Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation, accessible or conversion ready versions of textbooks and print-based supplementary learning resources from their producers
O. Reg. 191/11, s. 17 (producers of educational or training material)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
As of .
What it requires
- If you are a producer of educational or training textbooks for educational or training institutions, make accessible or conversion ready versions of the textbooks available to the institutions upon request; this has applied since (s. 17 (1) and (3)).
- If you are a producer of print-based educational or training supplementary learning resources for educational or training institutions, make accessible or conversion ready versions of the printed materials available to the institutions upon request; this has applied since (s. 17 (2) and (3)).
- The duty falls on every obligated organization that is such a producer, large or small, meaning one that provides goods, services or facilities to the public or other third parties and has at least one employee in Ontario (ss. 1 (3), 2 and 17).
- The information and communications standards do not apply to products and product labels except as Part II specifically provides, to unconvertible information or communications (it is not technically feasible to convert them, or the technology to convert them cannot readily be obtained), or to information you do not control directly or indirectly through a contractual relationship, except as sections 15 and 18 require (s. 9 (2) and (4)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
A director sets the administrative penalty from Schedule 3 for a corporation ($500 to $15,000) or Schedule 2 for an individual or unincorporated organization ($200 to $2,000), by the impact of the contravention and the contravention history (s. 83 (1)). Only where both are major may the director treat that penalty as a daily penalty, so $15,000 a day for a corporation to a maximum of $100,000, and $2,000 a day for an individual or unincorporated organization to a maximum of $50,000.
- Rule
- Per violation only
- As of
- Currency
- CAD
- Fixed cap
- 100,000
- Per violation unit
- Day
- Per violation amount
- 15,000
Over one month, CAD 100,000, which is the instrument's own cap: the penalty stops accruing on day 7.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
A director appointed under section 30 of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Obligation class
Disclosure
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- Any of
- Criteria
- is a producer of educational or training textbooks for educational or training institutions
- is a producer of print-based educational or training supplementary learning resources for educational or training institutions
What this law does
Section 17 (1) requires every obligated organization that is a producer of educational or training textbooks for educational or training institutions to make accessible or conversion ready versions of the textbooks available to the institutions upon request.
Section 17 (2) requires every obligated organization that is a producer of print-based educational or training supplementary learning resources for educational or training institutions to make accessible or conversion ready versions of the printed materials available to the institutions upon request. Section 17 (3) requires accessible or conversion ready versions of textbooks by and of the printed supplementary learning resources by .
The information and communications standards do not apply to products and product labels except as the Part specifically provides, to unconvertible information or communications, or to information the organization does not control directly or indirectly through a contractual relationship, except as sections 15 and 18 require. They are unconvertible if it is not technically feasible to convert them. They are also unconvertible if the technology to convert them cannot readily be obtained.
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