The Invisible Disabilities Association (IDA) encourages, educates and connects people and organizations touched by illness, pain and disability around the globe. Formerly known as...
Motor Impairments: To evacuate individuals with motor impairments, employers can purchase evacuation devices....
Cognitive/Psychiatric Impairments: Employers should consider ways of communicating with people who have cognitive impairments....
Sensory Impairments: Employers should install lighted fire strobes and other visual or vibrating alerting devices to supplement audible alarms....
Conversely, many comments from persons with vision impairments supported the proposed specifications or urged the Board to make them more stringent. Response....
III−2.3000 Drug addiction as an impairment. Drug addiction is an impairment under the ADA....
II−2.3000 Drug addiction as an impairment. Drug addiction is an impairment under the ADA....
However, many pedestrians with visual impairments who sometimes have trouble seeing the transition between curb ramp and street have usable vision....
, even though she did not actually have bipolar disorder....
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT HEARING IMPAIRMENTS In 2011, a study led by researchers from Johns Hopkins reported that nearly 20% of Americans 12 and older have hearing loss so severe that...
Issues Regarding Specific Disabilities...
may involve individuals who use idiosyncratic non-standard signs or gestures such as those commonly referred to as 'home signs' which are unique to a family, use a foreign sign language, have...
Section 405.9.2 covers the current ADA Standards for a curb or barrier that is provided as edge protection at a ramp.
Ran into an interesting issue in a claim by a visually impaired plaintiff The claim was that the push button keypad was not accessible for a visually impaired person - see attached photo...
This information must be transmitted to passengers who have identified themselves as having hearing or vision impairment no later than the time that it is transmitted to the other passengers...
The regulations include a clear statement that the definition of an impairment as transitory, that is, “lasting or expected to last for six months or less,” only applies to the “regarded...
Indoor navigation enables users to find their way around large meeting spaces and to always take shortest routes. Using an iPhone or iPad with voice activation, LowViz Guide...
Individuals with Hearing Impairments or Deafness Individuals with limited hearing rely extensively on visual cues for safe and independent mobility....