Accessibility StatementI spent an afternoon reading the websites of nine accessibility suppliers selling into Ontario. Seven of them promise something that does not exist in the regulation.
77 days to 31 December 2026.
Three situations. One of them is yours.
A) You were sold "AODA certified".
B) You were sold "100% compliant in 48 hours".
C) You were sold "one line of code".
Here is what each of those is worth.
PROMISE 01 — "AODA certified". Not in the regulation. Ontario certifies nobody. There is no accrediting body, no register of certified sites, no seal the province issues. If someone hands you a certificate, they printed it themselves.
PROMISE 02 — "100% compliant in 48 hours". Not in the regulation. Checkout, account creation and search are tested by people walking through them, keyboard first, with a screen reader. A weekend script cannot complete a purchase. Whatever came back in 48 hours did not include the journeys that matter most to your customers.
PROMISE 03 — "One line of code". Not in the regulation. A widget sitting on top does not change the code a screen reader reads. The markup underneath — labels, roles, focus order — is exactly as it was before you pasted the line.
What does exist is narrower and more useful: a standard with a version and a level, a method naming the tools and the journeys, a result that admits the barriers still open, and the company that signs it. Ours carries a public code: an inspector, a customer or a buyer scans it and sees the record live.
A record exists. A certificate does not.
Write A, B or C in the comments. I answer every one personally and tell you what you actually bought.
Then send this to your provider and ask which of the three they sold you.
