Getting to compliance

Ontario’s Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (the act) came into force in 2005 and sets out a clear goal and timeframe to make Ontario accessible by 2025.  The next few blogs will talk about how the province and your own organization can do to work towards compliance. 

Raising awareness

• Launching a province-wide campaign to drive awareness, and to help organizations learn about their compliance requirements.
• Engaging in outreach to businesses, associations, the broader public sector and other key groups so that organizations know their obligations under the act.
• Letting organizations know when they need to file an accessibility report.

Here are some tools that you can use in your company to help comply with the Integrated Accessibility Standard. 

• identify accessibility problems in existing facilities and understand some of the solutions that may be required to meet your obligations under the AODA (self-audit/assessment checklist);
• write your policies modelled on the needs of small or large organizations, which includes a statement of organizational commitment; and,
• Develop Key messages for all staff
• Develop resources/tools to aid toward compliance
• Engage key training initiatives

What raising awareness initiatives has your organization taken to ensure compliance with the AODA?

If you are interested in learning more about Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) or how to make accessibility a natural part of your business through the application of Corporate Social Responsibility, please contact Sandra Broekhof @ 416-579-1035 orsandra_broekhof@sympatico.ca