The Board intends, through this provision, to reinforce the fundamental principle that agencies have an affirmative, continuing obligation under Section 508 to maintain the accessibility...
Search Results "Barrier Removal Obligation"
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E203.2 Agency Business Needs (Section-by-Section Analysis)
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Who Decides Which Aid or Service Is Needed?
If the choice expressed by the person with a disability would result in an undue burden or a fundamental alteration, the public entity still has an obligation to provide an alternative aid...
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Recitals
the time of settlement; (iv) the issue is an important one for recipients of federal financial assistance and persons with mobility disabilities to understand their respective rights and obligations...
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F) Library Services
In many cases, however, providing basic physical accessibility to the library facility is preferred in meeting the obligation to provide services in the most integrated setting appropriate...
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Reasonable Modification of Policies
The Department notes that its September 2005 guidance concerning origin-to-destination service remains the Department's interpretation of the obligations of ADA complementary paratransit...
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§ 36.101 Purpose and broad coverage
The primary object of attention in cases brought under the ADA should be whether entities covered under the ADA have complied with their obligations and whether discrimination has occurred...
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Effect of ADA Amendments Act on Academic Requirements in Postsecondary Education
Congress noted that the reference to academic requirements in postsecondary education was included ‘‘solely to provide assurances that the bill does not alter current law with regard to the obligations...
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District of Columbia Department on Disability Services (DDS): Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) Program
Vocational rehabilitation services can reduce or remove barriers to employment....
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40. Must an employer ask whether a reasonable accommodation is needed when an employee has not asked for one?
If the individual with a disability states that s/he does not need a reasonable accommodation, the employer will have fulfilled its obligation....
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31. Academic adjustments
This requirement, like its predecessor in the proposed regulation, does not obligate an institution to waive course or other academic requirements....
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16. Reasonable accommodation
The reasonable accommodation standard in §104.12 is similar to the obligation imposed upon Federal contractors in the regulation implementing section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973...
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Reasonable Modification of Policies and Procedures
At a hot lunch program for elderly town residents, staff are not obliged to feed a woman with a disability who needs assistance in eating, if it does not provide this service for others....
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Sections 35.108(d)(1)(ii) and 36.105(d)(1)(ii)—Primary Object of ADA Cases
One of the purposes of the Act was to convey that ‘‘the primary object of attention in cases brought under the ADA should be whether entities covered under the ADA have complied with the obligations...
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B. Title III's Implementing Regulation
Title III's implementing regulation reiterates the statute's requirements and spells out in detail a public accommodation's obligation to furnish auxiliary aids and services to individuals...
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a) "Neighborhood" Access Theory
The mere fact that a park is named after the area in which it is located does not establish that the park has "neighborhood meaning" or that the City is obligated to ensure that each and...
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OVERVIEW
Many newer buildings are constructed as “accessible” or “barrier free” to allow people with disabilities ready access....
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a) Public Right-of-Way
with the City's right-of-way in its entirety, coupled with her vague testimony, is insufficient to demonstrate that she was denied meaningful access to the City's right-of-way or that the barriers...
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4.2 Existing Facilities.
(It should be noted that "structural changes" include all physical changes to a facility; the term does not refer only to changes to structural features, such as removal of or alteration...
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Dispersion Requirements
In addition, the Board removed a criterion for dispersion based on a comparable choice in admission prices....
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708 Two-Way Communication Systems
The Board has removed this exception in the final rule, consistent with the new ANSI A117.1 standard....
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7. Q: What procedures should law enforcement officers follow to arrest and transport a person who uses a wheelchair?
Example: An individual with a disability is removed from his wheelchair and placed on a bench in a paddy wagon. He is precariously strapped to the bench with his own belt....
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Alterations To An Area Containing A Primary Function
(From the Preamble to Title III regulations section related to 36.402): Normal maintenance, re-roofing painting or wallpapering, asbestos removal, or changes to mechanical and electrical...
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Technical Infeasibility
The term is defined as “something that has little likelihood of being accomplished because existing structural conditions would require removing or altering a load-bearing member that is...
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Suggestion by Eldon Tipping
Slopes were to be measured with a Dipstick Floor Profiler (Face Construction Technologies) within 16 hours after completion of final finishing, and where applicable, before removal of any...
