AODA Door Compliance Checker

A quick screen for barrier-free entrances

Ontario's accessibility rules and the Ontario Building Code both shape how a public entrance should work. Many older commercial doors still depend on a heavy manual swing, which is a real barrier for customers with mobility devices, strollers or limited strength. This checker helps you screen an entrance in about a minute and see which items are worth reviewing before an accessibility audit or a renovation.

Select the door type, the occupancy and whether the entrance is exterior. Then answer two practical questions: are push-button actuators present on both sides, and has the opening force been tested in the last 12 months. The tool counts open checklist items and gives a review readiness score, with plain-language notes on what to check.

What the checklist looks at

The first item is the operator. A public-serving or institutional entrance with a manual swing door is the most common gap, and an AODA barrier-free automatic operator is usually the fix. The second is actuators. If a door has an operator, push buttons should be on both sides, outside the door swing, at an accessible height and with a clear approach.

The third is opening force. A door that is hard to open fails the people it is meant to serve, and the limits differ for exterior and interior doors, so it should be measured rather than guessed. The last is the exterior environment: threshold height, weatherstripping and winter hold-open settings matter in Toronto, where ice, wind and stack pressure can make a good door perform badly in January.

What this tool is not

This is guidance, not a legal compliance opinion. Requirements depend on your building, its construction date, the applicable code edition and the work being done, and your building official or an accessibility consultant makes the final call. A high readiness score means fewer obvious items are open, not that the entrance is certified.

Where the checker flags an operator or actuator gap, our team can scope it. We install AODA door operators, automatic swing and sliding systems, and the actuators and controls that go with them, and we are trained on NFPA 80 so fire-rated openings keep their labels.

Next steps after the checklist

Use the list to brief your property manager, then book a free site measure. We test the opening force, check clearances and send a written CAD spec within 2 business days, with a price range before any part is ordered. If the entrance is also fire-rated, we plan the operator so the rating and the barrier-free function work together.

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