June 8, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
With the deadline now fast approaching, organizations must review any accessibility areas they need to address in order to certify compliance with AODA requirements by this new deadline (to the extent they have not already done so). Read more athttps://aoda.ca/workplace-accessibility-and-the-upcoming-aoda-compliance-deadlines/ Related
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Please Send Us Your Feedback on the AODA Alliance’s Draft Brief to the Health Care Standards Development Committee on the Disability Barriers in Ontario’s Health Care System
July 23, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
We’ve been busy as can be, writing a brief that we plan to submit by August 11, 2021 to the Health Care Standards Development Committee. The Ontario Government appointed that Committee back in 2017 to come up with recommendations on what the promised Health Care Accessibility Standard should include. The Health Care Accessibility Standard is […]
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At the AODA Alliance’s Request, CTV Commendably Corrects an Inaccurate Online News Report About Ontario’s Critical Care Triage Plans
June 9, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
Who watches the watchers? Once again, the AODA Alliance has had to do so, when it comes to monitoring media coverage or lack of coverage of the danger since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic of disability discrimination in access to life-saving critical care in Ontario hospitals. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/at-the-aoda-alliances-request-ctv-commendably-corrects-an-inaccurate-online-news-report-about-ontarios-critical-care-triage-plans/ Related
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Workplace Accessibility and the Upcoming AODA Compliance Deadlines
June 8, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
With the deadline now fast approaching, organizations must review any accessibility areas they need to address in order to certify compliance with AODA requirements by this new deadline (to the extent they have not already done so). Read more athttps://aoda.ca/workplace-accessibility-and-the-upcoming-aoda-compliance-deadlines/ Related
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AODA Alliance Writes Toronto Mayor John Tory and City Council to Thank Them for Maintaining the Ban on Electric Scooters
May 12, 2021 / by BBG Security / All, aoda., aodaalliance
Read more at https://aoda.ca/aoda-alliance-writes-toronto-mayor-john-tory-and-city-council-to-thank-them-for-maintaining-the-ban-on-electric-scooters/
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Looking Back at the Stressful 2020 and Forward to the Hopeful 2021 – a Year-End Report to Our Many Grassroots Accessibility Supporters from the AODA Alliance – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
December 24, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
This overwhelming year is almost over! Here are reflections on what we’ve done this year in our non-partisan campaign for accessibility and full inclusion for people with disabilities, and on what we will face in 2021. The battle for accessibility was more uphill this year, with previously-unimaginable barriers being created for people with disabilities. Yet […]
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Yesterday’s Roundtable on Critical Care Triage during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Hosted by the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Leads the AODA Alliance to Again Write Health Minister Christine Elliott to Raise Important New Issues – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
December 18, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
Given the number of participants, we could only scratch the surface on this life-and-death issue during this two-hour roundtable. The painful fact that that day, Ontario had another record-breaking number of new COVID-19 infections made this discussion especially urgent and long-overdue. Read mroe athttps://aoda.ca/yesterdays-roundtable-on-critical-care-triage-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-hosted-by-the-ontario-human-rights-commission-leads-the-aoda-alliance-to-again-write-health-minister-christine-elliott-to/ Related
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AODA Alliance Asks Toronto Mayor John Tory to Stand up for People with Disabilities and to Stand up to Corporate Lobbyists for Electric Scooter Rental Companies who are Inundating City Hall – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
November 4, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
If he won’t just stop this now, we urge Mayor Tory to himself hold an open, accessible series of virtual town halls with people with disabilities in Toronto to hear our concerns about e-scooters. Read more athttps://aoda.ca/aoda-alliance-asks-toronto-mayor-john-tory-to-stand-up-for-people-with-disabilities-and-to-stand-up-to-corporate-lobbyists-for-electric-scooter-rental-companies-who-are-inundating-city-hall/ Related
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Paperwork in the AODA
October 15, 2020 / by BBG Security / aoda.
This article will explore how paperwork in the AODA may create barriers, and ways to remove them. Read more at https://aoda.ca/paperwork-in-the-aoda/
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AODA Alliance submits A Brief to Accessibility Standards Canada Listing the Federal Accessibility Standards We Need the Federal Government to Now Develop and Enact – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
September 29, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
Last year, Canada’s Parliament passed the Accessible Canada Act ACA. It requires Canada to become accessible to people with disabilities by 2040. It lets the Federal Government enact a series of enforceable federal accessibility standards. Those regulations would spell out what organizations within reach of the Federal Government must do to remove and prevent disability […]
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AODA Alliance calls on the Ontario Government to Appoint an Associate Deputy Minister of Education, to Create and Implement a Provincial Plan to ensure that A Third of a Million Students with Disabilities Are Fully and Safely Included in School Re-Opening – Accessibility News, your Online Magazine Devoted to Disability Accessibility.
September 23, 2020 / by BBG Security / All, aoda.
Today the AODA Alliance wrote Ontario’s Minister of Education Stephen Lecce. We called on the Ford Government to immediately appoint an Associate Deputy Minister of Education with specialized expertise in educating students with disabilities. That official should be immediately assigned to oversee the development and implementation of a desperately-needed and currently missing provincial plan to […]
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