The Department also anticipates that small entities will incur minimal costs for accessibility consultants to ensure compliance with the new requirements for New Construction and Alterations...
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2010 ADA Definition
Alteration: A change to a building or facility that affects or could affect the usability of the building or facility or portion thereof. Alterations include, but are not limited to, remodeling, renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, historic restoration, resurfacing of circulation paths or vehicular ways, changes or rearrangement of the structural parts or elements, and changes or rearrangement in the plan configuration of walls and full-height partitions. Normal maintenance, reroofing, painting or wallpapering, or changes to mechanical and electrical systems are not alterations unless they affect the usability of the building or facility.
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Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
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Appendix 2: Survey Forms: Curb Ramps
Curb Ramps Construction/Alteration Date (circle one): Before 1/26/92 After 1/26/92 Facility Name/Address: Date: Location: Surveyors...
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Section 4.1.3, Accessible Buildings: New Construction (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Areas of refuge are not required in alterations....
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SERVICE ANIMALS
The animal’s presence would result in a fundamental alteration to the nature of a business or a state or local government’s program or activity....
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22. Must an employer allow an employee with a disability to work a modified or part-time schedule as a reasonable accommodation, absent undue hardship?
Yes.(63) A modified schedule may involve adjusting arrival or departure times, providing periodic breaks, altering when certain functions are performed, allowing an employee to use accrued...
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Case Study #1: Auxiliary aids and services under Title II are different from special education and related services under the IDEA.
Because the CART services would not result in a fundamental alteration or in undue financial and administrative burdens, Tommy will receive CART services as an auxiliary service under Title...
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Two-tiered definitional approach. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
disability advocacy group said that the Department's two-tiered approach strikes the proper balance between ensuring access for individuals with disabilities and addressing fundamental alteration...
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L. WEB-BASED SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
., content maintained exclusively for reference, research, or recordkeeping, which is not altered or updated after the date of archiving, and which is organized and stored in a dedicated...
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Section 4.1.3, Accessible Buildings: New Construction (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
Areas of refuge are not required in alterations....
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L. WEB-BASED SERVICES AND PROGRAMS
., content maintained exclusively for reference, research, or recordkeeping, which is not altered or updated after the date of archiving, and which is organized and stored in a dedicated...
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3. Service Animals
the ADA or the Rehabilitation Act, a person with a disability may be accompanied by a service animal within the facility unless the animal’s presence or behavior creates a fundamental alteration...
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Swimming pools. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The 2004 ADAAG includes specific technical and scoping requirements for new and altered swimming pools at sections 242 and 1009....
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"Other Power-Driven Mobility Device" and "Wheelchair" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
mobility devices by individuals with disabilities, unless the public accommodation can demonstrate that the use of the device is not reasonable or that its use will result in a fundamental alteration...
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A. SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
35.151, and the ADA Standards for Accessible Design ("Standards") or the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards ("UFAS"); to ensure that facilities for which construction or alteration...
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Summary of the project
surface measurement may not be appropriate; d) the effect of different tolerances for different walkway materials is a concern; e) accumulated tolerances must be addressed; f) repair, alterations...
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Examples of Major Life Activities, Other Than the Operations of a Major Bodily Function
in part, 226 F.3d 69 (2d Cir. 2000), then-Judge Sotomayor stated, ‘‘[I]n the modern era, where test taking begins in the first grade, and standardized tests are a regular and often life-altering...
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Miniature horses. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
dogs, covered entities may exclude this type of service animal if the presence of the miniature horse, because of its larger size and lower level of flexibility, results in a fundamental alteration...
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"Other Power-Driven Mobility Device" and "Wheelchair" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
power-driven mobility devices by individuals with disabilities, unless the public entity can demonstrate that the use of the device is not reasonable or that its use will result in a fundamental alteration...
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Section 36.406(e) Housing at a Place of Education
There are other differences between the two sets of standards, including requirements for accessible windows, alterations, kitchens, an accessible route throughout a unit, and clear floor...
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B. Public Comments Regarding the Effects of the Rule on Small Movie Theaters
Thus, they continue to be subject to the longstanding general ADA requirement to provide effective communication under § 36.303, unless doing so would be a fundamental alteration of the...
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5. Conforming Alternate Versions
conforming alternate versions only when making a particular public-facing Web page compliant with all WCAG 2.0 Level AA success criteria would constitute an undue burden or fundamentally alter...
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Section 36.406(f) Assembly Areas (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Although this provision on its face applies to new construction and alterations, these commenters were concerned that the rule could be interpreted to apply retroactively because of the...
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ADA Business BRIEF: Communicating with People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing in Hospital Settings
A hospital need not provide communication aids or services if doing so would fundamentally alter the nature of the goods or services offered or would result in an undue burden....
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7.2. Public Comments Regarding the Effects of the Rule on Small Movie Theaters
Thus, they continue to be subject to the longstanding general ADA requirement to provide effective communication under § 36.303, unless doing so would be a fundamental alteration of the...