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QUESTION: WHAT ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS APPLY TO PASSENGER RAIL CARS WHEN SPECIFIC DESIGN STANDARDS ARE NOT PROVIDED IN 49 CFR PART 38?
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2. Question: What is the minimum width needed for a level boarding railroad passenger station platform to meet the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
We have received questions from entities constructing or altering platforms as to the minimum platform width needed to accommodate passengers using such mobility aid devices....
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"Other Power-Driven Mobility Device" and "Wheelchair" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Since the issuance of the 1991 title III regulation, however, the choices of mobility devices available to individuals with disabilities have increased dramatically....
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Purchase of multiple tickets. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department proposed this provision to facilitate the ability of individuals with disabilities to attend events with friends, companions, or associates who may or may not have a disability...
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Performance and the Surface Deficiency Score
If a surface location was found to have any of the four deficiencies (excessive running slope, cross slope, change in level, or openings), the location was awarded a value of 1 for each....
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Examples of Major Life Activities, Other Than the Operations of a Major Bodily Function
For example, although, as commenters pointed out, some courts have concluded that test taking is a major life activity,6 the Department notes that one or more already-included major life...
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Purchase of multiple tickets. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department proposed this provision to facilitate the ability of individuals with disabilities to attend events with friends, companions, or associates who may or may not have a disability...
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General Issues
As originally written, the enforcement provisions of section 508 would have taken effect on August 7, 2000....
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"Other Power-Driven Mobility Device" and "Wheelchair" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Since the issuance of the 1991 title II regulation, however, the choices of mobility devices available to individuals with disabilities have increased dramatically....
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ADA25: #12 of 25 -- Court Access
The ADA does not apply to Federal courts, but Federal Courts have separate Federal Court policy. The ADA requires courts to provide access to different types of services or equipment....
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Re: Service Counters
By having a 42" high portion of the counter adjacent to the lowered section, a person in a wheelchair is blocked from having the same customer-employee interaction as a person with no restrictions...
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Dispersion: ADA Standard Section 224.5
Section 224.5 covers scoping requirements in the current ADA Standards for dispersion of transient lodging guest rooms.
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11B-224.5 Dispersion
the transient lodging requirements of 2010 Standards shall be provided as follows-- i) Facilities that are subject to the same permit application on a common site that each have...
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PLACE OF PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION
or motel; or (ii) A facility that (A) Provides guest rooms for sleeping for stays that primarily are short-term in nature (generally 30 days or less) where the occupant does not have...
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Site Arrival Points: ADA Standard Section 206.2.1
Section 206.2.1 covers the scoping requirements for site arrival points of accessible routes in the most current ADA Standards.
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11B-206.2.8 Employee work areas
Large pieces of equipment, such as electric turbines or water pumping apparatus, may have stairs and elevated walkways used for overseeing or monitoring purposes which are physically part...
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11B-810.5.3 Platform and vehicle floor coordination
Most such low platforms must have a minimum height of eight inches above the top of the rail....
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11B-703.8.4 Character height
The uppercase letter “I” of the font shall have a minimum height complying with Table 11B-703.8.4....
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Lines of Sight for Wheelchair Spaces
Various changes have been made to the requirements for dispersion based on comments and responses to a number of questions posed by the Board in the proposed rule....
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DISABILITY
Being regarded as having such an impairment as described in paragraph (f) of this section. (2) Rules of construction. i....
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Alterations to Existing Elevators
Without this requirement, individuals with disabilities would have to wait unnecessarily for an accessible elevator to make its way to them arbitrarily....
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5.1 Overview of Legal Obligations
Reasonable accommodation must be provided as needed, to assure that individuals with disabilities have equal opportunities to participate in this process....
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302 Floor or Ground Surfaces
The Board has chosen not to reference specifications that have not been vetted by the model codes community or developed through established industry procedures governing the adoption of...
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Elevator Car Controls
The advisory committee recognized a potential adverse impact of a lower maximum height on elevators with panels that must have a large number of buttons in a limited amount of space and...