One good way to do this is to inspect each shelter facility that your community plans to use in an emergency and identify barriers to people with disabilities, including people who use wheelchairs...
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  A. Evaluating the Physical Accessibility of Emergency Shelters
  
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  407.12 Reach Height (Section-by-Section Analysis)
  407.12 Reach Height (Section-by-Section Analysis) This section proposes requirements for the height of side and forward reaches that would enable persons using wheelchairs or other mobility... 
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  General Tips
  If service counters are too high for some users, such as people of short stature and people using wheelchairs, step around counters to provide service.... 
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  3.3.4 Clear Floor Length
  She recalled that there was one individual who had a “trailer” attached to her wheelchair that carried ventilator equipment which would not be required anymore due to advances in technology... 
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  Attachment A
  of providing auxiliary aids/services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs... 
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  Shredded Rubber
  A greater examination of the tramp metal in the particles may help to determine if there was an effect on the use of assistive devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, canes or crutches. ... 
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  Users and Needs
  Users of healthcare and eldercare facilities often have mobility problems, use wheelchairs and walking aids, and suffer from incontinence.... 
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  Introduction
  For example, when a curb ramp extends into an access aisle at an accessible parking space, a person using a wheelchair may not be able to get out of the car or van.... 
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  A. DEFINITIONS AND BACKGROUND
  The United States contends that those violations include, but are not limited to: -inaccessible (round) door knobs; -inadequate wheelchair maneuvering space at doors; -incorrect placement... 
- Voters with Disabilities: Additional Monitoring of Polling Places Could Further Improve Accessibility
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  QUESTION: SHOULD PVOs MODIFY POLICIES TO ACCOMMODATE REQUESTS BY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES TO TRAVEL WITH ANIMALS THAT DO NOT MEET THE DEFINITION OF SERVICE ANIMALS?
  specifically treating the passenger's mental or emotional disability) stating the following:(1) The passenger has a mental or emotional disability recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual... 
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  Major life activities
  The list of major life activities under Section 504 includes, but is not limited to, the activities listed below.12 caring for oneself performing manual tasks seeing... 
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  11B-212.3 Sinks
  Agencies responsible for promulgating and enforcing accessibility regulations have previously issued guidance, such as DSA-AC's Access Compliance Reference Manual. ... 
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  11B-212.3 Sinks
  Agencies responsible for promulgating and enforcing accessibility regulations have previously issued guidance, such as DSA-AC's Access Compliance Reference Manual.... 
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  Congressional Hearings
  I work and part of my taxes pay for public buses, and then they get mad just because I am using a wheelchair.”... 
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  XI. Overview of Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines for New Construction and Alterations
  Dispersal of wheelchair seating in theaters is required where there are more than 300 seats.... 
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  Accessible Entrance
  Having only one step at the entrance can prevent access by a person using a wheelchair, walker, or cane and can make entry difficult for many other people with mobility disabilities.... 
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  Section 36.406(d) Social Service Establishments (Section-by-Section Analysis)
  specific provision, § 224.3, that in guest rooms with more than twenty-five beds, at least five percent (5%) of the beds must have parallel clear floor space enabling a person using a wheelchair... 
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  Section 35.151(e) Social Service Establishments (Section-by-Section Analysis)
  include a specific provision that in guest rooms with more than twenty-five beds, at least five percent (5%) of the beds must have parallel clear floor space enabling a person using a wheelchair... 
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  II. Statutory and Regulatory Background
  by persons with handicaps; (2) All doors within such dwellings which are designed to allow passage into and within the premises are sufficiently wide to allow passage by persons in wheelchairs... 
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  Tips for Assisting People Who Are Blind or Visually-Impaired
  Be aware that many people who are blind prefer to walk rather than use wheelchairs, electric carts, etc.... 
