence on AODA
- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Elections Ontario Report on Telephone and Internet Voting is A Slap in the Face to Voters with Disabilities
- Ontario Government Finally Appoints All Members to the Accessibility Standards Advisory Council – But Still Hasn’t Said What New Accessibility Standards It Will Develop
- Ontario: AODA Activists Are Anti-Environment
- Ontario’s Accessibility Standards Advisory Council/Standards Development Committee
- AODA Forms Are Government Collectables
- Taxi Accessibility Rule is the Right Tradeoff: James
- Action Kit On How to Raise Disability Accessibility Issues in Five August 1, 2013 Ontario By-Elections
- Government: Cocky and Getting Hard on AODA
- McMaster University Faces Discrimination Claim From PhD Student
- Our Campaign for An Education Accessibility Standard Gets another Important boost
- Here’s Some Crumbs and a Pat on the Head Now be Thankful You Disabled and Go Away!
- Lieutenant Governor General Tosses Government On AODA!
- Deadlines Loom for Canada’s Web Accessibility Laws
- Toronto Star Column Argues in Support of On-Line Voting in Upcoming Ontario By-elections- We Agree!
- Minister Hoskins: “AODA Delayed Because We Have No Balls”
- Game Changer in Ontario’s By-elections
- AODA Alliance Makes Public the Disability Accessibility Commitments of Ontario By-election Candidates: NDP Makes All Commitments We Seek – Liberals Make None of them – Conservatives Don’t Answer
- Why AODA Was Created: The Truth!!
- Woman Refuses to Leave Train Over Accessibility Issues
- AODA Alliance Asks for a Meeting with the Accessibility Standards Advisory Council
- Watch A 30 Minute TV Interview on Progress under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act on Cable TV August 11 2013 and Re-Run Several Times over the Next Weeks
- “Nostradamus Predicted AODA Delay”
- AODA Alliance Chair Resorts to Freedom of Information Application to Get Access to Ontario Government’s Plans for Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Top Ten List Why AODA Has Not Been Implemented
- Top Ten Reasons Why AODA Will NEVER Be Implemented
- Pan/Parapan Am Games Sends Blind Lawyer Inaccessible Invitation
- Pan/Parapan American Games Sends AODA Alliance Chair an Inaccessible Invitation to Kickoff for Countdown to Toronto 2015 Games – What Example for Digital Accessibility is Ontario Showcasing for the World?
- Where is Disability Accessibility in the Ontario Government’s Planned Legacy for the Expensive 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games?
- An Open Letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne from Huronia Regional Centre Survivors
- Why The Media Silence On AODA?
- Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation Endorses Our Call for the Ontario Government to Develop an Education Accessibility Standard
- Scientists Discover Disabling Gene That Only Affects Politicians and Government Burocrats, Name it ScrewU-itis
- Top Ten Occurrences BEFORE AODA Is Fully Implemented
- After Violating Ontario’s Disabilities Act for 102 Days, the Ontario Government Appoints Dean Mayo Moran of the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law to Conduct Independent Review of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Legislation
- New Map Makes Hamilton CBD More Accessible
- Workplace Accommodations: Low Cost, High Impact
- Dean Moran: Be Aware Of AODA Apocalypses
- New Voting System Gives Blind and Low Vision Voters More Choice
- AODA Implementation Techniques Can Help You Avoid Work
- Landmark Settlement Addresses Needs of Inmates With Mental Health Issues in Ontario Prisons
- The Latest in Our Campaign to Get the Wynne Government to at Last Keep Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Paranoia About Politicians: Is There A Down Side?
- Because the Ontario Government Announced No Plans for a Disability Accessibility Legacy for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ ParaPan American Games, the AODA Alliance Urges the Government to Adopt Our Proposal for the Games’ Accessibility Legacy
- Wynne Government Proposes to Charge AODA Alliance Chair $2,325 to Answer His Freedom of Information Request on Government Plans for Keeping Its Promise to Effectively Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Trent Becomes First University in Canada to Introduce MV-1 Accessibility Vehicle
- Top Ten Community Consultation Pitfalls
- Read A Compelling Excerpt on Fighting for Accessibility in Barb Turnbull’s New Memoir – and Other Important News in Our Accessibility Campaign
- McWynnety Government Update: Month 10: Where’s the Enforcement?
- Holiday Special! Top Ten Things About AODA To Be Thankful For After Thanksgiving
- Ontario Universities Uniting to Help Faculty Identify and Help Students Struggling with Mental Health Issues, Improve Accessibility for All
- Top Ten Halloween AODA/Ontario Disability Trick And Treats Played On People With Disabilities!
