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AODA

Ontario’s accessibility law, which requires larger organizations’ public websites to meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

Also called
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act sets out accessibility standards for organizations with employees in Ontario. Its website rule is the most specific in Canada. Since January 1, 2021, designated public sector organizations and businesses or nonprofits with 50 or more employees must make their public websites and web content posted after January 1, 2012 meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA, except for live captions and prerecorded audio description.

The organization that controls the website is responsible even when a vendor built it. Organizations with 20 or more employees also file an accessibility compliance report with the province; the next deadline for businesses and nonprofits is December 31, 2026. Our maintained summary is at AODA.

Source

How to make websites accessible

Government of Ontario, 2026. Checked .

Accessible Canada Act
Canada’s federal accessibility law, covering federally regulated organizations such as banks, airlines, and telecoms.
WCAG
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, the international standard for accessible web content that most laws point at.
Conformance level
WCAG’s three tiers of requirements, A, AA, and AAA, where Level AA is what laws and contracts ask for.

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