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Cornell University Employment And Disability Institute
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Safe Harbor is applied element by element in existing facilities
From my conversations with technical assistance staff at the US Access Board and the Department of Justice's Disability Rights Section, examples of "elements" in their opinion, would include...
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Alaska Governor’s Council on Disabilities and Special Education
Advise and assist the Council on state-wide issues related to developmental disabilities Assist the Council in achieving the full participation, coordination, and cooperation of all appropriate...
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Section 36.304 Removal of Barriers (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
interpreted the phrase ‘‘communication barriers that are structural in nature’’ broadly to encompass the provision of communications devices such as TDD’s, telephone handset amplifiers, assistive...
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Zero Project
Its sole objective is to assist in creating a world without barriers....
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Rebuilding Together Grays Harbor - Aberdeen, WA
Who We Are In 2010, 16% of American children lived in families with incomes below the poverty threshold....
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Research and its applications, medium-term and long term
That’s getting right down and seeing individual photoreceptors live through imaging and using technology that – the same type that’s used to look at galaxies thousands of light-years away...
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Research Issues
But that’s actually, it’s defined pretty broadly in terms of getting fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and then applying that knowledge so that we can...
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Building Support for S. 933
“Lots of people felt let down,” said Bonnie O’Day about the reactions at the spring, 1989, conference of the National Council on Independent Living (NCIL).21 Yet most agreed that it was...
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When we design for disability, we all benefit | Elise Roy | TED Talks
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or...
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A. Why Should Websites Be Accessible?
Many government services and activities are also provided on websites because the public is able to participate in them at any time of day and without the assistance of government personnel...
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Designed and Constructed for First Occupancy (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
A fixed date also assists those responsible for enforcing or monitoring compliance with, the statute, and those protected by it....
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C. First Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (2010)
, disability advocacy groups, manufacturers of hardware and software, trade associations, institutions of higher education, research and trade organizations, accessibility consultants, assistive...
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Issue 1: APS volume
The installer or an assistant should walk approximately 10 feet away from the device and listen to its volume during fluctuations in traffic before finalizing the volume adjustments....
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§ 382.65 Compliance procedures
(c) Any person believing that a carrier has violated any provision of this part may contact the following office for assistance: Department of Transportation, Aviation Consumer Protection...
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A. Designating an ADA Coordinator
A knowledgeable ADA Coordinator will be able to efficiently assist people with disabilities with their questions. She or he will also be responsible for investigating complaints....
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8.7 Efforts to Prohibit Drug and Alcohol Use in the Workplace
Many employers have established employee assistance programs for employees who abuse drugs or alcohol that are helpful to both employee and employer....
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Background
The Committee was convened by the Access Board in June 1996 to assist the Board in fulfilling its mandate to issue guidelines under the Telecommunications Act....
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Training
ADA Training to 1) all individuals who provide any course-related instruction to University students (including, but not limited to, professors, instructors, other faculty, and teaching assistants...
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1. Rulemaking History Prior to the 2010 ANPRM
The need for advancement in the area of access to movie theaters was necessary because assistive listening systems in movie theaters could not be used to effectively convey the audio content...
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Other OCR Resources
Nondiscrimination in Federally Assisted Programs, Policy Interpretations, 43 Fed. Reg. 18630 (May 1, 1978), www.ed.gov/policy/rights/reg/ocr/frn-1978-08-14.html. ...
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Expert opinion on the current knowledge
for those who have limited arm strength and/or situations where the height differential between the initial and target seats or gap difference is too large for them to negotiate without assistance...
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5. Qualified handicapped person
In addition, the extended age ranges for which recipients must provide full educational opportunity to all handicapped persons in order to be eligible for assistance under the Education...
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"Doing work'' or "performing tasks.'' (Section-by-Section Analysis)
One service dog user stated that, in some cases, ‘‘critical forms of assistance can't be construed as physical tasks,'' noting that the manifestations of ‘‘brain-based disabilities,'' such...
