State and Local Governments: Making Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs Accessible to People with Disabilities, ” the “ADA Checklist for Emergency Shelters,” and other technical assistance...
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§382.125(b)
(b) You must give wheelchairs, other mobility aids, and other assistive devices priority for stowage in the baggage compartment over other cargo and baggage....
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F.4 - If an agency has appropriately determined and documented that commercial items are not available that meet applicable technical provisions, must it also determine that an exception applies?
Agencies should document commercial nonavailability in accordance with agency procedures to assist in defending the agency's decision in the event of a complaint....
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Title IV - Telecommunications
TRS enables callers with hearing and speech disabilities who use TTYs and callers who use voice telephones to communicate with each other through a third party communications assistant....
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Maintaining Accessibility in Museum Shops
Staff should know how to assist people who need help in reaching or seeing merchandise....
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B. Conducting Accessibility Surveys
Conducting Accessibility Surveys The following Quick-Check Survey (beginning on page 7) and the ADA Checklist for Emergency Shelters (beginning on page 11) are designed to assist State...
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12134(b) Relationship to other regulations
part 41 of title 28, Code of Federal Regulations (as promulgated by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare on January 13, 1978), applicable to recipients of Federal financial assistance...
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12186(a)(2)(A)(i) Issuance
changes in over-the-road buses in order to provide access to individuals who use wheelchairs during the effective period of such regulations and shall not require the purchase of boarding assistance...
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Primary Function Areas [4.1.6(2)]
This rule and the DOJ technical assistance manual for title III provide important information on this requirement, including the definition of key terms....
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B. Restrooms
The following is provided to assist manufacturers and designers to create restrooms which can be used by people with disabilities....
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A. Statutory and Rulemaking History Up to the 2008 NPRM
., Agreement Between the United States of America and the International Spy Museum, (June 3, 2006), available at http://www.ada.gov/spymuseum.htm.; Agreement Between the United States of...
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3.3.3. Captioning Device Scoping Requirements
the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, the National Association of the Deaf, the Association of Late Deafened Adults, and the Hearing Loss Association of America...
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Section 37.137 Paratransit Plan Development
The ADA is an opportunity to develop programs that will ensure the integration of all persons into not just the transportation system of America, but all of the opportunities transportation...
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Official Definitions
And to be eligible for payment for services that are provided for rehabilitation of your vision – receiving rehabilitation related to your visual impairment, Medicare defines low vision...
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8. Providing Qualified Readers
For example: A court has held under the Rehabilitation Act that it was not an undue hardship for a large state agency to provide full-time readers for three blind employees, in view of its...
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The Roles of the Access Board and the Department of Justice
The Access Board was established by section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. 29 U.S.C. 792....
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Resources
The contents of this factsheet were developed under a grant from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR grant number 90RT5015)....
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Service animal access to areas of a public accommodation. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
service animal may accompany its handler to such areas as admissions and discharge offices, the emergency room, inpatient and outpatient rooms, examining and diagnostic rooms, clinics, rehabilitation...
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Foot Travel on Trails and Roads With Restrictions
purposes, but foot travel is encouraged beyond the closure, people who use wheelchairs that meet the legal definition must be able to get behind the closure, as required by Section 504 of the Rehabilitation...
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LEGAL REQUIREMENTS
Federal employers are covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973....
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Alterations [§202.3]
Many types of projects are covered as “alterations,” including remodeling, renovation, rehabilitation, reconstruction, restoration, resurfacing of circulation paths or vehicular ways, and...
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Wheeled Mobility Anthropometry Project
The Access Board and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research sponsored a Wheeled Mobility Anthropometry Project to collect measurements of approximately 500 people...
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Section 37.41 Construction of Transportation Facilities by Public Entities
First, if an entity is a Federal recipient and uses Federal dollars to construct the facility, regulations implementing section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 794), require...