Users of healthcare and eldercare facilities often have mobility problems, use wheelchairs and walking aids, and suffer from incontinence....
Search Results "On-Board Wheelchair"
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Users and Needs
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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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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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#CripTheVoteStories with Katherine Schneider
During a music jingle, a graphic of a box with four quadrants with pictures of 1) the international symbol of access, a wheelchair sign, 2) Two hands signing, 3) A person using a white cane...
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Voters with Disabilities: Additional Monitoring of Polling Places Could Further Improve Accessibility
polling places had an accessible voting system that could pose a challenge to certain voters with disabilities, such as voting stations that were not arranged to accommodate voters using wheelchairs...
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RESNA Standards Committee on Inclusive Fitness
accessible fitness equipment standards just passed through ASTM, the fitness facility layout standards being developed through NSF International and guidelines available through the US Access Board...
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Rebuilding Together Omaha - Omaha, NE
We have a wonderful Board of Directors and Staff that is working well together to improve operations, fundraising, and interaction with our clients....
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Utah Independent Living Center (UILC) -Salt Lake City, UT
The Center is consumer controlled with a majority of staff and board members being people with disabilities....
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Independent Living Resource Center (ILRC) - Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Moriarty, and Socorro, NM
As a consumer-controlled agency, at least 51% of the staff and Board of Directors of ILRC are individuals with disabilities. ...
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FRAXA Research Foundation
Three Nobel Laureates sit on our volunteer Scientific Advisory Board....
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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...
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Subpart F—Certification of State Labs or Local Building Codes (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
commenter urged establishment of a dispute resolution mechanism, providing for interpretation (usually through a building official) and an administrative appeals mechanism (generally called Boards...
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Subpart F—Certification of State Labs or Local Building Codes (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
commenter urged establishment of a dispute resolution mechanism, providing for interpretation (usually through a building official) and an administrative appeals mechanism (generally called Boards...
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11B-206.2.3 Multi-story buildings and facilities
Many wheelchair users can get to upper floors through the use of crutches and other assistance, and can use their wheelchair brought to that floor where access to accessible restrooms, hallways...
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Accessible Route to Dumpster and Enclosure
The requirements for accessibility for an employee using a wheelchair would be to open the door, to enter roughly half-way, and to back out (see ADAAG Manual, section 4.1.1(3), p. 9, published...
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Final Regulatory Flexibility Analysis
The ADA requires the Department to adopt enforceable accessibility standards under the ADA that are consistent with the Access Board’s minimum accessibility guidelines and requirements....
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Congressional Hearings
I work and part of my taxes pay for public buses, and then they get mad just because I am using a wheelchair.”...
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Regulatory Flexibility Act
., "The Roles of the Access Board and the Department of Justice," "The Revised Guidelines," and "The Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" sections of the titles II and III NPRMs; Section...
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Regulatory Flexibility Act
., "The Roles of the Access Board and the Department of Justice," "The Revised Guidelines," and "The Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking" sections of the titles II and III NPRMs; Section...
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Inquiries Related to Ability to Perform Job Functions and Accommodations
An employer might require all applicants for a telemarketing job to demonstrate selling ability by taking a simulated telephone sales test, but could not require that a person using a wheelchair...
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Accessible Route Into and Through the Business
These create trip hazards for customers with low vision and snag under patrons' crutches, canes, and walkers and in their wheelchair wheels....
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23. Q: What types of modifications in law enforcement policies, practices, and procedures does the ADA require?
Example: A department modifies its enforcement of a law requiring a license to use motorized vehicles on the streets, in order to accommodate individuals who use scooters or motorized wheelchairs...
