Accessibility.

Vaughan College is committed to providing an accessible school environment for students, families, staff, and visitors with disabilities. We work in line with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 (AODA) and the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation, which set the standards for accessibility in Ontario.

We treat accessibility as ongoing, everyday work. This page describes the commitments we hold ourselves to, how to request accommodation, and how to give us feedback when we fall short.

Effective date: June 1, 2026.

The school works to the AODA Integrated Accessibility Standards across five areas:

• Customer service — making sure people with disabilities can use our admissions, enrollment, and ongoing services on equal terms.
• Information and communication — providing school materials in accessible formats on request, and building this website to the WCAG 2.0 Level AA standard.
• Employment — supporting accessibility throughout recruitment, hiring, and the employee experience.
• Transportation — Vaughan College does not operate school buses or transportation services; this standard applies only where we engage such services.
• Built environment — designing and maintaining the campus to current accessibility standards as we renovate and grow.

Our admissions and front-office staff are trained to communicate respectfully and effectively with people with disabilities, by phone, by email, and in person. Staff training covers the AODA Customer Service Standard and is refreshed when policies or legislation change.

A service animal is welcome to accompany the person it supports anywhere on campus the public is permitted to be, except where the law specifically prohibits the animal’s presence. In those rare cases, we work with the family to find another way to provide the same level of service.

A support person is welcome to accompany a person with a disability throughout campus. We do not charge admission for the support person at school events.

When a service that families rely on is temporarily disrupted — for example, an elevator out of service — we post a notice at the site of the disruption and offer the alternative.

Vaughan College provides school information and communications materials in accessible formats and with communication supports on request, in a timely manner and at no additional cost. This applies to enrollment information, course outlines, report cards, transcripts, and policy documents.

This website is built to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA. We design new pages for keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, sufficient colour contrast, and clear focus indicators. If you encounter content on this site that does not meet that standard, we would like to hear about it — see Feedback below.

The school makes applicants aware that accommodations are available throughout our recruitment process, and we work with successful candidates to put any needed accommodations in place before they begin.

We support existing employees through documented return-to-work plans and individual accommodation plans where required, and we take an employee’s accessibility needs into account when assigning responsibilities and managing performance.

The Vaughan College campus at 9121 Weston Road, Unit 3 is designed to be accessible to students, families, and visitors.

For current information about a particular space, or to arrange accommodation in advance of a campus visit or school event, please contact us using the details below.

Students who need accommodation for a disability — including learning differences and physical, sensory, or mental health needs — should contact the school’s guidance team. We work with families to put a written plan in place, in line with Ontario’s Special Education guidelines, so that teachers and support staff work from the same understanding of what the student needs.

Visitors and prospective families who need accommodation for a campus visit, an admissions interview, or a school event should let us know in advance by email at info@vaughancollege.ca or by phone at 905-265-9229. The more advance notice we have, the more we can do; we will also do what we can with less.

We welcome feedback from students, families, staff, and visitors on how we are doing on accessibility. Feedback may be given by phone, by email, in writing, or in person, and may be submitted anonymously.

We respond to accessibility feedback within thirty days, either with the school’s view on the matter or an explanation of how we are looking into it. Where feedback identifies a barrier, we take it into account in our ongoing accessibility work.

Questions about this statement, accommodation requests, and accessibility feedback should be directed to: