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The Seeing Eye
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C. Costs and Benefits
In addition to the benefits to individuals with disabilities, individuals without disabilities—who will now be able to attend, enjoy, and discuss movies with their family and friends that...
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11B-410.1 General
DSA regulates the usability of elevators and platform (wheelchair) lifts for persons with disabilities....
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11B-223.1 General
The lack of a design requirement does not mean that covered entities are not required to provide services to people with disabilities where accessible patient bedrooms or resident sleeping...
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Service and Companion Animal Owners: Know Your Rights!
Service and Companion Animal Owners Service and companion animals can help people with disabilities go about their daily lives. ...
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IRS Videos in ASL: Understanding Tax Terms for American Sign Language Interpreters, Part 3 (Captions & Audio)
In this video, the complex phrase for deaf and hard of hearing taxpayers, Permanently and Totally Disabled, is defined as it relates to taxes....
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Section 35.151(f) Housing at a place of education
The transient lodging standards also require that a greater number of units have accessible features for persons with communication disabilities....
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§ 382.21 Aircraft accessibility
armrests as required by this paragraph, carriers shall configure cabins, or establish administrative systems, to ensure that individuals with mobility impairments or other persons with disabilities...
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In the NPRM, in § 36.302(c)(2)(i), the Department proposed that a public accommodation may ask an individual with a disability to remove a service animal from the place of public accommodation...
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11B-206.4.1 Entrances and exterior ground floor exits
In an emergency situation much time can be wasted if persons with disabilities must travel the full distance to the inaccessible exit door before there is a sign posted indicating that the...
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Breed limitations. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Such deference would have the effect of limiting the rights of persons with disabilities under the ADA who use certain service animals based on where they live rather than on whether the...
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A. About Appendices 1 and 2
Reviewing programs and facilities for accessibility is one of the most effective ways for state and local governments to ensure that they are complying with the Americans with Disabilities...
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B. Carrier-Supplied Oxygen
As a matter of disability law, undue burden implies that there may necessarily be some burden (a “due burden”) in accommodating someone’s disability....
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Issue: Historically Significant Facilities
Common Problem: City governments may believe that they have no duty to make changes to historically significant buildings and facilities to improve accessibility for people with disabilities...
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Interactive Transaction Machines (ITMs)
Comments from disability groups and individuals with disabilities generally supported coverage of ITMs and point-of-sale machines....
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Resources for Web Developers
is available at www.section508.gov, which also provides information about the Federal government’s initiative to make its electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities...
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M302.2.3 Size (Section-by-Section Analysis)
One commenter, a manufacturer, although in agreement with the 21-inch width, stated that the 15 inches deep requirement should be increased to 17 inches, a disability advocate recommended...
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5.4.6 Transfer Support Gripping Surface Cross Section and Clearances for M301, M302, and M305.2
Cross Section and Clearances for M301, M302, and M305.2 Description: This provision prescribes a cross-sectional profile of the transfer support sufficient to enable individuals with disabilities...
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10. How quickly must an employer respond to a request for reasonable accommodation?
If the employer and the individual with a disability need to engage in an interactive process, this too should proceed as quickly as possible.(37) Similarly, the employer should act promptly...
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31. Must an employer provide a reassignment if it would violate a seniority system?
Generally, it will be "unreasonable" to reassign an employee with a disability if doing so would violate the rules of a seniority system.(92) This is true both for collectively bargained...
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Telecommunications. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Paragraph (d)(1) is retitled, "Telephones" and altered to address situations in which a public accommodation must provide an effective means to communicate by telephone for individuals with disabilities...
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6. Modifications to the Functional Performance Criterion for Limited Vision
Board proposed to increase the covered acuity range to 20/200 (or a field of vision less than 20 degrees)—which is a common legal definition of blindness—to afford more individuals with disabilities...
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B. EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION
Lewisboro agrees to provide qualified sign language and oral interpreters and other appropriate auxiliary aids and services, when needed for effective communication with qualified persons with disabilities...
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Introduction
When the ADA's minimum requirements are not met, the results can limit or exclude a person with a disability and can be dangerous....
