Looks at the definitions of "an individual with a disability" and a "qualified individual with a disability," drawing upon guidance set out in EEOC's Title I regulation and interpretive...
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How to Use This Manual
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100% Healed Policies
Example 13: A clerk has been out on medical leave for 16 weeks for surgery to address a disability....
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§35.160 General
for equal participation and opportunity to benefit from any governmental service, program, or activity, such as reviewing public documents, examining demonstrative evidence, and filling out...
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M303.2.4 Equipment Clearances (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Therefore, in the final rule the Access Board has separated out the knee and toe clearance requirements into two provisions; breast platforms and other equipment....
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New Requirements for Assistive Listening Systems (ALS)
Add the number of additional receivers to the minimum number required: 55+3= 58 receivers Calculate the number of hearing-aid compatible receivers. (1 out...
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(C) NYCT’s interpretation of the ADA and DOT’s implementing regulations is too narrow.
The relevant ADAAG requirement cited by NYCT, as set forth in § 206.2.3.1 of Appendix B to 36 CFR Part 1191, merely lays out one situation in which a public entity must provide an accessible...
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Benefits
By requiring a means to control at least one source of lighting in bedrooms from the bed, individuals with mobility disabilities will be able to safely transfer in and out of bed....
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The Market of Travelers Who Benefit from Accessibility
of the total U.S. discretionary income is controlled by those 50 years and older. (7) The Deloitte Research study, "Wealth With Wisdom: Serving the Needs of Aging Consumers," points out...
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7.4 Legal and Regulatory Considerations
In addition, later DOJ regulations may lay out limited circumstances where “equivalent facilitation” is permissible under the Americans with Disabilities Act....
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4.1.3 Adjustable Height Chairs with and without Footplates
Some knee break chairs available in the market today have a total length of around 60”; with the addition of a flip-up or slide out footrest/leg rest extension, this total length increases...
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A. Statutory and rulemaking history
Section 204 (a) of title II and section 306(b) of title III direct the Attorney General to promulgate regulations to carry out the provisions of titles II and III, other than certain provisions...
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5.1.1 Transfer Surface Height Adjustability Recommendation for M301 and M302
heights from underneath the buttocks at the center of the occupied seats, a spot likely to be lower than the front of the seat where a person transfers.FF Some Committee members pointed out...
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42. May an employer tell other employees that an individual is receiving a reasonable accommodation when employees ask questions about a coworker with a disability?
The employer also may find it helpful to point out that many of the workplace issues encountered by employees are personal, and that, in these circumstances, it is the employer's policy...
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Issue 15: How can the potential conflict between the goals of zero net energy and accessibility for low vision persons be resolved?
going to be the wave of the future is finding ways of creating less efficient facilities by decentralizing, in order to reduce the energy consumption in a hospital, for example, is to move out...
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The Revised Guidelines (2004 ADAAG)
Part I of the 2004 ADAAG provides scoping requirements for facilities subject to the ADA; scoping is a term used in the 2004 ADAAG to describe requirements (set out in Parts I and II) that...
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The Revised Guidelines (2004 ADAAG)
Part I of the 2004 ADAAG provides so-called "scoping" requirements for facilities subject to the ADA; "scoping" is a term used in the 2004 ADAAG to describe requirements (set out in Parts...
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A) Accessible Parking
Accessible parking spaces have a number of features that make it possible for people with disabilities to get into or out of a vehicle....
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§35.160 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
for equal participation and opportunity to benefit from any governmental service, program, or activity, such as reviewing public documents, examining demonstrative evidence, and filling out...
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3. b. Government Assistance
Reaching Out to Customers with Disabilities An online ADA course for businesses A 10-lesson course divided it into individual lesson modules....
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3.1.4. Digital vs. Analog Projection Systems
July 2015, 38,688 of the 39,338 indoor auditoriums had converted to digital projection systems. (38,688 / 39,338 = 98.3 percent) 17 All analog auditoriums are assumed to be operated out...
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Website Accessibility Conformance for edX
Ensure that any changes or additions to www.edx.org , its mobile applications, or the LMS do not cause any of them to fall out of conformance with, at minimum, WCAG 2.0 AA; Ensure...
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The Disability Community in 1988
or any few, but to the many thousands of people who make up the disability rights movement—people who have worked for years organizing and attending protests, licking envelopes, sending out...
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Must Gluten-free Be Free? What You Should Know About Celiac Disease and the ADA
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness cites a statistic that one out of every 133 Americans has celiac disease....
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Site Selection
Private businesses must remove structural barriers where it is “readily achievable” to do so, meaning where it is “easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without much difficulty...