- The Ontario Government Commits to More Open Government, but Keeps Dragging Its Feet on Answering the AODA Alliance Chair’s Freedom of Information Application, Submitted to Unearth the Government’s Plans for Effectively Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- AODA Alliance Starts Kickstarter Campaign
- On the 15th Anniversary of the Ontario Legislature’s 1998 Pivotal Disabilities Act Resolution, Our Accessibility Campaign Has News in Three Provinces
- On the 15th Anniversary of the Landmark Ontario Legislature’s Disabilities Act Resolution, the Wynne Government Refused to Directly Answer an Opposition Question on Why the Government is Charging the AODA Alliance Chair $2,325 to Answer His Freedom of Information Application, for the Government’s Plans for Enforcing the Disabilities Act
- Advocates for blind cheer ruling on voter rights
- I, The AODA Jury
- New Toronto Star Editorial Backs Our Call for the Ontario Government to Reveal Its Plans for Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Read the AODA Alliance’s Oral Presentation to the Manitoba Legislature’s Standing Committee on Social and Economic Development on Bill 26- the Proposed Accessibility for Manitobans Act – And Other News
- Kiss The Law Deadly: Top Ten Survival Guide For Zombie Laws
- Ontario Government Information Fee Discounts
- Ontario Government Knows Staggering 70% of Ontario Private Sector Organizations with 20 or More Employees Violating Disabilities Act’s Reporting Requirement
- A Win for Human Rights, Accessibility
- Ontario Must Enforce Equality Rules for Disabled: Editorial
- New Toronto Star Editorial Slams Ontario Government for Not Enforcing Disabilities Act When it Knew Thousands of Private Sector Organizations are Violating It, and When Allocated Funds are Available for Enforcement
- Restaurant Owners, Serve Up Your Menu to a Hungry Mobile Audience!
- The Ballad of AODA
- AODA—Preparing Your Business For Upcoming Compliance
- Letter to the Editor: Thank You to Via Rail
- Ontario Government Sued For Causing Disabilities In Advocates
- TO MARK DECEMBER 3, THE INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, THE AODA ALLIANCE ASKS ONTARIO’S POLITICAL PARTIES TO ENDORSE NINE IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES FOR ACTION TOWARD MAKING ONTARIO FULLY ACCESSIBLE TO PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES BY 2025
- OFL Statement: Make Ontario a Fully Accessible Province by 2025!
- The AODA and the Lack of Enforcement
- CN Tower Goes Mobile!
- Rules Only Work if Enforced
- AODA Alliance: Final 2013 News Roundup from Our Accessibility Campaign
- Everyday Barriers remain for disabled
- Ontario Honours International Day For People With Disabilities
- New Accessibility Regulations About to Be Implemented
- 2013 AODA Summary: The Year of Doing Nothing, And Writing About It
- Workplace Study Exposes Difficulties Faced by Disabled Workers
- Why Rudolph Pooped On Premier Wynne’s Roof
- Accessibility Not A Priority
- 2014: Our Top Ten Resolutions
- New Accessibility Amendments to Ontario’s Building Code – Overview of Updated Requirements
- AODA Deadline Passes: Is your Restaurant Menu Accessible?
- BRITISH COLUMBIA ACCESS UPDATE
- Online Accessibility for Disabled Becomes a Must
- AODA 2014: Nostradamus Stunning Predictions
- P.J. O?Brien Irish Pub and Restaurant Goes Accessible
- Action Kit for Raising Disability Accessibility Issues in Two February 13, 2014 Ontario By-Elections
- Ontario Gripped by Access Vortex
- Ontario’s English Catholic Teachers Union Presses the Ontario Government to Enact an Education Accessibility Standard under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Residents Struggle With Accessibility Issues
- Appalling Toronto Star Report of Disability Accessibility Barriers on Greyhound Bus Ride from Toronto to Kitchener Reveals that the Ontario Government Doesn’t Understand or Recall Why It Passed the AODA
- Parents of Kids With Autism Fight to Get Service Dogs in Schools
- B.C. Budd’s Moving Experience!
- WordPress for Badeyes: A Beginners Guide
- Greyhound Steps Up Accessibility Training for Bus Drivers
- Ontario Government’s Promised Plan to Increase Private Sector Employment for Ontarians with Disabilities Turns Out To Be More Delay, Re-Inventing the Wheel, No Teeth and No Imminent Practical Improvements
- Valentine’s Day 2014: An AODA Ode
- Ontario’s Three Major Parties answer the AODA Alliance’s Survey Seeking Disability Accessibility Commitments in the Two February 13, 2014 By-Elections – Only the NDP Made All Accessibility Commitments We Seek
- Badeyes Offers Beginners Guide for WordPress First Timers
- Students Highlight Simple Steps to Accessibility
- Vote Now To Ostracize Ontario Government Politicians
- Upcoming Priorities for Community Action on Disability Accessibility – and – Blizzard of Great Recent Media Coverage
- Ontario Vows to Enforce Accessibility Law
- AODA Legislative Review Now Scheduling Presentations
- Ontario Government Sat on A Detailed Plan for Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act since at Least May 2012, According to a Front Page Story in the Toronto Star that Quotes the AODA Alliance
- Tim Hortons Menu Goes Accessible!
- Franz Kafka Explains AODA Compliance Plan Failure
- The Eaton Chelsea Hotel Jumps on the Accessible Restaurant Menu Bandwagon!
