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The Forum is a channel designed to foster and maintain communications between people with disabilities and to help them stay connected. Its aim is to encourage dialogue and the exchange of ideas between members.

Therefore, send us your ideas to promote and advance accessibility and we’ll put the collective clout of our accessibletoronto community behind them.

The Forum is also designed to be a place for Job Postings, Classified Advertising and for Personals.

Let us know about your experiences with accessibility, good or bad. Tell us about these venues that go the extra mile to make it easier for us and, importantly, let us know about the establishments that don’t appear to put themselves out for us.

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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.