(with DOJ and OSERS) Dear Colleague Letter and Frequently Asked Questions on Effective Communication for Students with Hearing, Vision, or Speech Disabilities in Public Elementary and Secondary...
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Other OCR Resources
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Chapter 1: Background
additional research is necessary to help define optimal design characteristics for transfer surfaces that have the least negative impact for wheeled mobility devices users who lived in community...
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Best Practices
The grants will support capital improvements, including ramps, elevators, power lifts and Limited Use/Limited Application (LULAs), signage, communication access devices, curb cuts and/or...
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Chapter 2: Putting the ADA on the Legislative Agenda: The National Council on Disability
(R-CT) and Congressman Tony Coelho (DCA) first introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act in April, 1988, many persons in and out of the disability community did not give it a fighting...
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5.0 Conclusions
Underlying these reasons is the lack of communication between the researchers and standards developers at the international level....
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Web site accessibility. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In a period of shrinking resources, public entities increasingly rely on the web as an efficient and comprehensive way to deliver services and to inform and communicate with their citizens...
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Information for Passengers
Disability community comments supported these proposals, which did not propose significant substantive changes from the provisions of the ACAA that have been in effect since 1990....
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Statute Citations
(Title IV, FCC) Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 42 U.S.C. §§ 4151 et seq....
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General Substantive Requirements of the New Construction Provisions (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
The phrase ‘‘readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities’’ is a term that, in slightly varied formulations, has been used in the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968,...
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206.2.1 Site Arrival Points
(1) Newly constructed or altered streets, roads, and highways must contain curb ramps or other sloped areas at any intersection having curbs or other barriers to entry from a street...
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Literature Cited
Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. www.accessboard.gov/research&training/Exterior%20Surfac es/exteriorsarticle.htm Laufenberg T.; Winandy, J.E. 2003....
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Grab bar protocol
One hundred and fifteen (115) subjects were tested under this protocol and four were unable to perform any transfers because this particular configuration posed significant barriers to their...
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A4.5.1 General
A research project sponsored by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) conducted tests with persons with disabilities and concluded that a higher coefficient...
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A. Medical equipment and furniture
Individuals with disabilities may be less likely to get routine preventative medical care than people without disabilities because of barriers to accessing that care....
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DEFINITIONS
“Bug” means a defect that creates an accessibility barrier for a Participant or Course Creator with a disability resulting from nonconformance of www.edx.org, edX mobile applications, or...
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Accessible Parking Spaces
In addition, businesses or privately owned facilities that provide goods or services to the public have a continuing ADA obligation to remove barriers to access in existing parking facilities...
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General Substantive Requirements of the New Construction Provisions (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
The phrase "readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities'' is a term that, in slightly varied formulations, has been used in the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968,...
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B. Assistive Listening Systems
The Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) has published a pamphlet on Assistive Listening Systems which lists demonstration centers across the country...
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National Center for Blind Youth in Science (NCBYS)
Insufficient hands-on materials, few teachers who understand tactile learning, and lack of access to blind adult role models and resources have placed artificial barriers on blind youth...
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Meeting ANSI Standard S12.60 Requirements
The higher the number, the better the ceiling acts as a barrier to airborne sound transmission....
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4. Maintenance Policies
Ultimately, however, Kirola has not persuasively demonstrated that misplaced step stools are architectural barriers or that they denied her program access to the City's library program in...
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B. CASE OVERVIEW
., and California Civil Code § 54 et seq. due to disability access barriers to the following programs, services, activities and facilities owned, operated and/or maintained by the City and...
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR INVESTIGATORS
Why does the Respondent believe that the reasonable accommodation it provided was effective in eliminating the workplace barrier at issue, thus providing the Charging Party with an equal...
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Step 2: Identify the Presence of Limiting Factors
Access Board for identifying when extreme environmental barriers allow the use of General Exception 2....