- Commentary: Accessibility One Door At A Time
- Sign Up for Public Hearings for Dean Mayo Moran’s Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Enforcement in Ottawa, Toronto, London, Thunder Bay and On-Line
- With a Possible Spring Election Looming, AODA Alliance Writes Ontario Party Leaders to Request Election Commitments on Disability Accessibility
- Public Comment on Proposed Changes to the Customer Service Standard
- Disabled Woman Wins Discriminatory Pay Case at Ontario Human Rights Tribunal
- AODA: A Moving Experience
- With a Possible Spring Election Looming, AODA Alliance Writes Ontario Party Leaders to Request Election Commitments on Disability Accessibility
- The AODA Howl
- Ontario Government ramps up enforcement of AODA
- Ontario’s Accessibility Standards Advisory Council Announces Public Consultations on Its Initial Proposal for Revisions to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard – But Refuses Our Requests to Make This Consultation More Open, Inclusive and Effective
- Not Compliant With AODA? Ignore Compliance Audit Notice at Your Peril
- Please Give Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief on Proposed Revisions to the 2007 customer Service Accessibility Standard Enacted under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- The AODA Raven
- GO Rider Files Human Rights Complaint After Other Drivers Block Disabled Parking
- Learn All About the History, Strategies, Goals and Gains of Ontario’s Disability Accessibility Movement from the Late 1970s to Early 2014
- AODA Enforcement Inspired By Game Of Thrones
- Three Simple Ways to Make Your Hiring Accessible to Persons with Disabilities
- As the Ontario Government Continues to Break its Promise to Effectively Enforce Its Disability Accessibility Law, its Minister Responsible for its Enforcement Introduces New Bill into the Legislature to Cut Regulations on Business – Will Accessibility Safeguards Be Kept off the Chopping Block?
- Ontario Government Cancels AODA In Ridings Where It Isnt A Gas
- Will we Finally get Reform of Disability Services at Toronto Pearson International Airport?
- Please Email the Ontario Government to Say If You Endorse Our Final Brief on the Initial Proposed Revisions to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Ontario Proposes Business Climate Act, Will Sue God If It Does Not Work
- A Weighty Issue: Power Wheelchairs vs Ramp and Lift Restrictions
- City of Toronto Offers Voters with Disabilities Scytls Solutions for Internet and Telephone Voting
- AccessiGate: Canadian Banks Clarify Why Sites Not Accessible
- Does Your Website Have to Comply With AODA? The Answer is: Probably
- TTC Enhancing Accessibility With Blue Priority Seating
- Revel Systems Launches New iPad POS Accessibility Bundle for the Visually Impaired
- Class Action Suit Claims Apple Store POS System Discriminates Against Visually Impaired
- AODA Alliance Writes Economic Development, Trade and Employment Minister to Request Specific Details on Government Action to Implement and Enforce the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Viewing the May 1, 2014 Ontario Budget Through A Disability Accessibility Lens – Chock-Full of Missed Opportunities to Ensure Ontario Becomes Fully Accessible to People with Disabilities by 2025
- Please Raise Disability Accessibility Issues with Voters and Candidates Across Ontario! — AODA Alliance Writes Party Leaders to Ask for their Disability Accessibility Platforms in the June 12, 2014 Election, by May 9, 2014
- Compare the Major Ontario Parties’ Records On Disability Accessibility
- Lest You Forgot: The Wynne/McGuinty Legacy
- What New Efforts will Elections Ontario Make to Remove Barriers Impeding Voters with Disabilities During the June 12, 2014 Ontario Election?
- Accessibility Improvements Continue in Oshawa
- Portable Toilet That Expands for People in Wheelchairs Wins COU’s annual IDeA Student Contest to Improve Accessibility
- AODA Alliance Holds Novel On-Line “Virtual News Conference” to Unveil the Ontario Parties’ 2014 Disability Accessibility Election Pledges – Urge Your Local Media to Cover the Election’s Disability Accessibility Issues!
- Disability Advocates Call on Party Leaders to Ensure Barrier-Free Ontario
- AODA Alliance: 2014 Ontario Election Action Kit
- Elections Ontario Writes AODA Alliance to Say What It Is Doing to Remove Voting Barriers that Impede Voters with Disabilities – And Other Ontario 2014 Election News on the Accessibility Front
- May 27 2014 All Candidates Debate in Hotly-Contested Toronto Riding Planned for Evidently-Inaccessible Location
- Ontario Betting Pools Damaged by Election News
- Our Victory for Accessibility! Come to May 27, 2014 Parkdale-High Park All Candidates’ Debate
- Inaccessible All Candidates Debate Held in Cambridge Ontario – Media Reports Disability Advocates Can’t Question Cambridge Candidates About Disability Accessibility Pledges, Because They Cannot Get Into the Event
- Ajax to Use Internet Voting in Municipal Election
- Nostradamus Predicts Ontario Election Results
- Chief Electoral Officer Greg Essensa is a Barrier to Voters With Disabilities!
- Voter in Wheelchair Slams Poorly Equipped Ontario Polling Station
- Elections Ontario is Caught Out Using a Toronto Polling Station Location that Lacks Proper Accessibility, After Having Been Warned In Advance
- Press Release: Inaccessible, Dangerous and Deadly
- Watch AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky as He Appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin to Discuss Election Accessibility Issues — And — Still More Disability Barriers in this Election
- Media Reports that Conservative Leader Tim Hudak Promises More Jobs for People with Disabilities — But Won’t Promise that He Won’t Cut Accessibility Regulations, Including Standards Aiming at Workplace Accessibility — and — More Disability Barriers to Voting
- Hudak Vows to Help Disabled Find Work
- Blind Man Frustrated by Voting Experience
- Can Ontario Really Become Barrier-Free By 2025?
- Kicking Off the Next Phase in Our Accessibility Advocacy Efforts — What Premier Wynne Promised — What Opportunities Await us — What We Achieved in the 2014 Election Campaign — and — What’s Next!
