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Providing Auxiliary Aids and Services
To provide effective communication for participants who are deaf or have hearing loss or who are blind or have low vision, meeting organizers may need to provide auxiliary aids and services...
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a. Problem: Images Without Text Equivalents
Blind people, those with low vision, and people with other disabilities that affect their ability to read a computer display often use different technologies so they can access the information...
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
The IDEA includes 13 disability categories: autism, deaf‐blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple disabilities, orthopedic impairment...
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G. Completing the Survey and Checklist
Some sections of the checklist are divided into two parts, one for individuals with a mobility disability and the other for individuals who are blind or who have low vision....
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Cassette Recordings (Advisory Guidance)
Some persons who are blind or who have learning disabilities may require documentation on audio cassettes. Audio materials can be produced commercially or in-house....
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What is a "reasonable accommodation"?
include: physical changes, such as installing a ramp or modifying a workspace or restroom; sign language interpreters for people who are deaf or readers for people who are blind...
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Issue 7: Repair/replacement (put it back right!)
When the APS is not correctly installed, there is a risk that a person who is blind will cross a street with the wrong WALK indication or in the wrong direction....
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G.9. - Are agency purchases from Javits-Wagner-O'Day (JWOD) Act nonprofit agencies employing people who are blind or severely disabled (NIB/NISH) or Federal Prison Industries ("FPI," also known as UNICOR) exempt from Section 508?
No. Agency purchases from NIB/NISH and FPI are treated as procurements and are subject to Section 508. For EIT products and services where NIB/NISH and FPI are mandatory sources,...
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382.3 What do the terms in this rule mean?
enough to cover individuals who are hard of hearing, deaf, or deaf-blind....
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Low Vision Part 4: How Can People With Low Vision Maintain a Positive Outlook?
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Eye Institute’s mission is to “conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding...
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Low Vision Part 2: What Can I Do if I Have Low Vision?
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Eye Institute’s mission is to “conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding...
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Low Vision Part 1: What Is Low Vision?
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Eye Institute’s mission is to “conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding...
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Guidance for Conducting Physical Functional Assessments for ADA Paratransit Eligibility
production, administration and scoring of the functional assessment, the development and validation of a functional cognitive test, an environmental barrier analysis for individuals who are blind...
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Section 36.303(g)(9) Operational Requirements
response to the ANPRM, the Department received a significant number of comments from individuals with disabilities and groups representing persons who are deaf or hard of hearing and who are blind...
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Other Contrast Attributes
But it’s a change in texture so a person who’s visually impaired or blind, they would know – they’ve got the texture – but they’ve got both [cues]....
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i. Barriers to Web accessibility
For example, individuals who do not have use of their hands may use speech recognition software to navigate a website, while individuals who are blind may rely on a screen reader to convert...
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Projected Low Vision Prevalence over Time
And severe low vision, which is legal blindness, has a prevalence of about 1.25 million....
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What Terminology Should Be Used?
Examples include: A person who is blind—not "a blind person" A person who uses a wheelchair—not "a wheelchairbound person" or "a wheelchair person" A handicap is...
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Effective Communication
The same result occurs when a blind patron attempts to access the internet on a computer at a county’s public library when the computer is not equipped with screen reader or text enlargement...
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ADA Requirements
a requirement contained in the regulations The Standards are designed to ensure accessibility for individuals with a wide variety of different disabilities, such as persons who are blind...
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Hallways
A voter who is blind walks along a corridor with wall-mounted objects that are not protruding objects because they do not protrude more than 4 inches from the wall, are mounted above 80...
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Section 36.303(g)(1) Audio Description
Description” In the NPRM, the Department used the term “audio description” to refer to the spoken description of information describing the visual elements of a movie to an individual who is blind...
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Accessible Presentation of Meeting Content
Accessible exchange of information for people who are blind or have low vision may require that printed materials are provided in alternate formats (e.g., Braille, large print, on CD) or...