Response by Jeanne Halloin: [The draft standard] had to be reviewed by the technical committee, by us and then rewritten, and it had to be reviewed by the board, and a lot of times we had...
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Issue 16: What environmental and perceptual data on artificial/electric lighting are available from buildings with low vision occupants?
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Future Work
A workshop and/or discussion panel with stakeholders (i.e. consumers, therapists, manufacturers, researchers, designers and Access Board members) is being planned to determine 1) what efforts...
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3.5 Other Tips for Increasing Access
Learn where the lifeguard stand is and where other obstacles on the pool deck are, such as pool toys (water noodles, kick boards, etc.)...
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1016.4 Passing Spaces
Where the surface is other than asphalt, concrete, or boards, slopes not steeper than 1:20 are permitted when necessary for drainage....
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Dispersion of Cells. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In explaining the basis for recommending, but not requiring, this type of dispersal, the Access Board stated that ‘‘[m]any detention and correctional facilities are designed so that certain...
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11B-706.1 General
The federal Access Board has published technical assistance on assistive listening devices and systems. ◼...
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QUESTION: WHAT ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS APPLY TO PASSENGER RAIL CARS WHEN SPECIFIC DESIGN STANDARDS ARE NOT PROVIDED IN 49 CFR PART 38?
provided in Part 38, it remains the responsibility of the passenger railroad to design and build rail car features that are usable by people with disabilities, including those who use wheelchairs...
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Auxiliary aids and services (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department is aware that the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (ATBCB) has used the phrase "text telephone" in lieu of the statutory term "TDD" in its final...
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Scope: ADA Standard Section 201.1
Section 201 discusses the scope of the ADA Standards.
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11B-603.2.3 Door swing
. ◼ ETA Editor's Note Limiting the encroachment of door swings into the wheelchair turning space, and lacking Exception 1 above allowed by 2010 ADA Standards, the CBC requirements...
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Re: Service Counters
I have, on many occasions, heard "interpretations" that the code does not allow a situation to exist where a person sitting in a wheelchair may have to look upward to interact with an employee...
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5. Recommendations
As discussed in Section 4.3, the requirements for diagnostic imaging equipment do not apply to patients in a seated (chair or wheelchair) when the imaging system is provided with and/or...
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Introduction
It is human nature and not unusual, therefore, to be concerned about interactions with people who use wheelchairs, who are blind, who are deaf, or whom we find difficult to understand....
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Bathroom Do’s and Dont’s
Be sure the grate of the floor drain is accessible so wheelchair wheels do not get caught in the slats. Do. Provide a rubber shower mat as an option....
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More on Notice
A City Managers’ office receives a call from a new resident who uses a wheelchair....
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Height and Clearances [4.19.2]
Height and Clearances [4.19.2] An apron clearance of at least 29 inches (minimum depth not specified) allows a person using a wheelchair to get as close as possible to the front of the...
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Frequently Asked Questions about Service Animals and the ADA
trained to perform many important tasks to assist people with disabilities, such as providing stability for a person who has difficulty walking, picking up items for a person who uses a wheelchair...
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Literature Review
For the search on WC vibrations, both databases were searched for titles that had the word wheelchair and any of the following: vibration, shock, surface, roughness, firmness, sidewalk,...
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Accessible Pathway & Corridor: Minimum Clear Width Required for 180-degree Turn Around Barrier
Findings from the Anthropometry of Wheeled Mobility Study indicate that a uniform width of at least 89.5 cm (35 in.) was required for 50% of the manual and power wheelchair users measured...
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A Preflight Announcement with Noah Seidel
Noah uses a wheelchair, and unfortunately, some airlines don’t know how to transport mobility devices....
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Caroline's Cart - Making Mobility Easy
It provides parents and caregivers a viable option to transport a child through a store while grocery shopping, without simultaneously having to maneuver a wheelchair and a traditional grocery...
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Liberty Resources, Inc - Philadelphia and Allentown, PA
More than fifty percent of our Board as well as fifty percent of our employees are persons with disabilities....
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June Kailes
Health and Wellness and Disability, National Center of Physical Activity and Disability and the Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Medical Instrumentation, the Access Board...
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Stavros Center for Independent Living, Inc. - Amherst, Greenfield, Springfield, MA
By law at least 51% of the staff and the Board of Directors at CILs must be persons with disabilities; we know about disability here through personal experience....
