Ontario needs to be more accessible to people with disabilities. It makes good sense — economically and socially. By working together — individuals, communities, organizations, businesses — we are making good progress towards our goal of an accessible Ontario by 2025.

Ontario’s municipalities have a special role in making their communities accessible for people of all abilities.

Accessibility advisory committees

Under the Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2001, municipalities with more than 10,000 residents have to establish local accessibility advisory committees. Most of the members of these committees have to be people with disabilities.

About 150 municipalities have set up local accessibility advisory committees.

The accessibility advisory committees work with their local councils to identify and break down barriers for people with disabilities.

The work they do can make a real difference for people with disabilities in their communities.

And we want to give them more of a helping hand.

This section is for municipalities and their local accessibility advisory committees. We want to tell their success stories, post photographs and share best practices.

As time goes on, we’ll post tools and resources to help them continue to promote accessibility at the local level.

In this way, we can support each other and learn from one another.