People with disabilities are unable to gain access to city facilities, programs, services, or activities because of a public entity’s reliance on these common misconceptions....
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Issue: "Grandfather" Clause or Small Entity Exemption
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Historic Preservation Programs
Programs In order to avoid possible conflict between the congressional mandates to preserve historic properties, on the one hand, and to eliminate discrimination against individuals with disabilities...
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Hold and release of accessible guest rooms and third-party reservations. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In such instances, individuals with disabilities may be denied an equal opportunity to benefit from the services offered by the public accommodation, i.e., a hotel guest room....
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Relationship to Other Laws
the remedies, rights, and procedures of any other federal, state, or local laws (including state common law) that provide greater or equal protection for the rights of individuals with disabilities...
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II. INVESTIGATION AND FINDINGS
Complainant J.P. is deaf and as such, is an individual with a “disability” within the meaning of the ADA. 42 U.S.C. § 12102; 28 C.F.R. § 36.104. 7....
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Self-evaluation
self-evaluation is the key activity to determine what needs to be done to make sure the public entity is in compliance with the ADA and is providing an equal opportunity for people with disabilities...
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Hospital and healthcare settings. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Public entities, including public hospitals, must modify policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of a service animal by an individual with a disability. 28 CFR 35.130(b)(7)...
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Maintaining Accessibility in Museum Programs
Once inside the building, visitors with disabilities want to fully experience all that museums have to offer – exhibitions, programs, special events, publications, and videos....
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"Qualified Reader'' (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This proposal was suggested in order to make clear to public accommodations that a failure to provide a qualified reader to a person with a disability may constitute a violation of the requirement...
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of services advising guests to contact the ADA Contact Person with any questions or complaints regarding the services, amenities, accommodations or facilities provided to persons with disabilities...
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Phase II: Energy and Commerce & Public Works and Transportation Committees
Consequently, their initial draft of the ADA excluded persons who were mentally ill from the definition of disability. This caused an uproar in the disability community....
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Comments
Disability community commenters unanimously supported the Department's proposal....
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SUMMARY OF PRELIMINARY REGULATORY ANALYSIS
who are expected to benefit from improved ICT accessibility; (b) time saved by members of the public with certain disabilities when using more accessible federal websites; and (c) reduced...
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A Bird’s Eye View of the House Deliberations
of promoting civil rights legislation for people with disabilities....
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Section 508
Section 508 requires Federal electronic and information technology to be accessible to people with disabilities, including employees and members of the public....
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Wheelchair Space or Transfer Seat or Transfer Device
wheelchair spaces and transfer seats and devices because most amusement rides are too complex to be reasonably modified or re-engineered to accommodate the majority of individuals with disabilities...
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11B-221.2.1.6 Specialty seating areas
buildings and facilities, if it is not readily achievable for wheelchair spaces to be placed in each specialty seating area, those services or amenities shall be provided to individuals with disabilities...
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Subjects
sample required wheeled mobility device users who lived in the community and were able to transfer independently (with or without a transfer board) and who represent a broad spectrum of disabilities...
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L. Accessible Guest Rooms
Tower section of the Hotel); b) one Executive Queen Suite; c) two Executive King Suites; d) the Governor's Suite made accessible via the accessible connecting room provided to guests with disabilities...
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7. Q: Our center specializes in "group child care." Can we reject a child just because she needs individualized attention?
If a child who needs one-to-one attention due to a disability can be integrated without fundamentally altering a child care program, the child cannot be excluded solely because the child...
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Illegal Use of Drugs
Title II regulation 28 § 35.108 Definition of disability: (g) Exclusions....
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Section 36.302(c) Service Animals (Section-by-Section Analysis)
title III regulation states that ‘‘[g]enerally, a public accommodation shall modify [its] policies, practices, or procedures to permit the use of service animals by an individual with a disability...
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Treatment of "manually-powered mobility aids.'' (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Since strollers are not devices designed primarily for individuals with mobility disabilities, the Department does not consider them to be manually-powered mobility aids; however, strollers...
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Poll Worker Training
The Supervisor shall ensure that all poll worker training materials emphasize that by law, individuals with disabilities, including individuals who are blind or visually impaired,...