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Trace Research & Development Center
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C. Availability of Captioning and Audio Description
In 1997, movie studios began to substantially increase the number of movies produced with captioning in response to the Federal Communications Commission's publication of regulations requiring...
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B.
For example, if the Federal Communications Commission decided that its authority to regulate the rents that utility-pole owners charge for cable-television pole-attachments extended to attachments...
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"Video Remote Interpreting" (VRI) Services (Section-by-Section Analysis)
advocacy organizations and individuals unanimously requested that the Department use the term ‘‘video remote interpreting (VRI),'' instead of VIS, for consistency with Federal Communications Commission...
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Tri-County Center for Independent Living (TCIL) - Rolla, MO
Independent Living is having the opportunity to make decisions that affect your life - limited only in the same manner as a person without a disability....
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National Technical Assistance Center on Blindness and Visual Impairment
We welcome your suggestions for making this site a more useful learning community focused on topics related to the employment of persons who are blind or visually impaired....
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Disability is Natural - Books and Media
in the belief that our attitudes drive our actions, and changes in our attitudes and actions can help create a society where all children and adults with developmental disabilities have opportunities...
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Learning Disabilities Foundation of America
LDA’s mission is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities and to reduce the incidence of learning disabilities in future generations....
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Other OCR Resources
Dear Colleague Letter: Equal Access to Extracurricular Athletics for Students with Disabilities (Jan. 25, 2013), www.ed.gov/ocr/letters/colleague-201301-504.html. ...
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Falls and Injuries
So you have four times the risk of hip fracture if you have low vision by Medicare definition than you if you don’t – all else being equal....
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Alternate Scenarios
In other words, it was assumed that the number of ADA-covered facilities respectively compliant with these 20 requirements was equal to the percentage of the United States population (based...
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1. Summary of Results
depend not only on technologies that are currently available to achieve compliance, but also on emerging technologies that may provide more cost-effective ways in the future to ensure equal...
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Background
In contrast, older respondents who were nonambulatory reported that all of the configurations (including the preferred and alternative ADA configurations) were equally difficult....
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Alternate Scenarios
In other words, it was assumed that the number of ADA-covered facilities respectively compliant with these 20 requirements was equal to the percentage of the United States population (based...
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Substitute cells. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
planned), provided that each substitute cell is located within the same facility, is integrated with other cells to the maximum extent feasible, and has, at a minimum, physical access equal...
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Show us your #CrappyCurb
Curb Cuts make sure people with mobility disabilities can navigate the city safely and have equal access. How's your community doing?...
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Section 36.303(g)(2) General
These commenters reasoned that fairness and equality concerns justified adoption of Option 1 because, in their view, Option 2 could incentivize more movie theaters to delay their digital...
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Stages.
sources with which to quantify the benefits that accrue to students and other persons with disabilities who, as a result of direct access to stages, would be able to participate fully and equally...
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Section 36.406(f)(3)
that seat four or more wheelchair users and their companions have the potential to reduce the number of available wheelchair seating spaces below the level required, thus reducing the opportunities...
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Accessibility Stories by Vijay Gupta
But I see a lot of opportunity and I think it can be achieved. It will take a lot of experience, a lot of [work]. That’s one story I wanted to tell....
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Section 35.136 Service Animals (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Add in § 35.136(c) that if a public entity properly excludes a service animal, the public entity must give the individual with a disability the opportunity to participate in or benefit from...
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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) ADA Professional Training Certificate Program
Real-life scenarios are used throughout the course and the student will have the opportunity to meet several individuals with various disabilities and hear first-hand their experiences and...
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Service Animal Issues
apparent lack of problems in the real world of air travel, hundreds of comments expressed the fear that the Department was proposing new regulations that would unfairly limit the travel opportunities...
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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, Inc. (BCID) - Brooklyn, NY
We exist to to improve the quality of life of Brooklyn residents with disabilities through programs that empower them to gain greater control of their lives and achieve full and equal integration...
