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Other Laws of Interest
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Check that You Got Everything
Make sure you know which checklist goes with which entrance and which toilet room and that you’ve got all the information you need. It is better to do it now than to have to go back....
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A2.2 Equivalent Facilitation
in the following sections: 4.1.6(3)(c) Elevators in Alterations 4.31.9 Text Telephones 7.2 Sales and Service Counters, Teller Windows, Information...
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Finding Assistive Listening Systems
For information about lending libraries, rental options, and help determining which equipment to use, contact your state's Assistive Technology Project, Vocational Rehabilitation Agency,...
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Introduction
very few ways for the visiting public who have visual impairments to have access to the information about exhibits....
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Low Vision Part 4: How Can People With Low Vision Maintain a Positive Outlook?
For more information on vision rehabilitation, visit https://www.nei.nih.gov/lowvision....
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Low Vision Part 2: What Can I Do if I Have Low Vision?
Watch this video from the National Eye Institute for more information. To learn more about vision rehabilitation, visit https://www.nei.nih.gov/lowvision....
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Low Vision Part 1: What Is Low Vision?
For more information on low vision, visit https://www.nei.nih.gov/lowvision....
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I fully support ADA requirements and the DGS' efforts. We are reconstructing a 325 space parking lot. 8% will be EVSE ready. 32 EVSE will be installed initially. Including EVSE required ADA spaces, new plan results in 322 spaces. Parking facility no longer complies with minimum parking requirements for facilities. Any suggestions for resolving this conflict for reworking of existing sites subject to CALGreen?
RESPONSE: Parking ordinances are typically adopted within each city and county in California and enforced by local planning department personnel. You could consider requesting a...
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F228 Depositories, Vending Machines, Change Machines, and Mail Boxes
The Board has clarified coverage of fuel dispensers in the final rule by adding a reference to them in the both the ADA scoping document (section 228) and the ABA scoping document (section...
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Brief Answers
Yes, the replacement of a staircase is an alteration under the ADA and DOT’s implementing regulations because a staircase replacement is tantamount to the renovation, rehabilitation...
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4. Rulemaking History
accessibility of emergency transportable housing units provided by FEMA after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, we convened an advisory committee in 2007 to make recommendations for amending the ADA...
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What is Readily Achievable Barrier Removal?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires public accommodations (businesses and non-profit organizations) to provide goods and services to people with disabilities on an equal basis...
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Accessible Transient Lodging [9]
In the case of the private sector, other types of residential facilities, such as apartment buildings, are not subject to the ADA (except for places of public accommodations within them,...
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Epilogue
Epilogue The ADA is unique in the context of civil rights legislation because it requires that businesses and governments do more than just cease discriminatory actions....
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Courtroom Access
I am working with a university’s ADA Coordinator and Facilities Manager regarding a series of planned alterations to a law school courtroom, which they are trying to make accessible as possible...
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Section 1630.2(j)(1)(i) Broad Construction; not a Demanding Standard
Standard Section 1630.2(j)(1)(i) states: “The term ‘substantially limits’ shall be construed broadly in favor of expansive coverage, to the maximum extent permitted by the terms of the ADA...
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Before January 26, 1992
Before January 26, 1992 Facilities built before January 26, 1992, are referred to as “pre-ADA” facilities.25 If there is an architectural barrier to accessibility in a pre-ADA facility,...
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Change "service animal" to "assistance animal." (Section-by-Section Analysis)
agencies, like the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), use the term "assistance animal," that term is used to denote a broader category of animals than is covered by the ADA...
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Change "service animal" to "assistance animal." (Section-by-Section Analysis)
agencies, like the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), use the term "assistance animal," that term is used to denote a broader category of animals than is covered by the ADA...
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In Closing
This is especially important for those who were not direct participants in the ADA’s passage and for the next generation that is growing up in an America transformed by the ADA....
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MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
date of this Agreement until it expires, SDA will submit written reports to the Department summarizing the actions SDA has taken pursuant to this Agreement and ensure compliance with the ADA...