Whether it is a blind person learning to pour coffee or a person in a wheelchair trying to reach high cupboards, far too often, solutions go unexplored because we assume they don't exist...
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Question: Alteration vs. Maintenance for Stairs in Pre-ADA Building
However, some of the existing wooden handrails are rotted and need to be replaced....
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Side reach (Section-by-Section Analysis)
One governmental entity, while fully supporting the 48-inch side-reach requirement, encouraged the Department to adopt an exception to the lower reach range for existing facilities similar...
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ADA Safe Harbor Provisions
The 2010 ADA regulations include a new concept called "safe harbor" that allows existing elements in pre-3/15/2012 facilities that fully complied with the 1991 ADA Standards to remain in...
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III. DISCUSSION
It recognizes that “discrimination against individuals with disabilities persists in . . . transportation” through the “failure to make modifications to existing facilities[.]” 42 U.S.C....
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Information That May Be Requested in Post-Offer Examinations or Inquiries
For example, the employer may require a full physical examination....
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Structural Impracticability (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
deviate from accessibility requirements only where unique characteristics of terrain prevent the incorporation of accessibility features and where providing accessibility would destroy the physical...
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4. Drug addicts and alcoholics
That opinion concludes that drug addiction and alcoholism are “physical or mental impairments” within the meaning of section 7(6) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and that...
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Appendix 4 – References
A117.1-1980, Specifications for making buildings and facilities accessible to and usable by physically handicapped people. New York: ANSI. Australian Standard. (2001)....
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Structural Impracticability (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
deviate from accessibility requirements only where unique characteristics of terrain prevent the incorporation of accessibility features and where providing accessibility would destroy the physical...
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III. DISCUSSION
Under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, there is no undue burden defense available to recipients of federal financial assistance for failure to make their facilities that were in existence...
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Accessible Boat Slips
The 2010 Standards do not require the dispersion of the physical location of accessible boat slips....
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Section 1630.2(j)(1)(ii) Significant or Severe Restriction Not Required; Nonetheless, Not Every Impairment Is Substantially Limiting
See 2008 Senate Statement of Managers at 4 (“We reaffirm that not every individual with a physical or mental impairment is covered by the first prong of the definition of disability in the...
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The invisibility of people with disabilities
In addition to people with disabilities being a protected class under civil rights laws, a larger group actually benefits from physical, equipment, communication, service and program access...
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BACKGROUND
Epilepsy is a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, including neurological functions during a seizure. ...
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k) Self-Evaluation/Transition Plan
Regulations promulgated to implement Section 11135 insofar as discrimination based on physical or mental disabilities is concerned, state that a transition and self-evaluation plan "should...
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For People with Disabilities, Which Circulation Paths Are Usable, Available, and Closest?
Special Note 6 It may be practical to physically take new employees who are blind or have low vision to and through the usable circulation paths and to all locations of directional signage...
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4.1.2 Surface Design of Examination Tables and Chairs
Notes Z Seated height became the de facto height measurement method because this height is most relevant to clinicians as they conduct physical examinations of patients. ...
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"Service Animal" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
are deaf or hard of hearing; Add the following to the list of work and task examples: Assisting an individual during a seizure, retrieving medicine or the telephone, providing physical...