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Search Results "Individual with a Disability"
2010 ADA Definition
Individual with a Disability: Individual with a disability means a person who has a disability. The term "individual with a disability" does not include an individual who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs, when the private entity acts on the basis of such use.
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ADA Team
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Relationship to Other Laws
does not invalidate or limit the remedies, rights, and procedures provided under any Federal, State, or local law (including State common law) that affords greater or equal protection to individuals...
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Section 36.302(e) Hotel Reservations (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Most of these complaints involve individuals who have reserved an accessible hotel room only to discover upon arrival that the room they reserved is either not available or not accessible...
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GENERAL AGREEMENT
III.          GENERAL AGREEMENT The City shall not discriminate against qualified individuals on the basis of disability in violation of the ADA. 42 U.S.C. § 12112(a)....
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AccessText Network
AccessText is a conduit between the publishing world and colleges and universities across the country, with a shared mission to ensure students with disabilities have equal access to their...
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Exercises for Disabled Vets
Exercises for Disabled Vets By Stew Smith for Military.com I am a disabled veteran who subscribes to Military.com, and when catching up on old issues after my vacation, I found a reference...
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E101.2 Equivalent Facilitation (Section-by-Section Analysis)
proposed technical requirements in Chapters 4 and 5, but only if the alternative design or technology provides substantially equivalent or greater accessibility and usability by persons with disabilities...
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106.5.66 Structural Impracticability
If providing accessibility in conformance with these standards to individuals with certain disabilities (e.g., those who use wheelchairs) would be structurally impracticable, accessibility...
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Why are surface characteristics specified?
in 1990 through the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at The Pennsylvania State University compared the slip-resistance needs of persons with mobility impairments and those without disabilities...
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G.6.i. - What is the undue burden exception?
Undue burden is a longstanding concept in disability rights law....
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II-3.4200 Relationship to "program accessibility" requirement.
Provision of services to individuals with disabilities in a different location, for example, is one method of achieving program accessibility....
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11B-226.1 General
stations such as desks, laboratory and work benches, fume hoods, reception counters, teller windows, study carrels, commercial kitchen counters, and conference tables to accommodate the individual...
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The Inspection Team
Sites should be inspected by you as the meeting planner and by people with disabilities who have a user’s perspective....
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Rulemaking History
Nearly 75% of the comments that the Department received came from individuals and from organizations representing the interests of persons with disabilities....
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Changing Essential Job Functions
The ADA simply requires that an individual with a disability's qualifications for a job are evaluated in relation to its essential functions....
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Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (29 U.S.C. 794) (hereinafter referred to as “Section 504”) prohibits discrimination against individuals with...
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CURRICULUM
For example, “bug-in-the-ear” communicators allow sideline coaches and instructors to personalize the “real-time” explanation of game rules and procedures based on the needs of individual...
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Equivalent Facilitation [§103]
solution is “equivalent” involves considerations as to whether it is just as, if not more, effective in terms of accessibility, usability, convenience, and reliability for people with disabilities...
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1.3. Public Comments on Initial Regulatory Assessment and Department Responses
The Department received comments from movie industry representatives, individuals with disabilities, advocacy groups representing individuals with disabilities, State and Federal entities...
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Physical agility tests
Such a test would not be subject to the prohibition against pre-employment medical examinations if given to all similarly situated applicants or employees, regardless of disability....
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5. Policies, Practices, and Procedures
Towns must make reasonable modifications to policies, practices, and procedures to avoid discrimination against individuals with disabilities....
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Alterations to elevators. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
It is therefore possible that a bank of elevators controlled by a single call system may contain just one accessible elevator, leaving an individual with a disability with no way to call...
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Alterations to elevators. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
It is therefore possible that a bank of elevators controlled by a single call system may contain just one accessible elevator, leaving an individual with a disability with no way to call...
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Areas of a public entity open to the public, participants in services, programs, or activities, or invitees. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The NPRM proposed at § 35.136(g) that an individual with a disability who uses a service animal has the same right of access to areas of a title II entity as members of the public, participants...
