MDE Advisory Committee’s meetings, members raised issues that went beyond the scope of the Committee’s statutory authority but were nonetheless viewed as critical to ensuring access of persons...
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8. Additional and Unaddressed Issues
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3.3 Data Sources
In addition, Committee members who use wheelchairs or scooters sometimes raised considerations from their personal experiences obtaining health care services....
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307 Protruding Objects
Objects mounted on walls and posts can be hazardous to persons with vision impairments unless treated according to the specifications in section 307 for protruding objects....
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Introduction to Guidelines
Introduction to Guidelines This guideline consists of 4 main parts: Usability of the product Personal Compatibility Compatibility With Peripheral Devices Information, documentation...
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j) Safety Hazards Policy
Kirola complains that the City has failed to adopt an overarching "written policy or procedure regarding the identification and removal of safety hazards to persons with mobility disabilities...
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5.1.2 Transfer Surface High Height Recommendations for M301 and M302
This particularly benefits persons using powered mobility devices and scooters with higher seat heights....
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17. May an employer apply a "no-fault" leave policy, under which employees are automatically terminated after they have been on leave for a certain period of time, to an employee with a disability who needs leave beyond the set period?
employer must modify its "no-fault" leave policy to provide the employee with the additional leave, unless it can show that: (1) there is another effective accommodation that would enable the person...
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C.1. - Who within the agency is responsible for ensuring EIT purchases comply with Section 508?
This person is often someone in the Chief Information Officer’s office....
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704.3 Volume Control Telephones
If the microphone in the handset is not being used, a mute button that temporarily turns off the microphone can also reduce the amount of background noise which the person hears in the earpiece...
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Reasonable Modification of Policies
and, more recently, ADA passenger vessel rules, requiring regulated entities to make reasonable modifications to policies in order to ensure appropriate and nondiscriminatory service to persons...
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T503 Passenger Access Routes
research on interior circulation on public transportation vehicles will yield a performance standard that will serve the needs of transit operators, bus and equipment manufacturers, and persons...
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Typical Issues
The accessible parking space has an adjacent access aisle that provides needed room for a person to open the car door fully and then stand with the aid of a walker, to transfer to a wheelchair...
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i. Medical examination and treatment tables and chairs
If a person with a disability cannot get onto an examination table or chair and is thus not examined (as occurs, for example, with some women with disabilities who cannot access ob-gyn tables...
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Sight Lines
When only conventional seated sight lines have been used to determine the seating bowl shape, standing spectators usually obstruct the line of sight for several rows in front of a person...
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Maneuvering Clearances at Doors [4.13.6]
This maneuvering space is necessary for anyone using a wheelchair or crutches because the person cannot easily move or step back while opening the door....
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Washing Machines; Clothes Dryers— Sections 214.2 and 214.3 of the 2010 Standards
and clothes dryers in common use laundry rooms in facilities serving accessible residential dwelling units.20 UFAS’ requirements for front-loading machines reflect the fact that not all persons...
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Paragraph (b) (Advisory Guidance)
The most common strategy for achieving this requirement is the use of a standard 9 mm miniature plug-in jack, common to virtually every personal tape player or radio....
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Section 37.85 Purchase or Lease of New Intercity and Commuter Rail Cars
The ADA does not stand in the way of new technology, but it does require that new technology, and the benefits it brings, be accessible to all persons, including those with disabilities....
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11B-707.4 Privacy
Speech output users can benefit from an option to render the visible screen blank, thereby affording them greater personal security and privacy....
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11B-707.4 Privacy
Speech output users can benefit from an option to render the visible screen blank, thereby affording them greater personal security and privacy. ◼ ETA Editor's Note The Department of...
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a) Public Right-of-Way
App. 4th at 821; see also ADA Title II Technical Assistance Manual, II-5.3000 Curb Ramps ("To promote both efficiency and accessibility, public entities may choose to construct curb ramps...
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3.1 Refining MDE Definition and Committee Scope
Examples of this discussion include the following: Persons undergoing hemodialysis often sit in chairs configured to facilitate circulatory system access (e.g., through an arteriovenous...
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Section 36.406(e) Housing at a Place of Education (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In addition to title III of the ADA, universities and schools that are recipients of Federal financial assistance also are subject to section 504, which contains its own accessibility requirements...
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Section 2: References
The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Improve the Health and Wellness of Persons with Disabilities....