Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

Statute Ontario, Canada · 2005

AODA and its Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation require organisations with 50 or more employees in Ontario to make their public websites and web content conform to WCAG 2.0 Level AA, and to file periodic compliance reports with the province. It is the North American regime that most resembles the European Accessibility Act: a named technical standard, a stated deadline, and a filing obligation — rather than the American approach of litigating it one defendant at a time.

Horizontal regime. It binds companies by what they do with data, software or customers, not by the sector they sit in. The industries below are where it creates specific, additional duties — not the limit of who has to comply.

Countries

Where this binds. Each links to the providers apis.io has catalogued there.

canada

Regions

north america

Industries

Each links to that industry as a scored cohort — so the question "how ready is this sector for the regime that governs it?" becomes one you can actually look at.

e commerce platformretaileducationgovernmentbankingtechnology

Implemented by these standards

A regulation is the law; a standard is the machine-readable contract that satisfies it. Almost every regime in this catalog restricts an interface rather than requiring one — where a standard exists, it is the part a provider can actually publish.

WCAG
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