- Pollyanna’s Ontario Election Wrap-up
- Ontario Issues Human Rights Policy for the Mentally Ill
- Send Us Feedback on Our Draft Brief to the Mayo Moran Independent Review of the AODA’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act’s Implementation and Enforcement
- Farmed Salmon Conversion Success Required Before B.C. Disability Pensions Increase
- Panel Will Help Make Province More Accessible, Inclusive
- Let the Mayo Moran AODA Independent Review Know if You Endorse the AODA Alliance’s June 30, 2014 Final Brief on the AODA’s Implementation and Enforcement
- Concerned About Councillor’s Response to Accessibility Issues
- Accessibility Regulations Prompt Comments From County
- New Wynne Government Starts Off Positively!
- Ontario Human Rights Commission Submission Regarding Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) 2013-14 Legislative Review
- Blind Man Wins Human Rights Case After Restaurant Bars Guide Dog
- Lack of Accessible Tourism Costing EU Economy Billions in Lost Potential Revenue
- Chicago RTA Highlights Accessibility of Region’s Transit Systems
- Access Health Clock Announced
- Toronto Cancels Plan to Allow Online, Phone Voting for Disabled Citizens in 2014
- No Rest for the Weary: More AODA Compliance Required in January 2015
- Ontario Should Consult People With Disabilities Before Making Laws to Protect Them
- Governor Cuomo Signs Legislation Updating New York’s Accessibility Signage and Logos
- Employers Weary From Avoiding AODA To Get Free Energy Bars
- Not Yet Disability Clock Is Ticking!
- National Federation of the Blind Endorses Online Ballot Marking
- Pollyanna and Kafka Debate The B.C. Accessibility Summit
- Doing Business in Ontario: New Employment Laws Are Overwhelming Small Businesses
- AODA Alliance Writes New Minister Responsible for Implementing and Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act to Urge Priorities for Prompt Action
- Minister Duguid Forces Pollyanna To Kafka
- Toronto Star Reports that Metrolinx Designed Underground Eglinton LRT Stations with Troubling and Preventable Barriers to Disability Accessibility and Safety
- UK CAA Tighten Information Rules For Disabled Passengers
- AODA Alliance Chair Resorts to Freedom of Information Application to Unearth the Story on How and Why Metrolinx Designed the New Eglinton Subway with Barriers to Disability Accessibility and Safety
- One Full Year to the Day After the Wynne Government Unveiled Its Planned Legacy for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games, Where is the Comprehensive Plan for a Strong and Lasting Legacy of Improved Disability Accessibility?
- Ontario Deaf Students Fighting for Better Education
- Toronto Star Reports on Wynne Government’s Failure to Ensure an Effective Disability Accessibility Legacy for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Accessibility Is On the Menu
- On the 20th Anniversary of the Launch of the Public Battle to Get TTC to Announce all Subway Stops, the AODA Alliance Calls on Voters with Disabilities Across Ontario to Seek Strong Accessibility Commitments from Candidates for Mayor, City Council and School Board, in the Lead-Up to the October 27, 2014 Ontario Municipal Elections
- Campaign on TTC Accessibility
- Where Do Mayoral Candidates Stand on Accessible Transit?
- The World Of Duguidcraft: A Brief Walkthrough
- AODA Alliance Writes New Ontario Government Services Minister to Urge Action to Make the Ontario Public Service a Fully Accessible Workplace and Provider of Public Services
- Open Letter to Premier Kathleen Wynne
- New Award Honours Leaders in Accessibility
- Onley Champions Accessibility as Term Ends
- Minister Duguid Communications Strategy Revealed
- AODA Alliance Writes the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing to Identify Key Accessibility Priorities for that Ministry
- AODA Alliance Writes the Ontario Treasury Board, the International Trade Minister and the Attorney General to Identify Key Disability Accessibility Priorities for Their Ministries
- New Smartphone App Gives Sight to People With Vision Disabilities
- AODA Alliance Writes the Ontario Minister of Education, the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities (who is also the Minister of Research and Innovation) and the Minister of Health to Identify Key Disability Accessibility Priorities for Their Ministries
- Angry Judge Demands Interpreter for Deaf Man
- AODA Alliance Writes Premier Kathleen Wynne to Highlight Major Disability Accessibility Priorities
- Aeroplan Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to Offer App for People with Disabilities
- Top Ten Reasons Minister Duguid Is AODA Silent
- Merck Partners with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to Offer App for People With Disabilities
- Tribunal Fines Employers for Contraventions of the AODA
- TTC Doesn’t Have Money to Make All Subway Stops Accessible
- Ministry of Health’s Prescription for Change for Clients With Vision Loss
- AODA Compliance Report Required From Businesses of 20 or More by Dec 31, 2014
- Brock Churches Recognized for Accessibility Improvements
- Blind Woman Calls Foul on Government Letters
- Is it Time for Local AODA Alliance Chapters?
- Premier Wynne Snubs 2014 Written Election Promise to 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- New Information On AODA Compliance!
- The Coming Tide of Website Disability Claims Under ADA
- Premier Wynne’s Mandate Letter to Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid Downplays His Duty to Implement and Enforce Ontario’s Disabilities Act Among A Blizzard of Other Ministry Priorities
- AODA Compliance in 2015: Are You Up to Date?
- Ten Years Ago Tomorrow, the Ontario Government Introduced Bill 118, Its Proposed Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Into the Ontario Legislature for First Reading
- New Statement on AODA By Minister Duguid! Really!
