Canada

Private and non-profit organizations with 50 or more employees in Ontario, plus designated public sector organizations. Their public websites and web content must meet WCAG 2.0 Level AA, with exceptions for live captions and pre-recorded audio descriptions.

A corporation can be fined up to $100,000 for each day an offence continues, and individuals, including directors and officers, up to $50,000 a day. Ontario also uses administrative monetary penalties.

SOR/2025-255, registered on 5 December 2025, sets CAN/ASC-EN 301 549 as the ICT standard. Federal public sector web pages must comply from 5 December 2027. Federally regulated private organizations with 100+ employees follow from 5 December 2028, and those with 500+ also for apps and documents. Businesses with 99 or fewer employees are exempt.

Manitoba's Accessible Information and Communication Standard requires WCAG 2.1 AA and has applied to private businesses and non-profits since 1 May 2025. British Columbia and Nova Scotia are still developing their standards.

Yes, if you provide covered services such as e-commerce to consumers in the EU. Since 28 June 2025 those services must be accessible, and the scope is not limited by where the company is based.