2023-2027 Multi-Year Accessibility Plan
Consultation has concluded
Accessibility impacts everyone. It affects our ability to experience joy, safety, convenience and adventure.
What considerations need to be made to ensure City of Vaughan programs, policies, procedures and services are free from barriers? How can we ensure City-managed public spaces thoughtfully consider the needs of individuals with vision impairments, hearing deficiencies, social anxieties, autism and sensory sensitivities or developmental delays, just to name a few? How can the City ensure you have access to the information you require in the format you require it in?
Under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), the City of Vaughan has an obligation to regularly develop and monitor a Multi-Year Accessibility Plan. To draft this plan, a wide range of community members and residents — particularly those with lived experience of barriers to access, equity and inclusion — must be consulted with and welcomed into the conversation.
The City is committed to ensuring the next Multi-Year Accessibility Plan (2023-2027) will be designed with the inputs of a greater and wider range of Vaughan residents than ever before. That means collecting the inputs of as many residents, workers and visitors to Vaughan as possible; in particular, those who have disabilities, or who are loved ones of people with disabilities or who work with people with disabilities.
GET INVOLVED!
Engagement on the Multi-Year Accessibility Plan update closed on April 2.
From Feb. 15 to April 2, members of the public were invited to share their accessibility stories and describe what a fully enabling and accessible City of Vaughan looks and feels like.
Share Your Story
What does a fully accessible and enabling City of Vaughan look like to you?
What is your own experience of accessibility and inclusion? And what would you like the City of Vaughan to learn from your accessibility story?
One in every two people experience some form of a barrier that prevents them from performing everyday life tasks, carrying out work or household responsibilities, or engaging in leisure, recreational and social activities.
Whether it’s a broken bone, mental-health related, a chronic health condition, substance dependence, a learning disability, neurodivergence like ADHD or autism, seizures, or pregnancy, to name only a few, it’s inevitable that you, a loved one or someone you know well, are confronting the obstacles and frustrations that result from having a disability. Sometimes they are temporary and sometimes they are not. What should we know about the needs, concerns and dreams of those living with disabilities?
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Diversity and Inclusion Officer Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer
City of Vaughan
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