The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to provide direct, equal access to their services for people with disabilities who use teletypewriters...
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Access for 9-1-1 and Telephone Emergency Services
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Building a Winning Record
In the process, crucial networks continued to develop. The DREDF-arranged San Francisco conference of 1980 laid the foundation for forming an alliance with the civil rights community....
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F105.1 General
Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, 1425 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC; at the Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 10424, Washington DC; or at the National...
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Tips for Communicating with Individuals Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
If you do not have a Text Telephone (TTY), dial 711 to reach the national telecommunications relay service, which facilitates the call between you and an individual who uses a TTY....
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A. Responsibilities of All State Agency Recipients
complying with all other provisions of the Guidelines relevant to them, may not require, approve of, or engage in any discrimination or denial of services on the basis of race, color, national...
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105.1 General
Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, 1425 New York Avenue, NW, Washington, DC; at the Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 10424, Washington DC; or at the National...
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3. Getting Access to Medical Equipment
In a national survey of people with disabilities or activity limitations, wheelchair users reported the following: 69% had difficulty using exam tables; 60% had difficulty...
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Additional Clauses for Specific Disabilities
National and statewide associations specific to various types of disabilities may be able to recommend clauses to include....
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F101 Purpose
subject to standards for design, construction, or alteration issued under the authority of the law authorizing such a grant or loan; or (4) Constructed under the authority of the National...
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202.5 Alterations to Qualified Historic Buildings and Facilities
Alterations to buildings or facilities that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places or are designated as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark or State Archeological...
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Congressional Findings of Discrimination
Congress declared that “the Nation’s proper goals regarding individuals with disabilities are to ensure equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency...
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A. Movie Basics, Captioning, and Audio Description Generally
physically delivered to movie theaters on high resolution DVDs or removable or external hard drives, or can be transmitted to movie theaters’ servers via Internet, fiber-optic, or satellite networks...
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Phase II: Energy and Commerce & Public Works and Transportation Committees
The National Association of the Deaf (NAD), Telecommunications for the Deaf, Inc., and Self-Help for the Hard of Hearing (SHHH) were active in demonstrating broad support for changes in...
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Conference Proceedings and Final Passage
He also listed many organizations that supported the amendment, chief among them the National Restaurant Association (NRA)....
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Why Accessibility Is Important
Recreation Opportunities on National Forests and Grasslands There are national forest and grasslands in all but six of the States and in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. 155...
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Automated Announcement Systems
See Final RA, Section 3.2 (summarizing results of DOT compliance reviews of transit agency announcement programs and Federal lawsuits raising ADA challenges to vehicle operator-based announcement...
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Standards: ADA Standard Section 1991
This of the ADA Standards covers the definition of the 1991 ADA Standards.
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11B-406.5.12 Detectable warnings
Access Board's Note to Reader: The Department of Transportation's ADA Standards require detectable warnings on curb ramps: [ADA Title II - Public Transportation] 406.8 Detectable...
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11B-406.5.12 Detectable warnings
Access Board's Note to Reader: The Department of Transportation's ADA Standards require detectable warnings on curb ramps: [ADA Title II - Public Transportation] 406.8 Detectable...
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Communicating with Customers
The ADA requires businesses to take steps necessary to communicate effectively with customers with vision, hearing, and speech disabilities....
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11B-505.10 Handrail extensions
[2010 ADA Standards] 3. In alterations, full extensions of handrails shall not be required where such extensions would be hazardous due to plan configuration....
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11B-217.2 Wheelchair accessible telephones
TELEPHONES 1 or more single units At least 50 percent of telephone units, but not less than 1 per floor, level, and exterior site [2010 ADA...
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11B-505.10 Handrail extensions
[2010 ADA Standards] 3. In alterations, full extensions of handrails shall not be required where such extensions would be hazardous due to plan configuration....
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11B-217.2 Wheelchair accessible telephones
TELEPHONES 1 or more single units At least 50 percent of telephone units, but not less than 1 per floor, level, and exterior site [2010 ADA...