Resources on issues of accessibility and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA)
Under the Transportation Standard of the AODA, companies that provide public transportation have to create and implement policies and plans to make their services accessible to passengers with disabilities. Since this law has been enacted, public transit has taken steps to make it easier for everyone to use their services.
Public transportation includes:
Under the Transportation Standard of the AODA, school boards must create and implement individual transportation plans for students with disabilities.
An individual transportation plan is a written plan detailing how a student will travel from home to school and back again. Individual transportation plans make sure each child gets to and from school in the way that is best and most safe.
The Employment Standard of the AODA states that all organizations with performance management processes must make those processes accessible to workers with disabilities. In addition, employers must accommodate workers with disabilities advancing their careers by gaining new responsibilities or transferring to higher positions. Likewise, if organizations redeploy workers to other positions, they must accommodate redeployed workers with disabilities.
Under the Employment Standard of the AODA, employers must provide accessible information to workers with disabilities through accessible formats or communication supports upon request.
Accessible information should include:
The Employment Standard under the AODA states that all public sector organizations, and private or non-profit organizations with fifty or more workers, must develop and document a process for writing return to work plans.
Return to work plans are written documents that provide support for workers who have been absent from work because of a disability and who need disability-related accommodations when they return to work. Workers can have return to work plans if their illness or injury is not covered by the return to work process under a different law, such as the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB).