- Provincial Government Failing to Make Toronto Barrier Free, Disabilities Activist Says
- The Curse of the One Step
- Accessibility Claims Expected Over Websites
- Australian Public Service Commission launches video on disability
- Sussex Drive Scotiabank complies with bylaw despite lack of ramp
- Despite Promising to be the Most Open and Transparent Government in Canada, Wynne Government Again Tries Charging a Hefty Fee to Give Answers on Its Promises on Disability Accessibility
- A Failed Game Changer: Post-Secondary Education and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Metrolinx Backs Down!
- Centre Wellington Accessibility Report Endorsed
- Join us at Queen’s Park Friday November 28, 2014 to Celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Birth of the Grassroots Movement in Ontario for a Strong Disability Accessibility Law
- Former Lieutenant Governor to Champion Accessibility in Ontario
- The Varsity: The State of the Clubhouse
- Town to Continue Public Transportation Beyond November 17
- Committee Calls for Greater Accessibility
- the burg watch’s Accessibility Hall of Shame
- Nominations Sought for Accessibility Leadership Award
- Wynne Government Ignores Yet another Election Promise to Over 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities
- Still Time to RSVP to Attend Our Friday, November 28, 2014 Queens Park Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of the Disabilities Act Movement
- Politician AODA Time Explained
- The Best in Disability Advertising Awarded to Duracell at ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference
- The Accessibility Standards Advisory Council Submits Weak, Ineffective and Counter-productive Final Recommendations to the Ontario Government for Proposed Revisions to the Customer Service Accessibility Standard
- Online Voting Clicks With Residents in Ajax; Turnout Jumps 17% With GTA’s First Paperless Ballot
- Dr. Who Helps Ontario Government
- One Year Ago Today We Revealed that the Wynne Government Knew Staggering 70% of Private Sector Organizations with 20 or More Employees Were Violating Disabilities Act, But No Effective Enforcement, Despite Election Promises
- In Canada, DIY Wheelchair Ramps Are an Imperfect Fix
- NDP MPP Cindy Forster Grills Premier Wynne in the Legislature on Why Her Mandate Letters Marching Orders to Her Cabinet Ministers Leave out Most Government Promises on Disability Accessibility
- AODA 2014 – 2015 Upcoming Deadlines and Things to Work on in 2015 for 2016
- Durham MPP Granville Anderson’s New Bowmanville Office Poses Accessibility Hurdles
- Minister Duguid Learns From Neanderthals
- Verdi Club Did Not Meet Elections Ontario’s Accessibility Standards
- A Remarkable 20-Year Struggle for Disabled Rights: Hepburn
- Toronto Star Runs An Amazing Column on Tomorrow’s Celebration at Queens’s Park Tomorrow of the 20th Anniversary of the Grassroots Campaign for a Fully-Accessible Ontario for All People with Disabilities
- City Orders Restaurant to Remove Wheelchair Ramp
- AODA Alliance Holds Successful Celebration at Queens Park to Mark the 20th Anniversary of the Birth of Ontario’s Non-Partisan Movement for Strong Disability Accessibility Legislation
- While the Ontario Government Continues Multi-Year Dithering on Accessibility Rather than Keeping Its Promise to Effectively Enforce Ontarios Accessibility Legislation, the City of Toronto Wrongly Orders a Downtown Restaurant to Remove Its Wheelchair Ramp
- Minister Duguid Is A Nice Guy and His Dog Agrees
- Making Niagara the Accessible Destination of Choice
- 1.8 Million Ontarians with Disabilities Still Waiting for Justice:
- 2014 Year-End Retrospective on Our Non-Partisan Campaign for Disability Accessibility And More News from the Accessibility Front Lines
- Accessible Parking Spots are a Magnet for Selfish Drivers
- AODA – The Government’s Albatross
- The Ten Years of AODA Implementation Seasonal Carol
- ‘Not a niche market’: Accessibility for disabled business travellers takes centre stage
- The Business of Becoming Accessible in Whitby
- Ottawa Residents With Disabilities Laud Provincial Building Code Changes
- The Badeyes WordPress Theme is Now Live and Available for Download!
- Accessible Travel Kiosks Will Remove Barriers and Increase Independence
- Intelivote Releases Trends in Electronic Voting for 48 Ontario Municipalities
- Nostradamus Refuses To Predict 2015 AODA Implementation
- Civil Rights Advocates Challenge Metro-North’s Failure to Provide Wheelchair Access to the Upgraded Port Chester Station
- The Clock Is Ticking On AODA Compliance
- Toronto Employment Lawyer, Doug MacLeod, comments on Ontario’s Top Ten Employment Law Stories in 2014
- Province Moves to Make Buildings More Accessible for Disabled
- AODA New Year’s Resolutions Already A Total Failure
- A Critical Look at the Proposed Revisions to the Accessible Customer Service Standard
- Man With Disability Wants Apology from Theatre Chain
- Premier KathLying Wynne’s Governments Record for 2014, Nothing to Be Proud of!
- Scooter Tumble Down Stairs Leads to ‘Wheelchairs Only’ Message
- Wynne staffer suggested ‘longer-term role’ for Olivier
- New AODA resource for Web Developers Launched!
