Percentages failing to meet criteria as functions of age (slides 21 and 22) Percent of those with 20/40 or better standard high contrast visual acuity who are “legally blind” (20/200 or 10 times...
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John Brabyn, Ph.D., Director of Rehabilitation Engineering Research, Center on Low Vision and Blindness (NIDRR), Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute
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Falls and Injuries
So you have four times the risk of hip fracture if you have low vision by Medicare definition than you if you don’t – all else being equal....
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The Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
Comments responded to questions regarding elements scoped for the "first time" in the 2004 ADAAG, including detention and correctional facilities, recreational facilities, and play areas...
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Airport Kiosk Accessibility
We included a provision proposing to make all parties jointly and severally responsible for the timely and complete implementation of the agreement provisions....
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Best Practices
Services New York, NY During the spring of 2016, NYC Mayor de Blasio and the City Council enacted legislation (Local Law 27) that requires all City agencies to hire or appoint full-time...
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PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE POLLING PLACES
but not a telephone system requiring the use of a cell phone or a call ahead notification); (4) a prompt response from election officials to acknowledge their awareness of the voter; (5) timely...
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25. Evaluation and placement
Thus, a full reevaluation is not required every time an adjustment in placement is made. “Any action” includes denials of placement....
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3. Alternative Regulatory Approaches: Automated Announcement Systems
considerations – such as analyzing NTD annual data – to tailor a VOMS threshold that reduces the burden of the automated announcement systems requirement on small entities, while, at the same time...
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Triggering event. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
If permits are not issued in a timely manner, then the construction could be delayed until after the effective date, and then the project would have to be redesigned....
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Table 3
design and construction of pedestrian facilities in the public right-of-way. 26The requirements analyzed in Table 3 include: alternate pedestrian access routes, pedestrian signal phase timing...
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Meeting Purpose
Devise a system to maintain paper copies of this list, as well as electronic copies, updated no less than three to four times during a 24-hour period....
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Factors to Consider in Planning For & Administering an ADA Facilities Compliance Plan
Should you choose an individual to head your internal effort who already has a full plate (“if you want something done, give it to a busy person”) or someone who has more time but has not...
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1.5. Major Provisions of Final Rule
based on the number of auditoriums at each movie theater that exhibit digital movies and is designed to ensure the availability of a sufficient number of devices for use at peak attendance times...
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3.1.3. Growth Rate of Auditoriums
As the figure shows, the share of Megaplex and Multiplex movie theaters grows over time while the number of Miniplex and Single-Auditorium movie theaters declines. ...
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Background
In the time since the development of these early requirements, the demographics of the population of people with disabilities have changed dramatically....
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III-4.4500 Priorities for barrier removal
Because the resources available for barrier removal may not be adequate to remove all existing barriers at any given time, the regulation suggests a way to determine which barriers should...
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XI. GENERAL & MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
If it becomes impracticable for either party to meet a deadline established by this Agreement, the parties may modify the Agreement’s time-lines in accordance with ¶ 50, provided that the...
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA’S STATEMENT OF INTEREST ON THE PARTIES’ MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT
failed to comply with the requirements for accessible public entrances set forth in § 4.1.3(8) of the 1991 ADA Standards for Accessible Design (1991 Standards), which were in effect at the time...
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Section 37.11 Administrative Enforcement
An aggrieved individual can complain to DOT about an alleged transportation violation and go to court at the same time....
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Section 1630.2(i) Major Life Activities
as falling outside the definition of “major life activities” under the ADA. 2008 House Judiciary Committee Report at 16; See also 2008 Senate Statement of Managers at 8 (“for the first time...
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Section 1630.2(l) Regarded as Substantially Limited in a Major Life Activity
raised by members of the business community regarding potential abuse of this provision and misapplication of resources on individuals with minor ailments that last only a short period of time...
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Background
Since that time, the Department has amended the rule ten times.1 These amendments have concerned such subjects as boarding assistance via lift devices for small aircraft, and subsequently...
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2. The Class Notices Are Defective and Will Reach Only A Minuscule Portion of Class Members
the summary notice of the Agreements advises, class members: "are deemed to have waived the protection provided by any state statutes or codes with respect to unknown claims at the time...
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Appendix D: Photometric Measurements
The time and horizontal illuminance readings were manually recorded on each trial, however, a simple software program running on the tablet PC also recorded horizontal illuminance readings...