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AODA · WCAG 2.2 AA · Brampton, Ontario

AODA & WCAG Accessibility Compliance for Brampton, Ontario Businesses

Brampton is one of Canada's fastest-growing and most diverse cities and a major goods-movement hub in Peel Region — its logistics, warehousing, and manufacturing employers cluster near Highways 410, 407, and 401 and Toronto Pearson, and many cross the 20-employee threshold that triggers an Accessibility Compliance Report. The city's deep food-processing and manufacturing base often ships into the United States, which adds ADA exposure on top of AODA. Alongside that sits a large independent retail, trades, and South Asian small-business community along Queen Street and the city's shopping plazas, where customer-facing websites and online stores increasingly need to meet Ontario's accessibility standards.

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What we do

Accessibility services for Brampton businesses

AODA Compliance Audit

Automated plus manual screen-reader and keyboard testing against WCAG 2.2 AA, with audit-ready conformance documentation. From $1,500.

Website Accessibility Remediation

We fix the real source code — never a cosmetic overlay — and re-test, so the result holds up if a complaint ever lands.

Accessible Shopify & B2B Builds

New Shopify stores and B2B portals, accessible by design and built to convert. From $6,000 — fundable via CSBFP / CanExport.

Brampton

Built for Brampton's businesses

Common local sectors in scope for the Dec 31, 2026 AODA deadline:

  • Logistics, warehousing & goods movement
  • Manufacturing & food processing
  • Independent retail & e-commerce
  • Trades & contracting services
  • Healthcare & professional services
  • Cross-border (US-exporting) businesses

FAQ

AODA in Brampton — common questions

What is the December 31, 2026 AODA deadline, and does my Brampton business need to file?
Under Ontario's Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation (IASR), organizations with 20 or more employees must file an Accessibility Compliance Report (ACR) by December 31, 2026 — this is an Ontario government filing, not a US VPAT. Many Brampton logistics, manufacturing, and food-processing employers cross that 20-employee line. The legal floor for your website is WCAG 2.0 AA; we build and test to WCAG 2.2 AA as best practice so your good-faith file is solid. This is accessibility-engineering guidance, not legal advice — we work alongside your counsel.
Can't I just install a free accessibility widget or overlay on my site?
We'd steer you away from that. Overlays and widgets (the 'one line of JavaScript' tools) typically catch only about 30–40% of WCAG issues, and courts have rejected them. In 2025 the US FTC fined the largest overlay vendor, accessiBe, US$1,000,000 for false compliance claims, and 456 sites that had a widget installed were still sued in the first half of 2025. A free widget can give a false sense of safety while leaving real barriers in place. We fix the actual source code — the kind of work that holds up and gives you an audit-ready good-faith defense.
What's the real legal risk in Ontario if my Brampton site isn't accessible?
The often-quoted $100,000/day for a corporation (and $50,000/day for a director) are statutory maximums on conviction — context, not a typical outcome. The everyday risk is the December 31, 2026 reporting deadline plus a complaint to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, since the AODA itself has no private right of action. Defending a single complaint commonly runs $30,000 or more. A recent audit and remediation plan are your good-faith defense. If you also sell into the US, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) adds a separate exposure.
What does PassProof actually do for a Brampton business, and what does it cost?
We're a remote-first accessibility-engineering studio serving Brampton and all of Ontario. We run AODA/WCAG 2.2 AA audits with manual screen-reader and keyboard testing (not just automated scans), then remediate your source code and provide audit-ready conformance documentation. We also build accessible Shopify and B2B sites from scratch. Audits start at $1,500 and accessible builds from $6,000, and we can point you to Canadian funding such as the CSBFP and, for US-exporting firms, CanExport. Start free with the PassProof Report at getpassproof.com/risk-snapshot.

See where your Brampton site stands — free

The PassProof Report scans your site against Ontario's AODA/WCAG rules in ~30 seconds: your top failures, any overlay it detects, what applies to your size, and a fixed-price path. No obligation.

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