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About Us

accessibletoronto.com is the brainchild of Chris Karatsoreos, who founded the online community when he himself was stricken with a disability and confined to a wheelchair. He quickly came to the realization that there were few sources of information to help him get around unhindered on a day-to-day basis. So, he set about creating one and named it accessibletoronto.com!

Our website is designed to provide a gateway to the critical knowledge that people with disabilities need to know to help them get the most of their lives; information on transportation, such as Wheel-Trans and accessibility information for entertainment venues, restaurants, banks, movie theatres, theatres, shopping malls, fitness clubs, hotels and social events in and around Toronto. It also contains information on medical supplies, legal issues, hospitals and rehabilitation clinics.

At accessibletoronto.com, our mission is clear. It is to empower people with disabilities with a website community that provides valuable information on accessibility, and also provides a vehicle to express their opinions.

Our objective is to improve the lives of our members by advocating their right to free and unencumbered access.

accessibletoronto.com donates a portion of its revenues to charity!

accessibletoronto wholeheartedly embraces and promotes the concept of Universal Design, a relatively new paradigm that emerged from barrier-free or accessible design and assistive technology. Barrier free design and assistive technology provide a level of accessibility for people with disabilities, but they often result in separate and stigmatizing solutions, for example, a ramp that leads to a different entry to a building than a main stairway. Universal Design strives to be a broad-spectrum solution that helps everyone, not just people with disabilities.

We encourage architects and builders to embrace it also.

The disability rights movement advocates equal access to social, political, and economic life which includes not only physical access but access to the same tools, services, organizations and facilities which we all pay for. accessibletoronto.com supports the Ontarians with Disabilities Act of 2001, designed to "improve the identification, removal and prevention of barriers faced by persons with disabilities" and promotes the further strengthening of this act to reflect enforcement through penalties or deadlines. We encourage the government to revisit the Act and pass a stronger, more effective Act.

Ontario’s first accessibility standard is the Accessibility Standards for Customer Service Regulation, O. Reg. 429/07. It came into effect on January 1, 2008.