Limiting use of these services can help potentially life-saving emergency calls get through to 9-1-1....
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During and After an Emergency
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2.3 Use a Universal Design Approach
Explain that making the changes you need would be helpful for many of their members. 5 Here are some points you can use: Removing barriers could increase their membership...
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Edge Protection [4.8.7]
Curbs, horizontal rails, or extended platforms can help prevent crutch-tips from slipping off the edge between rails....
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Carpet [4.5.3]
This helps keep carpet from curling which can pose a tripping hazard and make wheelchair traffic difficult. The trim must meet requirements for changes in level....
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Gurney Accessible Bathroom
Full length shower curtain with chain weights to help hold the water in....
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Emergency Planning
If the facility does not have evacuation elevators, does it have areas of refuge (fire-rated spaces where people who cannot use stairs can go to register a call for help and wait for responders...
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Examples of meeting your “access to goods and services” obligation when physical barrier removal is not readily achievable
In this case, staff should be available for customers who need help reaching merchandise. For example, staff can bring merchandise to a wheelchair user....
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Furnishings and Equipment
It is also helpful to consider relevant requirements in the standards when specifying or acquiring moveable furnishings, such as tables, systems furniture, and vending machines to ensure...
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Paragraph (b) (Advisory Guidance)
For example, they could plug in a headphone which makes the audio louder and helps shut out background noise; they might feed the signal through an amplifier to make it louder, or through...
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Wagner Instruments Mark-10 M4 Digital Force Gauge
Made in America, the M4 Digital Force Gauge is similar to the full featured Mark-10 M5 Digital Force Gauge, but with selected features required for basic hand-held force measurement or limited...
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B. Accessibility
The checklist includes two assessment tools to ensure that emergency shelters provide access to all: (1) a preliminary checklist that will help emergency managers and shelter operators decide...
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Tips for Interacting with People with Disabilities
Below are a few tips to help you communicate effectively. When speaking with a person with a disability, talk directly to the person, not his or her companion....
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Conclusion
OCR notes that representatives from schools and districts around the country are adopting a wide range of possible approaches to help facilitate this outcome....
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Evaluate Your Need to Identify as Someone Who Requires Assistance During an Evacuation
(Bondi 2001) (Juillet 1993) Two men who helped a wheelchair user transfer to an evacuation chair hanging in the stairwell of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and transported...
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Study Limitations
They mentioned that the taller ones were more helpful for going to lower elevations and the lower ones for transferring higher....
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F232.3 Special Holding Cells and Special Housing Cells
EXCEPTION: Alterations to cells shall not be required to comply except to the extent determined by the appropriate Federal agency having authority under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act...
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12206(a)(2) Publication of plan
publish the plan referred to in paragraph (1) for public comment in accordance with subchapter II of chapter 5 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the Administrative Procedure Act...
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Access To Medical Care For Individuals With Mobility Disabilities
Americans with Disabilities Act Access To Medical Care For Individuals With Mobility Disabilities U.S....
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Section 36.405 Alterations: Historic Preservation
Department provided guidance on making alterations to buildings or facilities that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under the National Historic Preservation Act...
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V. Other Issues
accommodations “maintain in operable working condition those features of facilities and equipment that are required to be readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities by the Act...
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I. Introduction
officers, sheriff's deputies, and other law enforcement personnel have always interacted with persons with disabilities and, for many officers and deputies, the Americans with Disabilities Act...
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§27.129(e) Content of orders.
The decision may contain such terms, conditions, and other provisions as are consistent with and will effectuate the purposes of the Act and this part, including provisions designed to assure...
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H.8. - Do private sector web sites that provide a subscription service to Federal agencies need to conform to 508 provisions?
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act does not place requirements on vendors....
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Environmental Impact
Significant Impact with respect to the environment has been made in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 50, which implement section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act...
