Service animal means any guide dog, signal dog, or other animal individually trained to work or perform tasks for an individual with a disability, including, but not limited to, guiding...
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§ 37.3 Service animal
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Applicability to Carrier Web Sites
who notify the carrier that they are unable to use a Web site due to their disability....
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Section 35.160 Communications (Section-by-Section Analysis)
proposes to expand § 35.160(a) to clarify that a public entity's obligation to ensure effective communication extends not just to applicants, participants, and members of the public with disabilities...
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5.7 File a Lawsuit
You can find a lawyer through a referral organization (check your state Bar Association) or disability rights organizations....
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REPORTING, ENFORCEMENT AND OTHER PROVISIONS
Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Disability Rights Section, Attn: Charlotte Lanvers, Trial Attorney, 1425 New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20005. ...
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Section 37.167 Other Service Requirements
The entity must announce any stop requested by a passenger with a disability, even if it does not meet any of the other criteria for announcement....
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F. Shelter Environment
But quiet spaces are limited, they should be made available on a priority basis to people whose disabilities are aggravated by stress or noise. ...
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Exercise Machines and Equipment
The 2010 Standards do not require changes to exercise machines or equipment in order to make them more accessible to persons with disabilities....
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Issue: Effective Communication
Requirement: Title II requires that city governments ensure that communications with individuals with disabilities are as effective as communications with others....
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Can a public accommodation exclude a person with HIV or AIDS because that person allegedly poses a direct threat to the health and safety of others?
A public accommodation may exclude an individual with a disability from participation in an activity if that individual’s participation would result in a direct threat to the health or safety...
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ADA Facilities Checklist: Initial Questions for Private Entities
Do any company policies, procedures or practices tend to discriminate against people with disabilities? 6. Does the company lease any space to any Public Accommodations?...
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Appoint an ADA Coordinator
Knowledge of the ADA and other laws addressing the rights of people with disabilities, such as Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act....
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QUESTION: WHEN A RAIL OPERATOR CONSTRUCTS A NEW STATION PLATFORM OR ALTERS AN EXISTING STATION PLATFORM, DOES 49 CFR PART 37 REQUIRE THE RAIL OPERATOR ENSURE THAT THE PLATFORM IS AT LEAST 8 INCHES ABOVE TOP OF RAIL, EVEN IF THE RAILROAD OPERATOR WILL PROVIDE ACCESSIBILITY CONSISTENT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 37.42?
entities, such as Amtrak and commuter operators, must construct a new facility for use in designated public transportation so that it is readily accessible to and usable by persons with disabilities...
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PHYSICAL CHANGES TO FACILITIES
The elements or features of the City of Waukegan facilities that do not comply with the Standards, including those listed in this section, prevent persons with disabilities from fully...
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TITLE III COVERAGE AND DETERMINATIONS
Accordingly, they have a disability within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 12102 and 28 C.F.R. § 36.104....
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BACKGROUND
The United States Department of Justice (Department) is responsible for administering and enforcing Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) 42 U.S.C. §§ 12131-12134...
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Stadium-Style Movie Theaters
The line-of-sight requirements recognize the importance to the movie-going experience of viewing angles, and the final regulations ensure that movie patrons with disabilities are provided...
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ADA Title II: State and Local Government Activities
Title II requires that State and local governments give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all of their programs, services, and activities (e.g. public education...
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Turnstiles and Security Gates at Entrances
Turnstiles and Security Gates at Entrances Businesses with narrow revolving turnstiles located at the entrance exclude people with disabilities unless accessible gates or passages are...
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Statutory Background
The Access Board is responsible for developing and maintaining accessibility guidelines for the construction and alteration of facilities covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act (...
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20. When an employee requests leave as a reasonable accommodation, may an employer provide an accommodation that requires him/her to remain on the job instead?
Example A: An employee with emphysema requests ten weeks of leave for surgery and recuperation related to his disability....
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ADA Task Force Meeting Topics (Public Entity)
"ADA Task Force Meeting Topics" (12 KB PDF)] Role of ADA Compliance Coordinator Maintain Accountability within Task Force for Completion of Assigned Tasks Coordination with Disability...
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Service animal access to areas of a public accommodation. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The NPRM proposed at § 36.302(c)(7) that an individual with a disability who uses a service animal has the same right of access to areas of a public accommodation as members of the public...
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III-4.2300 Service animals
A public accommodation must modify its policies to permit the use of a service animal by an individual with a disability, unless doing so would result in a fundamental alteration or jeopardize...