or metered, and passenger loading zones; Pedestrian signs, including requirements for visible characters on signs and alternative requirements for audible sign systems and other technologies...
Search Results "NTTAA: National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995"
2010 ADA Definition
NTTAA: National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995: The National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act of 1995 (NTTAA) directs that as a general matter, all Federal agencies and departments shall use technical standards that are developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies, which are private, generally non-profit organizations that develop technical standards or specifications using well-defined procedures that require openness, balanced participation among affected interests and groups, fairness and due process, and an opportunity for appeal, as a means to carry out policy objectives or activities. Public Law 104– 113, section 12(d)(1) (15 U.S.C. 272 note).
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Overview of Proposed Guidelines
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Communicating with Customers
The revised regulations permit the use of new technologies including video remote interpreting (VRI), a service that allows businesses that have video conference equipment to access an interpreter...
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Dayle McIntosh Center for the Disabled - Anaheim, Laguna Hills, CA
Our mission is to advance the empowerment, equality, integration and full participation of people with disabilities in the community....
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Approach: ADA Standard Section 604.8.1.3
Section 604.8.1.3 covers the current ADA Standards for the arrangement of toilet compartments to provide for left or right-handed approach to the water closet.
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Minimum Number: ADA Standard Section 239.2
Section 239.2 covers scoping requirements in the current ADA Standards for the minimum number of miniature golf course holes that are required to be accessible.
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Section 1630.2(j)(1)(iii) Substantial Limitation Should Not Be Primary Object of Attention; Extensive Analysis Not Needed
Accordingly, the Amendments Act and the amended regulations make plain that the emphasis in ADA cases now should be squarely on the merits and not on the initial coverage question....
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22. Must an employer allow an employee with a disability to work a modified or part-time schedule as a reasonable accommodation, absent undue hardship?
Lucent Technologies, Inc., 135 F.3d 166, 172, 7 AD Cas. (BNA) 1345, 1349 (1st Cir. 1998) (a modified schedule is a form of reasonable accommodation). 64. See US Airways, Inc. v....
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Relationship to Other Laws
Except as otherwise provided in this part, this part shall not be construed to apply a lesser standard than the standards applied under title V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C...
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Autism Society of America
Through its national network, the Autism Society has spearheaded numerous pieces of federal, state and local legislation, including the 2006 Combating Autism Act, the first federal autism-specific...
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June Kailes
covering the demographics of disability populations (prevalence, causes, function versus diagnosis, employment rates, and health disparities) compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act...
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Adaptive Access
We have extensive experience with smaller projects, knowledge of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), Texas Accessibility Standards and successful long term relationships with our customers...
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LowVis Guide: Indoor Navigation for the Visually Impaired
Wayfinding technology is being installed permanently worldwide in malls, museums, airports, and subways. ...
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Issue 22: How is accessibility for persons with low vision assessed during the design review process?
facilities since the first initial standards to implement that law were used by our agency, and you tell the manager that if they don’t understand that it’s the ADA instead of the barriers act...
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Emphasis on Limitations Instead of Outcomes
Emphasis on Limitations Instead of Outcomes In passing the ADA Amendments Act, Congress clarified that courts had misinterpreted the ADA definition of ‘‘disability’’ by, among other things...
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Arriving at the Polling Place: Parking
The accessible parking spaces and access aisles must also be level to allow a safe transfer from the car to a person's wheelchair....
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Accessible Parking
For example, for a wheelchair user to exit her car, she must place her wheelchair in the access aisle, transfer from the car seat to her wheelchair, and then roll backward in the access...
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Positioning Supports Considered
[to] increase safety and assist patients in transferring on and off, positioning or repositioning their bodies, and maintaining static position.” See ANSI/AAMI HE 75, section 16.4.6....
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Building Directories
have been complaints that the directory's tenant names in our Lobby are hard to read: some people who have complained also say that this in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act...
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Benches
However, armrests on both ends of the bench could prevent a person using a wheelchair from being able to transfer onto the bench....
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Findings
However, the design may not have allocated for the 30 x 48 inch clear floor space to transfer at the swing or the required 60 inch diameter turning space adjacent to the swing. ...
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C. IMPLEMENTATION AND ENFORCEMENT
The report shall include identification of the make, model, and pictures of any purchased or leased equipment for lifting or transferring....
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Appendix B to Part 382—Cross-Reference Table
Services and information: 31 19 Refusal of transportation. 31(c) 17 Number limits. 33 25, 27 Advance notice requirements...
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Appendix B – Cross-Reference Table
Services and information: 31 19 Refusal of transportation. 31(c) 17 Number limits. 33 25, 27 Advance notice requirements...
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5. What does it mean for auxiliary aids and services to be provided in “accessible formats, in a timely manner, and in such a way as to protect the privacy and independence” of a student with a disability?
If the student is waiting for the auxiliary aid or service (as opposed to requesting and arranging for it in advance), DOJ and ED strongly advise that the public school keep that student...