- Practising Outside the Technology Box
- Commission Warns City on Changes to Handi-Transit Rules
- Premier Wynne and Economic Develop Minister Duguid Respond to AODA Alliances Detail Proposals to Get Ontario Back on Schedule for Full Disability Accessibility by 2025
- Watch Captioned Videos of Last Fall’s Queen’s Park Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Ontario’s Grassroots Campaign for Strong Accessibility Legislation
- More Than Voting Booths: Accessibility of Electoral Campaigns for People With Disabilities in Ontario
- Please Use and Widely Circulate the AODA Alliance’s New Action Kit Which We Unveil Today
- Canada: The Employer Case For Effective Disability Management
- As the ADA Turns 25, Website Accessibility Issues Pose Legitimate Risks for the Financial Services Industry
- Ontarians Like Online Voting, but Turnout Boost May Be Minor, Study Suggests
- Nothing to Cheer for
- Watch The Agenda With Steve Paikin Tonight on TV Ontario, Featuring Interview with Former Ontario Lieutenant Governor David Onley and AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky
- Workers Must Play Active Role in Accommodation
- A Great New Tool in Our New Blitz to Get Every Member of the Ontario Legislature to Press the Government for New Action on Disability Accessibility
- Ontario Committed to Accessibility
- Government-Commissioned Independent Report Shows Serious Problems with Ontario Governments Implementation of Disabilities Accessibility Law
- Final Report of Mayo Moran’s Independent Review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Just Made Public Report Reveals Serious Problems
- Accessibility Issue Needs Urgent Attention in Whitby, Says Walk Organizer
- Ontario Needs to Boost Accessibility Efforts
- Send Your Member of the Ontario Legislature the Great Media Coverage of the Final Report of Mayo Moran’s Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Exclusive: Surrealism Of AODA Response To Moran Report Explained!
- AODA Alliance Asks Candidates for Leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party to Make Commitments on Disability Accessibility
- Accessibility is Their Final Frontier: Fed
- Mike Hammer Solves The AODA Courage Mystery
- Ontario to Reduce Enforcement of Accessibility Law
- Despite Mayo Moran Independent Review Report Recommending that Ontario Should Beef Up Enforcement, the Wynne Government Plans to Cut Back on Enforcement of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, Even Though Violations of this Law Remain Rampant Among Private Sector Organizations with At Least Twenty Employees
- Letting Down Ontario’s Disabled: Editorial
- Mike Hammer Solves The AODA Courage Mystery, Part Two:
- 12th Newspaper Editorial since 1998 Backs Our Accessibility Campaign
- NFP Q&A: Understanding Ontario’s Accessible Websites and Web Content Requirements
- NFP Q&A: Understanding Ontario’s Accessible Websites And Web Content Requirements – Part 2
- Province Abandoning Ontarians With Disabilities
- Still More Great Media Coverage and NDP Critic’s Response Against Ontario Government Plans to Cut Back on Already-Inadequate AODA Enforcement
- Mike Hammer And The Ontario Government Courage Mystery, Part Three
- Campus Barriers Unacceptable
- 86 Modern Accessible Transit Buses Coming to 13 Ontario Municipalities
- Mike Hammer Cracks The AODA Cowardice Case: Part Four
- Building University-Wide IT Accessibility
- Mapping an Accessible TTC
- Accessibility Progress Slow at Queen’s
- Call the New Ontario Government Toll-Free Line to Report AODA Violations – We Campaigned Over Two Years to Win This Toll-Free Number!
- Ontario Government Considers How To Sell Access Law
- Disability Advocates Question Toronto Parapan Am Games Readiness
- Town Learns About Alternative to Public Transit System
- Amazing Media Coverage of More Toronto Restaurants Refusing Blind Customers with Guide Dogs Shows Toronto Is Not Ready to Host 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Making Accessibility Standards Work for Durham Businesses
- Toronto’s Bermuda Triangle For Access
- Disability Laws Are Overwhelming Small Employers in Ontario, Canada Says Employment Lawyer Doug MacLeod
- Media Reports that a Guelph Children’s Play Centre Refused to Accommodate A Child with Cerebral Palsy
- Ontario Launches Grand Experiment To Teach People About Access!
- Accessibility Laws Not Enforced:Advocates
- Proposed Changes to the AODA Customer Service Standard
- Yet More Superb Media Coverage of the Need for the Wynne Government to Strengthen Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and of the Accessibility Barriers that Persist in the Lead-Up to the 2015 Toronto Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Be Warned: The Weakest Column Yet
- OPP Launches Text 911 Service for Deaf, Hard of Hearing, Speech Impaired
- LabCorp Offers eSSENTIAL Accessibility App to Make It Easier for People with Disabilities to Manage Health Care Online
- Helen Left a Proud Legacy
- The Magic Behind The Disappearing AODA Complaint Line
- Ontario Government Uses Moran Report!
