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Note: It’s amazing how Councillors like the one in this article whine about cost when the AODA has been around for almost 8 years already, what were they doing up to this point?
A five-year accessibility plan is a requirement under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) — provincial legislation requiring municipalities to develop and implement standards for barrier-free living.
Toronto Star
Published on Wednesday December 26, 2012
Sharon Aschaiek Special to The Star
Blending into the building’s exterior design, a curved concrete ramp is the first clue that The Foundery embraces accessibility.
Similar clues can be found almost everywhere inside the co-working and event space at 376 Bathurst St. in Toronto’s west end: flexible work stations with customizable desks and chairs; cupboards and lockers at wheelchair height; fully accessible main-floor washrooms; and an elevator for the two-storey space.
Posted December 22, 2012
The Ministry of Community and Social Services amended Ontario Regulation 191/11, the Integrated Accessibility Standards (IAS) under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA,) to include new standards governing the design of public spaces in the built environment.
Read more at
https://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/source/regs/english/2012/elaws_src_regs_r12413_e.htm#skipmenu
by Yosie Saint-Cyr
December 20, 2012
Ontario’s Accessibility Standard for Customer Service came into effect on January 1, 2012 for all businesses and not-for-profits in the province with more than one employee. If an organization has more than 20 employees, an online report must be filed by December 31, 2012 to demonstrate to the government that accessibility has been achieved under the Customer Service Standard.
The issues raised in the County of Brant and in Hamilton demonstrate a disturbing trend of using the Integrated Accessibility Standards for transportation as a tool to create an exclusive rather than inclusive society and the removal of independence and freedom that we’ve had in favour of attempting to imprison us in our homes and deny us services.
Read more at
https://enforcement.aoda.ca/hamilton-turns-an-oops-into-a-huge-mess/
Al MacRury Tue Dec 11 2012
Some legally blind Hamilton Street Railway riders are shocked by the city’s recent decision to take away their “free” bus passes.
Hamilton Spectator file photo Blindsided.
That’s how some legally blind Hamilton Street Railway riders — including myself — feel about their municipality’s recent decision to take away their “free” bus passes. And using the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) to justify such an action leaves us lost in the dark.
TORONTO, December 10, 2012 – Marking International Human Rights Day, the Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) today released its Framework for the Law as it Affects Persons with Disabilities. The Framework enables policy-makers, legislators, courts, advocates, community organizations and others to understand and evaluate the effects of laws, policies and practices on persons with disabilities, and provides a foundation for law reform efforts in this area.
ELECTIONS ONTARIO DOESN’T KNOW WHEN OR IF IT WILL BE READY TO TEST THESE IN AN ONTARIO BY-ELECTION, OR EVEN IF IT WILL EVER AGREE TOO TEST THESE
December 7 2012
SUMMARY
The AODA Alliance continues to spearhead a vigorous campaign to get Ontario voters to have access to the option of telephone and internet voting in Ontario elections. Below, we provide the latest in this seemingly never-ending saga.
Here we set out:
By Flannery Dean, CBC News Posted: Dec 5, 2012
Under the current system, the blind as well as those who use canes, walkers, scooters and wheelchairs are allowed to ride HSR free of charge.
A change to Hamilton’s transit policy will force riders with disabilities to pay full fare starting in the new year, the city announced Tuesday.
Karen McCall
December 4, 2012
Ironically on the United Nations International Day for people with Disabilities, the County of Brant Community Services Committee approved yet another variant to their unaffordable transportation scheme which ignores any of the Integrated Accessibility Standards for specialized transportation.
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – Dec. 3, 2012) – December 3 marks the United Nations’ International Day of Persons with Disabilities. According to the UN, persons with disabilities make up 15 percent of the world’s population and a quarter of the global population is estimated to be directly affected by disability, as care-givers or family members. The theme for 2012 is focused on removing the barriers to an inclusive and accessible society for all.
December 3, 2012
SUMMARY
On December 3, 2012, Ms. Kathleen Wynne became the second candidate to replace Dalton McGuinty as leader of the Ontario Liberal Party (and to become Ontario’s next premier), who has made written commitments to us on disability accessibility. In her December 3, 2012 letter to the AODA Alliance, set out below, Ms. Wynne makes all of the five commitments that we sought from the candidates for leadership of the Ontario Liberal Party. In her letter she commits to:
