This height must be maintained for a length of at least 48 inches (1,220 millimeters) beside the clear space so that someone using a wheelchair or other assistive device can transfer to...
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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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Meeting Purpose
For example: Many mobility device users including wheelchair users and others unable to use steps: Will need assistance May need to use evacuate devices...
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4.2 Applications of Findings in Design and Standards Development
In our research, we oversampled power wheelchair users in order to better characterize their sizes and functional abilities and to more accurately identify differences in performance between...
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Background
preferred ADA toilet configuration does not work as well as it should for the majority of older adults, including both those who stand to transfer, as well as those who transfer directly from wheelchair...
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Section 37.43 Alteration of Transportation Facilities by Public Entities
section requires that any alteration, to the maximum extent feasible, results in the altered area being accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, including persons who use wheelchairs...
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Section 37.5 Nondiscrimination
If a taxi company charges $1.00 to stow luggage in the trunk, it cannot charge $2.00 to stow a folding wheelchair there....
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2.3 Implications of MDE Accessibility for Clinical Staff
Box 2.3 In his 60s, overweight and in a wheelchair, the patient had been seeing doctors and nurses regularly for his diabetes....
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Segway Human Transporter
They took roughly half the time of manual wheelchair users, but up to 43 percent more time than recumbent bicyclists (table 11). 6....
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Aquatic Access Pool Lift IGAT-180
It is user-operable, and its seat height is easily adjustable to accommodate various wheelchair heights....
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Pilot Rock FSW-26/18 Campfire Ring
The fire ring is filled with aggregate (not included) to about 9" above the ground to provide the elevated fire surface needed for wheelchair access. ...
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ClickAndGo Tactile Maps
Information for individuals who are mobility impaired can also be included, allowing users to easily identify and plan wheelchair accessible routes....
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11B-202.3 Alterations
., people who use wheelchairs) is not feasible, accessibility must still be provided in compliance with the requirements for people with other types of disabilities (e.g., people who have...
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Garaventa Evacu-Trac CD7 Evacuation Chair
This poses a problem when evacuating wheelchair users and other mobility impaired persons from school storey floors and above....
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II. Cost-disproportionality Is Only a Factor Under Certain Circumstances
permitted to consider cost-disproportionality in determining whether to make an altered path of travel readily accessible to individuals with disabilities (including individuals who use wheelchairs...
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Study Limitations
Every effort was made to recruit women into the study and the proportion of women examined in this study is similar to other studies that have involved community dwelling adult wheelchair...
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Location of accessible routes to stages. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Commenters described the impact felt by persons in wheelchairs who are unable to access the stage at all when others are able to do so....
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Location of accessible routes to stages. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Commenters described the impact felt by persons in wheelchairs who are unable to access the stage at all when others are able to do so....
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Smooth Surface
This provision derives from the ANSI A117.1‒1992 standard and is intended to permit wheelchair footrests to be used in pushing open doors without risking entrapment on the stile....
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PART 1: OVERVIEW AND GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
provides guidance for medical care providers on the requirements of the ADA in medical settings with respect to people with mobility disabilities, which include, for example, those who use wheelchairs...
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Sections 5 Through 9 (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
, or provide equivalent facilitation through such means as installing a folding shelf on the front of the counter at an accessible height to provide a work surface for a person using a wheelchair...
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8.5 Updating Standards in the Future
Wheelchair technologies might also change, lowering or raising seat heights or altering width or depth dimensions....
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18 Inch Low Height
Steinfeld stated it could be a reasonable compromise since the group most affected by increasing the height would be manual wheelchair users who could accommodate a 1 inch change in vertical...
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4.1.2 Surface Design of Examination Tables and Chairs
This method is consistent with the internationally recognized standard for the measurement of wheelchairs, ISO 7176-7:1998....
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"Service Animal" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
but not limited to, guiding individuals with impaired vision, alerting individuals with impaired hearing to intruders or sounds, providing minimal protection or rescue work, pulling a wheelchair...
