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Ways to Make Your Website More Accessible
Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), your website must be accessible unless the content was posted prior to 2012. As website design flourishes by using more intricate layouts and colour, organizations and designers may have lost sight of accessibility. Ensuring that your website is universally accessible is crucial for the benefit of all users. Adjusting a website as a non-developer can be intimidating, but it isn’t as difficult as you think. Below are five simple ways to make your website more accessible.
Creating a Workplace Personalized Emergency Response Plan
Under the AODA [Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (IASR) S.27(1)], employers must provide personalized emergency response plans to workers who have temporary or permanent disabilities. While there are only a few guidelines that outline what a workplace personalized emergency response plan must include, there are some best practices that all businesses should follow when creating an emergency response plan. Below, we outline information to include when creating a workplace personalized emergency response plan.
More Media Coverage of Accessibility Issues and Voting Barriers Facing Voters with Disabilities
Elections Ontario Accepts As Accurate AODA Alliance Chair David Lepofsky’s Report of Voting Barriers He Faced Last Week
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance Update United for a Barrier-Free Ontario for All People with Disabilities http://www.aodaalliance.org aodafeedback@gmail.com Twitter: @aodaalliance
June 6, 2018
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Our non-partisan campaign to raise accessibility issues and concerns in the 2018 Ontario election has secured even more great media attention as Voting Day gets close!
Accommodating Invisible Disabilities in the Workplace
Accommodating invisible disabilities in the workplace can pose challenges to both the employer and the person with the disability. Most people are familiar with disabilities they can see. As a result, employers may be more comfortable with accommodating visible disabilities. But what about invisible disabilities? This article will explore invisible disabilities and outline how an employer can be accommodating in the workplace.
Ontario Election: Disability Advocates Hope New Government Will Revisit Accessibility Law
By Michelle McQuigge The Canadian Press
(Apr 20, 2016): Global News reported on hurdles people with services dogs face. So, we went back to see what the provincial government has done since then. Advocates say Ontario is backtracking on requirements for small businesses. Christina Stevens explains.
TORONTO If Emily Daigle had wanted to watch Ontario make history when it passed Canadas first accessibility law in 2005, she would have had to do so from afar thanks to the lack of wheelchair accommodations in the legislatures visitors gallery.