Category: Inclusion & Accessibility
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Not Readable, Not Current, Not There: Accessibility Documents on Ontario School Board Websites
Ontario’s accessibility regulation refers to four documents a school board makes public about accessibility, and to telling the public that accessible formats are available. We walked all 72 board websites on 6 October 2026 looking for them. Four in five of the files boards post fail basic checks a screen reader needs, most of the…
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Yes on the Form, Not in the File
On their accessibility compliance reports, Ontario school boards are asked whether their websites meet the province’s accessibility standard. We gathered every answer that could be found for the 72 boards from 2015 to 2025 and set it beside the 2026 file checks on each board’s accessibility documents. Almost every answer found is Yes. The files…
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The 2026 Results Are Public: What We Found at 72 School Boards, and What We Wrote to Two Ministers
The 2026 Board Report Card is public: results for all 72 Ontario district school boards on codes of conduct, bullying prevention and intervention, and accessibility documents. No board met every requirement tested. The sector results went to the Minister of Education and the Minister for Seniors and Accessibility on 15 October 2026, and the letters…