Accessibility Plan and Progress Report consultations
Current status: Planned
We plan to hold our next consultation for our 2026 to 2028 Accessibility Plan from June 2 to 23, 2025. This will be a focused consultation.
About the consultations
We hold consultations when developing our Accessibility Plans and Accessibility Progress Reports. We do so in line with the Accessible Canada Act and Accessible Canada Regulations. Our objectives are to:
Accessibility Plans
- Consult people with disabilities to inform our plans
Accessibility Progress Reports
- Consult people with disabilities to obtain feedback about:
- Barriers to accessibility that individuals experienced interacting with us
- How we are doing overall in implementing our Accessibility Plan
- Further suggestions or feedback
We use the results to inform the objectives, barriers and actions in our Accessibility Plan. We also use the results to make changes to implement our Accessibility Plan and maintain our high level of accessibility.
We published our first three-year Accessibility Plan for the period 2023 to 2025 in December 2022. We published Accessibility Progress Reports in 2023 and 2024. By December 31, 2025, we will publish our new Accessibility Plan for the period 2026 to 2028. This is the next step in our planning and reporting cycle.
Who we consult
We understand the problems that arise from consulting the same groups too often. We chose to consult specific people who often interact with us. These groups include:
- our employees
- members of our Board of Directors
- members of our technical committees who are responsible for drafting accessibility standards
- recipients of research funding from our Grants and Contributions Program
How to participate
We send an email invitation to complete our online survey to the four groups listed above. Alternative ways to complete the survey are offered and communicated.
Other ways to provide feedback
The consultations are not the only way to provide feedback about our Accessibility Plans or accessibility barriers you experience in interacting with us.
We welcome feedback from everyone at anytime. Please use the Accessibility feedback form or the alternative ways listed to provide feedback.
Your feedback will be used to advance the objectives in our Accessibility Plan as well as our overall accessibility.
What we heard
We include information about our first consultation, held in 2022, in our first Accessibility Plan:
- 2023 to 2025 Accessibility Plan
- See the Executive Summary, Consultations section and Appendix A
We include “What we heard” reports for our consultations in our Accessibility Progress Reports. We also report on what we heard through the feedback forms we receive:
- 2023 Accessibility Progress Report
- See the Consultations section
- See the Other feedback received section
- 2024 Accessibility Progress Report
- See the Consultations section
- See the Other feedback received section