Departmental Plan at a glance: 2025 to 2026
A departmental plan describes a department’s priorities, plans, and associated costs for the upcoming 3 fiscal years.
Key priorities
Accessibility Standards Canada’s top priorities for 2025 to 2026 are as follows:
- Develop standards in the 7 priority areas of the Accessible Canada Act. We will:
- publish 2 standards
- publicly review 3 standards
- launch one new standard
- establish one new technical committee
- continue to support technical committees as they advance 13 standards at different stages of development
- jointly develop one standard with another standards development organization
- Increase collaborative opportunities, including expanding and strengthening our partnerships with diverse disability organizations at a local, national and international level.
- Continue to engage with provincial and territorial governments.
- Strengthen engagement with federally regulated entities, industry and other stakeholders, to encourage organizations to get involved in the development and use of standards and technical guides.
- Facilitate the public’s access to information through the Centre of Expertise. Such information includes but is not limited to:
- standards in development and published
- research that has received funding through our grants and contributions program
- technical guides that provide guidance and best practices
- Continue to ensure timely and consistent communications with the public through our website, social media, news releases, and the distribution of our quarterly newsletter to stakeholders.
- Enhance our communications by, including but not limited to, increasing visibility at and promotion of the organization’s participation at public events and activities, reviewing our website’s information architecture to improve web presence and accessibility, and ensure that the needs of our users are met.
Highlights
In 2025 to 2026, total planned spending (including internal services) for Accessibility Standards Canada is $21,327,716 and total planned full-time equivalent staff (including internal services) is 58. For complete information on Accessibility Standards Canada’s total planned spending and human resources, read the Planned spending and human resources section of the full plan.
The following provides a summary of the department’s planned achievements for 2025 to 2026 according to its approved Departmental Results Framework. A Departmental Results Framework consists of a department’s core responsibilities, the results it plans to achieve, and the performance indicators that measure progress toward these results.
Core responsibility: Accessibility standards
Planned spending: $15,619,551
Planned human resources: 40
Departmental results:
- research informs the next generation of standards
- accessibility standards are developed to address barriers in priority areas
- stakeholders are engaged in the delivery of our mandate
- best practices on accessibility are publicly available
We will achieve these results by:
- publishing 2 standards
- publicly reviewing 3 standards
- launching one new standard
- jointly developing one standard
- establishing one new technical committee
- continuing to support technical committees as they advance 13 standards currently in development
We will expand and strengthen our partnerships with private and public disability organizations at a local, national and international level. We will also continue to engage with provincial and territorial governments and federally regulated entities.
We will facilitate the public’s access to information through our Centre of Expertise. Such information includes, but is not limited to:
- published standards or those under public review
- reports on completed funded research projects
- technical guides that provide guidance and best practices, etc.
More information about accessibility standards can be found in the full plan.