2023-2027 Multi-Year Accessibility Plan

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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.

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.

Consultation has concluded

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