Training Requirements

All organizations in Manitoba are required to provide training on the Accessible Information and Communication Standard to employees, agents and volunteers with any of the following duties:

• persons who communicate directly with the public or another Manitoba organization on behalf of the organization
• persons who maintain or develop the organization’s web content
• persons who purchase or procure information technology or communication tools
• persons who develop or implement the organization’s measures, policies and practices on accessible communication
• persons who are educators within an educational institution

Training content must include:

• how to identify, prevent and remove barriers to accessible communication
• how to provide information through a communication support or an accessible format
• a review of The Human Rights Code, The Accessibility for Manitobans Act and this standard

An organization must provide training to a person as soon as reasonably possible after that person is assigned the applicable duties. Also, ongoing training needs to be provided whenever an organization updates or changes its accessible communication policies, measures or practices.