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Evaluating the Accessibility of a Meeting Site
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Updates and Other Pocket Guides
We are currently finishing additional Pocket Guide versions covering selected state access standards. ...
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Ground Surfaces
Section 1008.2.6 of the 2010 Standards provides technical requirements for accessible ground surfaces for play areas on accessible routes, clear floor or ground spaces, and turning spaces...
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G.5.ii. - How is the "back office" exception applied?
If both conditions are met, the product does not have to meet the standards....
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407.3.2 Alphabetic Keys (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The requirement for tactilely discernible home row keys derives from existing 508 Standards § 1194.23(k)(1), but would be a new requirement for the 508 Standards and 255 Guidelines....
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Literature Cited
ASTM F1292 Standard Specification for Impact Attenuation of Surface Systems Under and Around Playground Equipment, ASTM, West Conshohocken,PA 19428 American Society for Testing and Materials...
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16(a)(ii)
(ii) The hotel’s inventory of accessible rooms required under ADA Standards § 9.1.2 ( i.e., rooms with features for individuals with mobility disabilities and hearing impairments) complies...
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Is compliance required for parking spaces designed specifically for recreational vehicles such as motor homes and camping or boating trailers?
Spaces designed for recreational vehicles (RVs) and trailers are not exempt from coverage, but the Standards do not include technical provisions specific to these spaces....
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11B-217.2 Wheelchair accessible telephones
TELEPHONES 1 or more single units At least 50 percent of telephone units, but not less than 1 per floor, level, and exterior site [2010 ADA Standards...
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8. Transportation Vehicles
From the Board’s website: “Under the ADA, the Department of Transportation (DOT) issues and enforces accessibility standards for transportation vehicles that are based on the Board’s...
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11B-505.10 Handrail extensions
[2010 ADA Standards] 3. In alterations, full extensions of handrails shall not be required where such extensions would be hazardous due to plan configuration....
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2.2(b) Record of a Substantially Limiting Condition
relies on any record [such as an educational, medical or employment record] containing such information to make an adverse employment decision about a person who currently is qualified to perform...
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What Testing Accommodations Must Be Provided?
If the objective of the test is to measure one’s ability to solve algebra equations, for example, and the ability to perform basic math computations (e.g., addition, subtraction, multiplication...
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15. When may an employer refuse to hire, terminate, or temporarily restrict the duties of a person who has or had a hearing impairment because of safety concerns?
In making a direct threat assessment, the employer must evaluate the individual's present ability to safely perform the job....
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40. Must an employer ask whether a reasonable accommodation is needed when an employee has not asked for one?
The employer knows about the disability, suspects that the performance problem is a result of the disability, and knows that this employee is unable to ask for a reasonable accommodation...
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Web Accessibility
provides annual training on web accessibility to Web Content Personnel, and considers the degree and effectiveness with which personnel took accessibility considerations into account in the performance...
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11B-805.6 Hand washing fixtures, lavatories and sinks
The sink is the actual area where work is performed as opposed to a place where the employee cleans up before and after performing work elsewhere in the room....
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11B-805.6 Hand washing fixtures, lavatories and sinks
The sink is the actual area where work is performed as opposed to a place where the employee cleans up before and after performing work elsewhere in the room....
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§ 36.406(a)(2)
(2) New construction and alterations subject to §§ 36.401 or 36.402 shall comply either with the 1991 Standards or with the 2010 Standards if the date when the last application for a building...
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Slope
The 2010 Standards provide, at section 403.3, that the cross slope of walking surfaces not be steeper than 1:48....
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Parallel Approach to Kitchen Sinks
Commenters recommended that a parallel approach should be allowed at kitchen sinks in spaces without a cook top or conventional range, consistent with the ANSI A117.1 standard....
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New Elevators and Existing Elevators
However, substantive differences between requirements for "new" and "existing" elevators applied only to standard elevators....
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Other federal rules
Other federal rules The Department of Justice, Department of Transportation, and General Services Administration are responsible for issuing accessibility standards that are consistent...
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F.4 - If an agency has appropriately determined and documented that commercial items are not available that meet applicable technical provisions, must it also determine that an exception applies?
Undue burden documentation would be required if products meeting all (or some) of the standards are commercially available but would create an undue burden on the agency to acquire....