Since this requirement would have been more pertinent to facility operations than to facility design, the Board did not include it in the final rule....
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Public Address Systems
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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, you may remove the barrier using the ADA Standards for Accessible Design...
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ATM Clear Floor or Ground Space
Comments from industry noted that it would be difficult to achieve this requirement in the design of controls activated by touch....
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Diagonal Curb Ramps
does not have to be horizontally straight to provide such a cue and that achieving straight segments two feet long within marked crossings is very difficult under standard intersection design...
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9.5 Do the ADA's Pre-Employment Inquiry and Confidentiality Restrictions Prevent an Employer from Filing Second Injury Fund Claims?
Most states have established "second injury" funds designed to remove financial disincentives in hiring employees with a disability....
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11B-216.12 Amusement rides
Amusement rides designed primarily for children, amusement rides that are controlled or operated by the rider, and amusement rides without seats, are not required to provide wheelchair spaces...
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Overview
This publication is designed to help title II and title III entities (“covered entities”) understand how the rules for effective communication, including rules that went into effect on March...
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Wheelchair Spaces in Tiered Boxes
Comments noted that requiring accessible routes to all boxes would fundamentally affect this type of design and recommended that an exception be made for such venues. Response....
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M101.6 Dimensional Tolerances (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Three commenters (two manufacturers and one medical association) indicated that tolerances vary based on the manufacturer, product design, and manufacturing process and that they are unaware...
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1133B.2.5.2
locking doors that are hand-activated and which are in a path of travel shall be operable by lever-type hardware, panic bars, push-pull activating bars, U-shaped handles or other hardware designed...
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1117B.5.5, Item 4
California's standards for signage are more stringent than Section 4.30 of the ADA Standards for Accessible Design. 1117B.5.5 Raised characters and pictorial symbol signs. ...
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When Ramps Are Required
For example, to reach a 12-inch high deck or platform, a designer could use a 12-foot ramp with the maximum 1:12 slope, or a 14-foot ramp with a less-steep 1:14 slope....
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3. ADA Coordinators
Every City department with over fifty employees has a designated ADA Coordinator responsible for investigating disability access complaints and serving as a resource for the department on...
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206.2.5 Restaurants and Cafeterias
Examples of "same decor" include, but are not limited to, seating at or near windows and railings with views, areas designed with a certain theme, party and banquet rooms, and rooms where...
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What is slip resistance?
such as its degree of cleanliness, whether It is wet or dry, and even the type or texture it exhibits, it cannot provide sufficiently accurate information about a surface to be used in design...
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A. BACKGROUND
Byington states that the Museum's failure to design accessible programs and services and thereby ensure that the content of its exhibitions, public programs, and other offerings were accessible...
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Words
Group designations such as "the blind," "the retarded" or "the disabled" are inappropriate because they do not reflect the individuality, equality or dignity of people with disabilities....
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C. FINDINGS BY THE UNITED STATES
architectural barriers in existing facilities included: no accessible seating in the Café; the force required to push or pull open the interior hinged doors to the men's and women's toilet rooms designated...
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B. PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
DPW's Disability Access Coordinator is responsible for monitoring access issues related to the public right-of-way; reviewing publicly-funded construction projects designed by or contracted...
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Clear Tread Width [1017.3]
The Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access in the School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York conducted the “Anthropometry...
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5.3.2.2 Transfer Sides Recommendation for Imaging Equipment
Industry agreed the best solution is to have transfer access where feasible within the medical equipment design on both long sides....
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Distinct Viewing Locations [F246.2, 1015.2, and 1015.3]
Distinct viewing locations within a viewing area don’t have to be identified, but may be designated by signs or other markers....
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M301.2.3 Transfer Surface Transfer Sides
Therefore, where feasible within the medical equipment design, the ability to have transfer access from two sides (either two long sides or a long and short side) is desired....
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R210 Protruding Objects
See AASHTO, Guide for the Planning, Design, and Operation of Pedestrian Facilities (2004), section 3.2.3....