As a CASp or Accessibility consultant, you probably find yourself navigating between the requirements of the ADA Standards, the California Building Code, and legislative requirements...
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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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Single User Restroom Accessibility
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Service Counters
The accessibility requirements for service counters allow for some level of creative design. However, there may be times that a counter design strays from the exact language and...
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When is a Curb Ramp a Ramp?
When is a Curb Ramp a Ramp? We’ve had several instances where an independent CASp, a Building Inspector, a Building Plan Checker and an Architect will look at the same ramping...
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Lavatories Adjacent to Partitions
Interpretations? Here’s another one! A restroom lavatory. Per 11B-606.2, we know that a clear space positioned for a forward approach is required (with exceptions), with proper...
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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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ADA Requirements
Each question in the survey describes a requirement contained in the regulations The Standards are designed to ensure accessibility for individuals with a wide variety of different disabilities...
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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...
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How to Prepare Effectively for the Palo Alto Networks XSIAM-Analyst Exam
Candidates who understand why XSIAM correlates alerts into unified incidents rather than presenting them individually bring a different quality of reasoning to investigation scenarios....
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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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B. Question 2: Section 904.4.1 and Clear Counter Space
with disabilities....
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B. The 2010 Standards Regarding Public Entrances Are Intended To Achieve the Same Result As the 1991 Standards Regarding Public Entrances
To that end, the ADA requires that new construction, such as Defendants’ stores, be “readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities,” except where an entity can demonstrate...
