2013 California Standards for Accessible Design Pocket Guide

Black Text

Used for text taken from CBC.

Black Text, Italicized

Used by CBC to identify departures from IBC and/or 2010 ADAS.

Black Text, Underlined

Used at proposed CBC revisions by DSA-AC and/or HCD to identify text that has been added to the original wording.

Green Text

Used for text taken from ADA, prefaced by [2010 ADAS], [ADA Title II], [ADA Title III], [ADA Titles II & III] or [1991 ADAAG] to narrow the source.

Dark Red Text

Used for Editor's insertions or comments.  Where these insertions occur within text taken from CBC or ADA, bookends are included, in this format:  _|Editor's Insertion|_.

Used for explanatory or cautionary ETA Editor's Notes.  When text taken from CBC or ADA is included in these boxes, the aforementioned text color/style conventions are used.

Blue Text, Underlined

Used for hyperlinks.  In the Table of Contents and Index of Figures, the underlines are omitted, for improved readability.

Used for DSA Advisories.

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Used at CBC Figures to signify those that illustrate requirements more stringent than 2010 ADAS.

Used for ADA Advisories, either from the U.S. Access Board or the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

[S.H. Section Number]

Used for Safe Harbor hyperlinks.