The ADA requires that newly constructed and altered state and local government facilities, places of public accommodation, and commercial facilities be readily accessible to, and usable...
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Introduction
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Expanding Your Market: Accessibility Benefits Older Adult Customers
Census Bureau, “Interim Projections of the Population by Selected Age Groups for the United States and States: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2030,” 21 April 2005, www.census.gov/population/projections...
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PREFACE
Other nations may provide greater levels of support services and assistive technology, but the United States ensures equal rights within a constitutional tradition....
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Introduction
The ADA requires that newly constructed and altered state and local government facilities, places of public accommodation, and commercial facilities be readily accessible to, and usable...
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E. Increasing Numbers of Individuals with Hearing and Vision Impairments
An October 21, 2008 Department of Health and Human Services´ Progress Review on Vision and Hearing in the United States noted that Richard Klein, Chief of the NCHS Health Promotion Statistics...
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Sub-Committee Summary of Scope for Recommendations
In 1994-95, 0.21% of elderly (65+) adults used scooters (64,000 people), according to our analysis of the NHIS-D published in 2000 in "Mobility Device Use in the United States."...
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b. Summary of Objectives of, and Legal Basis for, the Proposed Regulation
The proposed rule states that a movie theater owner or operator is required to exhibit movies with closed captioning and audio description for all screenings so long as the movie has been...
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Introduction
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a broad civil rights law guaranteeing equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in employment, public accommodations, transportation, State...
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Rulemaking History
The Department received comments from individuals from all fifty States and the District of Columbia....
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Relationship to Other Laws
This part does not invalidate or limit the remedies, rights, and procedures of any other Federal, State, or local laws (including State common law) that provide greater or equal protection...
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Web site accessibility. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
See Accessibility of State and Local Government Websites to People with Disabilities (June 2003), available at www.ada.gov/websites2.htm....
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BACKGROUND AND JURISDICTION
The Supervisor operates services, programs, and activities within the meaning of Title II, including maintaining and operating a voting system and voting program for federal, state, and...
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Sections 35.108(d)(1)(viii) and 36.105(d)(1)(viii)—Determination Made Without Regard to the Ameliorative Effects of Mitigating Measures
These provisions stated that the ameliorative effects of mitigating measures should not be considered when determining whether an impairment substantially limits a major life activity....
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Section 35.151(k) Detention and correctional facilities (Section-by-Section Analysis)
A Bureau of Justice Statistics study of State and Federal sentenced inmates (those sentenced to more than one year) shows the total estimated count of State and Federal prisoners aged 55...
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Section 35.151(e) Social service center establishments
Many of the commenters supported applying the residential facilities requirements to social service center establishments, stating that even though the residential facilities requirements...
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Individual Captioning Devices (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Proposed § 36.303(g)(2)(iii)(A) states, “[a] public accommodation that owns, leases, or leases to, or operates a movie theater shall provide individual captioning devices in accordance with...
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Section 35.151(e) Social service center establishments (Section-by-Section Analysis)
One commenter also stated that ‘‘it makes sense to treat social service center establishments like residential facilities because this is how these establishments function in practice.''...
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Adaptive Engineering Inc. Mobilift TX Wheelchair Lift for Rail Access
Disabled Passenger Access Over 700 units are in use at major railroads (national, state, and local) as well as at most of the tourist and historical railroads and museums across North...
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AccessRec PathMat Temporary ADA Beach Access Mat
Counties, Cities, Towns, National & State Parks, other government and non-profit organizations officials, as well as any individual willing to increase accessibility to their beaches...
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DOT Response to Comments
As stated in the NPRM, DOT recognizes that not all requests by individuals with disabilities for modifications of transportation provider policies are, in fact, reasonable....
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Section 36.303(g)(9) Operational Requirements
A number of commenters stated that on numerous occasions when they attempted to go to a movie advertised as having captioning or audio description, there was no staff available who knew...
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Section 36.303(g)(7) Compliance Date for Providing Captioning and Audio Description
Industry commenters stated that movie theaters already experience considerable delays between order date and delivery date and that, with increased demand and a limited supply, the prices...
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TTY Use
We stated our belief that the cost to carriers of installing queuing features on their TTY lines would not be high. We solicited comments on this proposal....
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Wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices.
EPAMDs have been the subject of debate among users, pedestrians, disability advocates, state and local governments, businesses, and bicyclists. ...
