The Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) outlines every public institution's legal duty to accommodate and remove barriers for people with disabilities.
Educators, in particular, must consider ways to ensure that instruction is barrier-free.
Accessibility Tools and Resources
Accessible Instructional Design
Alternative Formats
Alternate Education Resources Ontario (AERO) is a web-based digital repository providing alternative format texts to public school students with perceptual disabilities.
The Centre for Equitable Library Access is a public library service for Canadians with print disabilities. Books, newspapers, and magazines are made available in audio, digital texts, and braille.
Accessibility Across Operating Systems
Web Captioner provides real-time captions for any audio input and shows it directly in your Internet browser.
Use with Zoom breakout rooms (which do not have live transcription available).
How to Make Documents Accessible Using New Xerox Photocopiers
These instructions explain how to make photocopied documents readable/searchable by assistive reading software ie. Read&Write for Google Chrome, OrbitNote. These instructions will work for the new Xerox photocopiers that have been networked (see image to the left).
Xerox OCR Instructions.pdf