Accessibility Law World Map
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Not for legal advice. Study aide for CPACC exam
An interactive map showing which accessibility instruments apply in which jurisdiction, seeded from Domain III of the CPACC Content Outline. Select a country on the map or a row in the table to see what’s recorded against it. A jurisdiction also inherits everything recorded against its parent (Ontario through Canada, French Guiana through France).
An unmarked country means the dataset has no entry for it, not that no accessibility law exists there.
Data
data.json is the only file meant to be edited routinely: jurisdictions, instruments, and a verifiedOn date marking when the tool last checked the claim against its source, never when the law itself was enacted. Each entry is tagged cpacc-outline (transcribed, unchecked) or primary (checked against the statute or ratification record, with a required source URL).
The basemap (geometry.json) is generated once from Natural Earth 1:110m data via world-atlas, public domain, and never hand-edited.
Notes
There’s no build step and no validation on deploy, so a malformed data.json goes straight to the public URL. A few deliberate omissions from the CPACC seed list: the US signed but never ratified the CRPD, so it isn’t recorded as applying; the UK’s EU Charter of Fundamental Rights entry doesn’t survive Brexit; and Ontario’s dataset entry is the 2001 Ontarians with Disabilities Act, not the better-known 2005 AODA.
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