- $25K Awarded Against Restaurant Owner Who Prevented Employee From Serving Employees Mother Because Of Service Animal
- The AODA Alliance’s Detailed Analysis of the Final Report of the Mayo Moran Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Pan Am Games Will Not Fulfill AODA Promises
- The AODA Alliance’s Detailed Analysis of the Final Report of the Mayo Moran Independent Review of the Implementation and Enforcement of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Kelsey Le Coure Denied Taxi Ride Because of Service Dog
- Wheelchair Users Upset City Council Might Put Taxi Reforms Into Reverse
- Ten New Toronto Paralympic Events
- AODA Alliance Marks Tenth Anniversary of the Legislatures Historic Unanimous Passage of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act by Issuing a News Release and Official Statement Calling for the Government to Release a Detailed Plan to Ensure Ontario Reaches Full Accessibility by 2025
- Only Pollyanna Celebrates AODA’S Tenth Anniversary
- Barb Turnbull’s Inspiring Spirit Lives On
- Honouring the Memory of Barb Turnbull – A Champion for Accessibility for People with Disabilities
- In the Wake of the AODA’s 10th Anniversary , Accessibility Comes up in the Legislature’s Question Period, in the 2015 Ontario Budget and in More Recent Media Coverage
- P.T. Barnum’s Secret AODA Advice Revealed
- Refusing Service to Customer With a Dog
- Jim McEwen at Queens Park to Raise Concerns of Age Discrimination Against Ontario Post-Stroke Patients Between 20 and 64
- Please Support Barrier-Free Canada – A New Disability Coalition that Advocates for a nation-wide Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Message from Interim Chief Commissioner Ruth Goba: Global Accessibility Awareness Day
- Ontario Human Rights Commission’s Chief Commissioner Endorses the AODA Alliance’s Call to Ensure a Legacy of Improved Tourism/ Hospitality Accessibility for the 2015 Toronto Pan/ ParaPan American Games
- Is Your Restaurant Pan Am or Para Pan Am Games Ready?
- Accessible Ramp to be Installed at Meaford Hall
- Global Accessibility Awareness Day: Minister Duguid Stumped
- Ontario Moving Forward with Accessibility Certification Program
- How the Ontario Government Should Mark the 10th Anniversary of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Advocates Calling for Official Government ID for Service Dogs
- Minister Duguid Explores Options
- Student Projects in Accessible Design Win Top Two Spots in IDeA Competition
- Ontario to Crack Down on Accessibility Violators
- Ontario Government Announces Measures to Implement Recommendations of 2014 Moran AODA Independent Review
- NDP MPP Percy Hatfield Introduces a Private Members Bill into the Ontario Legislature to Make it Easier for Businesses to Make Their Premises Accessible to Customers and Employees with Disabilities
- More and More Media Coverage of Our Accessibility Campaign During National Access Awareness Week
- New Ontario Access Action Plan: George Orwell Comments
- AODA Alliance Chair Files New Freedom of Information Application with the Ontario Government Ministry Responsible for Implementing and Enforcing the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
- Tribunal Hears Transit Issues
- AODA Alliance Guest Column in the Toronto Star on the 10th Anniversary of AODA Going into Effect Emphasizes that the Wynne Government Must Do More to Get Ontario on Schedule for Full Accessibility by 2025
- Parapan Ams a Missed Chance for T.O. Tourism
- AODA’S Fantastic Voyage
- Yet More Proof that the Wynne Government is Inexcusably Doing Nothing to Get More Restaurants, Stores and Other Tourism/Hospitality Services to Become Accessible to Customers with Disabilities Before the Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Parapan Am Games Policy Keeps Girl in Wheelchair From Having Friend Join Her in the Stands
- Windsor ‘Dragging Its Feet’ in Terms of Accessibility, Say Visually Impaired Residents
- Pan Am Games App Deemed Failure by Advocates for People With Disabilities(PWD’s)
- Mike Hammer Solves Mystery of No Access Spending
- Two Preventable Accessibility Problems Facing Tourists with Disabilities Already Surfaced for the Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games
- Ontario to Invest $6 Million in Accessibility Programs
- Dysfunction of Function, Accessibility and Inclusion
- AODA Failures: Hay Fever or Summer Vacations?
- The Wave of Action on Disability Accessibility Gradually Spreads Across Canada
- Politicians Quick to Embrace the Rights of the Homosexual Community but Drag Their Feet When it Comes to the Disabled
- Pan Am Visitors May Find Accessibility Hurdles
- Access Austerity Referendum in Ontario
- Stuck on the Sidelines
- Pan Am Games Accessibility Lacking During Opening Ceremonies, Woman Says
- Film Mogul Outraged Over Accessible Seating View at Air Canada Centre
- Top Ten Ontario Government Nonpromises To People Using Walkers
- Disabled Man Upset Orléans ServiceOntario Outlet Lacks Automated Door
- Stadium Needs to Improve Accessibility, Says Group
- Ontario Government Announces AODA World!
- Guelph Transit Going to Next-Generation Stop Calling and Display System
- Gaps in Ontario’s Disability strategy Highlighted with PanAm Games
- The Restaurant, The Cockroach And The Gangster
- Despite All the Official Rejoicing, Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games Sadly Missed a Huge Chance for a Great Legacy for Ontarians with Disabilities by Failing to Increase Accessibility of Tourism/Hospitality Venues like Restaurants and Stores
- Wynne Boast is a Parapan Sham
- AODA Alliance Makes Public a ‘Reality Check’ on the Wynne Government’s August 4, 2015 News Release Re the Upcoming Toronto 2015 ParaPan American Games
- Election Campaign Coverage Begins!
- Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan Am Games Official Website Lacks Required Accessibility for People with Disabilities – Flying in the Face of Wynne Governments Claim These Are the Most Accessible ParaPan American Games Ever
- Advocates Say There Are Flaws in ‘Most Accessible Parapan Am Games Ever’ Claim
- Accessing The Election
- Toronto 2015 Organization Confirms It’s Not Good Enough for Games Stadiums To Be Accessible
- George Brown student says she was denied housing over guide dog Enrolled in sign language course at college
- Blind Parapan Athletes Face More Barriers Than Most
- The Wall Of Unknowledge
- Still More Media Coverage of Toronto 2015 Games Accessibility Issues As the Games Conclude
- Toronto Star Runs Guest Column by AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky Reflecting on Toronto 2015 Pan/ParaPan American Games’ Accessibility Issues
- Disabled Ontario Boy Told to Stand to Prove Tall Enough to Ride Bumper Cars
- AODA: A Dog’s Breakfast!
- During this Federal Election, Join the Call for Passage of a Canadians with Disabilities Act
- AODA Compliance for Private Sector and Not-for-Profit Employers
- Accessibility and Transitions
- In the current Campaign for the Ontario Simcoe North By-Election, Urge New Conservative Leader Patrick Brown to Commit to Support the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act 2005
- The Election Campaign’s Fantastic Voyage
- Support for the Call for a Canadians with Disabilities Act During this Federal Election is Spreading
- The Three Access Worlds of Gulliver
- Attend the Toronto Transit Commission’s September 16, 2015 Annual Public Forum on Accessible Transit to Recount Accessibility Barriers You Face on TTC
- Raymond Burr Explains Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Focus: Employers Urged to Prepare for New AODA Requirements
- Attend September 29, 2015 Toronto All Candidates’ Debate on Federal Election’s Disability Issues
- The Zombie Election
- Use Three Great New Tools in This Federal Election to Support Passage of a Strong Canadians with Disabilities Act
- How Universal Access Law Stopped The Borg And Saved The Universe
- Accommodating Mental Illness in Condos
- Is There a Place for a Crowd Funding Website Just for Accessibility?
- Breaking News in the Campaign for a Barrier-Free Canada: Federal NDP Announces It will Support Enactment of the Canadians with Disabilities Act
- The Passport of Dorian Gray
- Federal Liberal party Promises to Introduce Canadians with Disabilities Act
- Ontario’s Targeted Accessibility Compliance Initiative
- Clarington Taxi Law Updated for Accessibility
- The Earth Martian
- Toronto to Stage International Paralympic Committee’s VISTA Conference in 2017
- AODA – New Deadlines Are Fast Approaching, And So Is A Compliance Audit
- Full Accessibility of Voting in the October 19, 2015 Federal Canadian Election Remains an Unacceptable Uncertainty for Voters with Disabilities
- Ryerson University Takes Innovative Approach to Accessibility Challenge
- 2015 ANA Multicultural Marketing & Diversity Conference presented by Time Inc
- AODA Audit Blitz for Retail Organizations
- Wynne Government Commendably Announces Targeted AODA Enforcement Blitz on Workplace Barriers Aimed at Large Retail Establishments in Ontario
- Premier Kathleen Wynne Promised The Most Open Government In Canada, But Her Economic Development Ministry Asks AODA Alliance Chair to Pay $4,200 To Fully Answer His June 4, 2015 Freedom Of Information Application On The Implementation And Enforcement Of The Accessibility For Ontarians With Disabilities Act
- Insights: Ontario Launches Workplace Accessibility Compliance Audits
- Help Develop Ontario’s Accessibility Certification Program
- NDP Demands Liberal Government Enforce Accessibility Law for Ontarians With Disabilities
- Proposed Ontario Changes to Accessibility Regulations
- Wynne Government Seeks Public Feedback on Its Proposals to Amend Two Accessibility Standards that Would Do Little for People with Disabilities But would Break an Important Promise to Ontarians with Disabilities
- Should the Wynne Government Create a Private Accessibility Certification Process?
- January 2016 Accessibility Requirements Need Attention Now
- Badeyes Launches Second Online Book in Its “WordPress for Badeyes” Series!
- The AODA Alliance Issues a News Release about Newly-Secured Government Documents that Show the Wynne Government Continues With Paltry Enforcement of Ontarios Disabilities Act, Despite Three Years of Rampant Private Sector Violations and 1.3 Million Dollars Left Unspent that Could Buy Lots More Enforcement
- Please Let the Wynne Government Know If You Support the AODA Alliance’s Finalized Submission on the Government’s Problematic Proposed Amendments to the 2007 Customer Service Accessibility Standard and the 2011 Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation
- No One With a Disability Should Be Made to Feel Invisible
- U of T Startups Build a More Inclusive and Accessible Toronto
- The AODA Alliance Writes Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid to Request Important Information Regarding the Wynne Government’s Consultation on its Problematic Proposal to Establish a Private Accessibility certification Process in Ontario
- Thousands of Ontario Businesses Missing Accessibility Deadlines
- NECC Explores Accessibility at December Event
- Master WordPress With This 3 in 1 Accessible Online Book!
- Ontario Appoints New Chair to Lead Accessibility Advisory Council
- Universal Washroom Standards
- AODA Compliance for 2016 – Giving and Receiving Feedback
- Report Calls for New Name, New Rules for Handi Transit
- Wynne Government Extends Time For Feedback on Troubling Proposed changes to Accessibility Standards, But Doesn’t Publicize This Extension
- City of Toronto Grapples with Accessible Parking Permit Abuse
- York Student Wins Mental-Health Fight; University Will No Longer Require Medical Diagnosis Before Providing Academic Accommodations
- Advocate Pushes Gas Station Aid for Disabled People
- 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
- Will New Accessible Parking Permits Combat Abuse?
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