Presented at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC, January 10-14, 2000....
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Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. Washington, D.C. Faletti, M.V. (1984). Human factors research and functional environments for the aged. In I....
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III-6.4000 Alterations: Historic preservation
The decision to use alternative standards for that feature must be made in consultation with the appropriate advisory board designated in ADAAG, and interested persons should be invited...
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Section 35.151(h) Medical care facilities (Section-by-Section Analysis)
While the Access Board did not establish specific design requirements for dispersion in the 2004 ADAAG, in response to extensive comments in support of dispersion it added an advisory note...
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11B-206.2.1 Site arrival points
Access Board and the Federal Highway Administration. It is the responsibility of the design professional to comply with these public right of way requirements....
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INTRODUCTION
Accessible curb ramps are necessary to permit people with mobility disabilities who use mobility aids such as wheelchairs, scooters, canes, walkers, or crutches to access the City's pedestrian...
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3.0 Comparison of Research Methodologies
Fifty-five percent used manual wheelchairs, 36% used power wheelchairs and 9% used scooters. ...
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Review of the Film When I Walk
So he goes back to NYC and resumes his life in a wheelchair. He attends an MS meeting where he meets Alice his future wife. ...
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Process of Determining the Appropriate Reasonable Accommodation
For example, if an employee who uses a wheelchair requests that his or her desk be placed on blocks to elevate the desktop above the arms of the wheelchair and the employer complies, an...
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General Tips for Interacting with Individuals with Disabilities
For example, use, “You must be frustrated by having to wait for your checked wheelchair.”...
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2.0 Methodology
U.S. standards include both Imperial and “soft” conversions to Metric units, but all the other standards are in Metric units only; there are at least three different terms used for a “wheelchair...
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NOTICE UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT
of providing auxiliary aids/services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs...
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Visible Alarms
exits, and other common use spaces) were required to be accessible under the 1991 Standards; areas in which employees actually perform their jobs are required to enable a person using a wheelchair...
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10. How quickly must an employer respond to a request for reasonable accommodation?
An employee who uses a wheelchair requests from his supervisor an accessible parking space, explaining that the spaces are so narrow that there is insufficient room for his van to extend...
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Technical Memorandum TM 2017-25 Door and Gate Surfaces
The intent of this section is to provide protection for persons with mobility impairments from injury by preventing projections that may catch a cane, crutch, walker, or wheelchair and inhibits...
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A. Evaluating the Physical Accessibility of Emergency Shelters
One good way to do this is to inspect each shelter facility that your community plans to use in an emergency and identify barriers to people with disabilities, including people who use wheelchairs...
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General Tips
If service counters are too high for some users, such as people of short stature and people using wheelchairs, step around counters to provide service....
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3.3.4 Clear Floor Length
She recalled that there was one individual who had a “trailer” attached to her wheelchair that carried ventilator equipment which would not be required anymore due to advances in technology...
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Attachment A
of providing auxiliary aids/services or reasonable modifications of policy, such as retrieving items from locations that are open to the public but are not accessible to persons who use wheelchairs...
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Shredded Rubber
A greater examination of the tramp metal in the particles may help to determine if there was an effect on the use of assistive devices such as wheelchairs, walkers, canes or crutches. ...
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Users and Needs
Users of healthcare and eldercare facilities often have mobility problems, use wheelchairs and walking aids, and suffer from incontinence....
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Introduction
For example, when a curb ramp extends into an access aisle at an accessible parking space, a person using a wheelchair may not be able to get out of the car or van....
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Safe Harbor is applied element by element in existing facilities
These incremental changes were made to address technological changes that have occurred since the promulgation of the 1991 Standards, to reflect additional study by the Access Board, and...
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A. DEFINITIONS AND BACKGROUND
The United States contends that those violations include, but are not limited to: -inaccessible (round) door knobs; -inadequate wheelchair maneuvering space at doors; -incorrect placement...