In the United States, blindness is defined as part of the Social Security Act for purposes of defining disability for disability benefits (slide 5)....
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803.1 General
Partitions and doors should be designed to ensure people using accessible dressing and fitting rooms have privacy equivalent to that afforded other users of the facility....
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Common Problems with Courtrooms
Ø No assistive listening systems are provided for people who are hard of hearing. ...
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803.1 General
Partitions and doors should be designed to ensure people using accessible dressing and fitting rooms privacy equivalent to that afforded other users of the facility....
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803.1 General
Partitions and doors should be designed to ensure people using accessible dressing and fitting rooms privacy equivalent to that afforded other users of the facility....
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"Alerting to intruders." (Section-by-Section Analysis)
People have asserted, incorrectly, that use of such animals is protected under the ADA. ...
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707.4 Privacy
In addition to people who are blind or visually impaired, people with limited reach who use wheelchairs or have short stature, who cannot effectively block the ATM screen with their bodies...
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TTY Access at Wheelchair Accessible Phones
It is possible for a single unit to serve both people who use wheelchairs and those who use text telephones with careful design and placement of a standard TTY adjacent to an accessible...
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National AgrAbility Project
The vision of AgrAbility is to enhance quality of life for farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural workers with disabilities....
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Reach Ranges and Operability Requirements
One of the basic principles of universal design and accessibility is to provide controls that most people can reach and use....
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EXHIBIT A
Peapod provides effective communication with persons with disabilities, and ensures that individuals with disabilities are not excluded from use of www.peapod.com and its online services...
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Appendix A: Pedestrians with Visual Impairments
People with macular degeneration have varying effective fields of view....
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Assessment Factors
It is important to understand that these assessment factors relate to an entire class of device type, not to how a person with a disability might operate the device....
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Indiana AgrAbility
In 1979, a farmer with severe disabilities asked Purdue's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering for help with modifying his tractor so he could continue farming....
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Sections 35.171, 35.172, and 35.190--Streamlining Complaint Investigations and Designated Agency Authority (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department is proposing modifications to its current procedures with respect to the investigation of complaints alleging discrimination on the basis of disability by public entities...
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Work Support of Virginia Commonwealth University
Worksupport is a web portal that highlights VCU funded projects on many topics related to the employment of individuals with disabilities....
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Children's Use
Describes spaces and elements specifically designed for use primarily by people 12 years old and younger....
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106.5.18 Children's Use
Describes spaces and elements specifically designed for use primarily by people 12 years old and younger....
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Color
Color People with low vision wanted colors to help distinguish between different landscape features....
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"Other Power-Driven Mobility Device" and "Wheelchair" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Since the issuance of the 1991 title III regulation, however, the choices of mobility devices available to individuals with disabilities have increased dramatically....
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Historic Preservation
methods include using audio-visual materials and devices to depict those portions of an historic property that cannot otherwise be made accessible and assigning staff or volunteers to guide people...
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B. Proposed 255 Guidelines
For example, the guidelines require input, output, display, control, and mechanical functions to be accessible to individuals with disabilities....
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Yale 5300LN Series Grade 2 Lever Locks
ADA: The 5300LN meets accessibility guidelines of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the requirements of the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards and ANSI 117.1, all requiring ease...
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Section 36.201(b) (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Groups representing persons with disabilities objected to the proposed rule because, in their view, it permitted the large theater or hospital to evade ADA responsibilities by leasing to...
