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Proposed Accessibility Requirements, Proposed integrated accessibility standards under the AODA, public consultation, Regulatory Registry, The Information and Communications Standard, the Licence Appeal Tribunal, training, Transportation standards
Not exact matches
Proposed revisions include using different terminology to make
requirements clearer, matching the
requirements of the Customer Service Standard with similar
requirements in other
accessibility standards, adding wording to clarify the intent of
requirements and correcting inconsistencies across the standards.
The council's
proposed changes would align the application
requirements of the Customer Service Standard with the other
accessibility standards.
In addition, the government is
proposing to amend Ontario Regulation 629 to modernize the technical
requirements for highway vehicles (e.g., buses, transit buses, motor coaches, taxis, physically - disabled - passenger vehicles, and school buses) as part of the ministry's
proposed standards under the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act.
In the previous instalment of this series on the
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), we talked about the general and common
requirements for the Information and Communication, Employment and Transportation Standards found in the
Proposed Integrated
Accessibility Regulation (PIAR), which is slated to become law around July 2011 (not confirmed).
«The long term objective of this initial
proposed employment
accessibility standard is to set out policies, procedures and
requirements for the identification, removal and prevention of barriers across all stages of the employment life cycle for persons with disabilities.»
The comment outlines NAR's support for clear website
accessibility standards but raises numerous technical concerns with some of the
proposed requirements that ignore the practical challenges members face when creating and maintaining websites.
The letter outlines NAR's support for clear website
accessibility standards and explains concerns with previous
requirements proposed by the Department that fail to recognize the practical implementation challenges for website owners.
Back in September 2010, the DOJ issued an Advance Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking regarding the
accessibility of web information and services, which sought to add web
accessibility requirements to Title III.