The clear floor or ground space required at elevator call buttons must remain free of obstructions including ashtrays, plants, and other decorative elements that prevent wheelchair users...
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2010 ADA Definition
Wheelchair: Wheelchair means a manually-operated or power-driven device designed primarily for use by an individual with a mobility disability for the main purpose of indoor or of both indoor and outdoor locomotion. This definition does not apply to Federal wilderness areas; wheelchairs in such areas are defined in section 508(c)(2) of the ADA, 42 U.S.C. 12207(c)(2).
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11B-407.2.1.3 Clear floor or ground space
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11B-408.1 General
DSA regulates the usability of elevators and platform (wheelchair) lifts for persons with disabilities....
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Dispersion
This change was not adopted into the IBC, in part due to consideration of persons using wheelchairs who may need accessible communication features....
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E. Community Evacuation and Transportation
., vehicles equipped with wheelchair lifts) available to help evacuate people with disabilities....
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Turnstiles and Security Gates at Entrances
Standard narrow turnstiles are not usable by wheelchair users and by most people who walk with crutches, walkers, or canes....
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Number of Accessible Telephones
The comments requested clarification as to whether the removal of an inaccessible pay telephone would be an alteration that would trigger a requirement to lower an adjacent wheelchair accessible...
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Conclusions
Increasing the minimum width is recommended if accommodating individuals that are morbidly obese and/or use bariatric wheelchairs is also a priority....
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Key Study findings:
majority of participants (e.g. the 5th percentile or approximately 95% of the study sample) could transfer independently to a platform at a height that was within one inch of the mean wheelchair...
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Defining Disability Broadly
Disability is not limited to wheelchair users and people who are blind or deaf....
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Attitudes
For example: Individual with disability vs. crippled Wheelchair user vs. wheelchair bound Person with multiple sclerosis vs....
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Workshops
Participants included researchers, standards developers, experts in accessible design and wheelchair designers....
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DETR
people were photographed, 198 participants’ data were omitted due to camera failure, inability to take accurate dimensions from the photographs, or because the participants had rental wheelchairs...
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Accessible Routes - Interior and Exterior
., hallways and corridors) throughout the lodging facility, are not usable by persons who use wheelchairs or other mobility aids, or who are unable to climb steps or stairs....
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Accessibility Stories by Vijay Gupta
But at 10:00, I see a lot of noise in the hallways, riding around in the wheelchairs. I see nothing wrong with them. Everything looked really very well....
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Adjustable height protocol
The woman was 51 years old and had a an incomplete spinal cord injury at level L4, weighted 170 lbs, was 64” tall, and had been using a manual wheelchair for one year....
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Sweep Width
15 1.1 0.4 1.5 1.8 Pedestrian 63 1.0 0.5 1.3 1.7 Power scooter 1 0.7 NA 0.7 0.7 Power wheelchair...
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Appendix 4 – References
An anthropometric study of manual and powered wheelchair users. International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 33(3); 191 - 204. Rapoport, A. and Watson, N. (1972)....
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4. Assess During the Planning, Installation and Maintenance Phases
The lab test uses a 7 percent ramp as a baseline for the wheelchair rider....
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EXPERIENCES OF THE NAMED PLAINTIFFS
Named Plaintiff Conrad Reynoldson has muscular dystrophy and uses an electric wheelchair for mobility....
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Spaces and Elements: ADA Standard Section 206.2.4
Section 206.2.4 covers the scoping requirements in the most current ADA Standards for accessible routes connecting spaces and elements within a building.
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Public Rights-of-Way: ADA Standard Section 1.
“The Board is developing new guidelines for public rights-of-way that will address various issues, including access for blind pedestrians at street crossings, wheelchair access to on-street...
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F220.1 General
Accessible ATMs, including those with speech and those that are within reach of people who use wheelchairs, must provide all the functions provided to customers at that location at all times...
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106 Definitions
scoping or technical requirements: "accessible route," "area of refuge," "automatic door," "destination-oriented elevator," "ground floor," "occupiable," "power-assisted door," "sign," and "wheelchair...
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Shooting Facilities
Fixed firing positions must have a 60-inch diameter space with slopes not steeper than 1:48 so a wheelchair user can turn around and have a level place from which to shoot....