{"id":3446,"date":"2024-04-12T22:55:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T05:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/?p=3446"},"modified":"2024-04-12T23:10:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T06:10:27","slug":"accessibility-policy-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/accessibility-policy-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"ACCESSIBILITY POLICY &amp; PLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"section-eb773570-7a3c-4afc-b115-ebef4218f27f\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-about-block gutentor-section gutentor-about about-template4 has-color-bg has-custom-bg wow animated slideInDown text-left\" data-wow-animation=\"slideInDown\" data-wow-iteration=\"1\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"gutentor-grid-item-wrap\"><div class=\"gutentor-single-item\"><div class=\"grid-row\"><div class=\"grid-md-6 about-grid\"><div class=\"gutentor-single-item-content\"><div class=\"gutentor-about-content\"><h3 class=\"gutentor-single-item-title\">ACCESSIBILITY POLICY &amp; PLAN <\/h3><p class=\"gutentor-single-item-desc\">Revision: <strong>September 1, 2023<\/strong> <br><br><strong>Policy statement<\/strong><br>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.bc.ca\/gov\/content\/governments\/about-the-bc-government\/accessibility\/legislation\/summary\">Accessibility Act<\/a> all schools must have an Accessibility Committee, to develop an Accessibility Plan, and a method to receive feedback.<br><br><strong>Rationale or purpose of policy<\/strong><br>The purpose of this policy is to remove barriers and increase inclusion and independence for everyone. For the purposed of this Act, a barrier is anything that hinders the full and equal participation in society of a person with an impairment. An impairment can include physical, sensory, mental, intellectual, or cognitive impairment. Accessibility means that all people can take part in their communities through work, play and other daily activities.<br><\/p><a class=\"gutentor-button gutentor-single-item-button gutentor-icon-before\" href=\"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ACCESSIBILITY-POLICY-PLAN.pdf\"><i class=\"gutentor-button-icon fas fa-book\"><\/i><span>Read More<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"grid-md-6 about-grid\"><div class=\"gutentor-single-item-image-box\"><a class=\"gutentor-image-box-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/SCHOOL-POLICIES-COMMUNICABLE-DISEASES1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><div class=\"gutentor-image-thumb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"normal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/education-is-key.png\" alt=\"\" height=\"540\" width=\"960\" \/><\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The purpose of this policy is to remove barriers and increase inclusion and independence for everyone. For the purposed of this Act, a barrier is anything that hinders the full and equal participation in society of a person with an impairment. An impairment can include physical, sensory, mental, intellectual, or cognitive impairment. Accessibility means that all people can take part in their communities through work, play and other daily activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-vancouver","category-parent-area"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.franklinschool.ca\/hs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}