This article describes some of the barriers experienced by people with mobility and visual disabilities when they use fitness facilities and it shows you ways to remove or reduce these barriers...
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2010 ADA Definition
Individual with a Disability: Individual with a disability means a person who has a disability. The term "individual with a disability" does not include an individual who is currently engaging in the illegal use of drugs, when the private entity acts on the basis of such use.
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1.2 How This Article Can Help You
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5.4 Dining Areas
accessible seating area; 2) the same services and decor are provided in an accessible space usable by the general public; and, 3) the accessible areas are not restricted to use by people with disabilities...
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III-4.2400 Check-out aisles
If a store has check-out aisles, customers with disabilities must be provided an equivalent level of convenience in access to check-out facilities as customers without disabilities....
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REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES, COSTS AND EXPENSES
REASONABLE ATTORNEYS’ FEES, COSTS AND EXPENSES The settlement class is represented by Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns, LLP, Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho, the Disability...
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208.1.1
If compliance would cause the barrier removal not to be readily achievable, a facility may provide parking spaces at alternative locations for persons who have disabilities and provide appropriate...
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11B-1002.6 Transfer devices for use with amusement rides
Transfer devices for use with amusement rides should permit individuals to make independent transfers to and from their wheelchairs or mobility devices....
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1002.6 Transfer Devices for Use with Amusement Rides
Transfer devices for use with amusement rides should permit individuals to make independent transfers to and from their wheelchairs or mobility devices....
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Accessible Ground Surfaces
This standard assesses the accessibility of a surface by measuring the work an individual must exert to propel a wheelchair across the surface....
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4. Wheelchair seat depth
Individual wheelchair seat depths are generally about 2 in. less than buttock-popliteal length in most case – this is a rough guideline and is quite similar to deciding seat depths for ambulatory...
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Seat Width Evaluation
The additional platform width may also have been needed to accommodate larger individuals; however the size of the individual and seat width of the wheelchair were not measured and therefore...
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1.1.6
This includes localized variations in slope as well as bumpiness created by small, individual units such as bricks, concrete pavers, or wood slats....
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11B-1002.6 Transfer devices for use with amusement rides
Transfer devices for use with amusement rides should permit individuals to make independent transfers to and from their wheelchairs or mobility devices....
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Section 37.153 FTA Waiver Determination
Since each waiver will be granted based on individual circumstances, the Department does not deem it appropriate to specify a generally applicable duration for a waiver....
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11B-1002.6 Transfer devices for use with amusement rides
Transfer devices for use with amusement rides should permit individuals to make independent transfers to and from their wheelchairs or mobility devices....
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1002.6 Transfer Devices for Use with Amusement Rides
Transfer devices for use with amusement rides should permit individuals to make independent transfers to and from their wheelchairs or mobility devices....
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1002.6 Transfer Devices for Use with Amusement Rides
Transfer devices for use with amusement rides should permit individuals to make independent transfers to and from their wheelchairs or mobility devices....
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Safe Harbor is applied element by element in existing facilities
From my conversations with technical assistance staff at the US Access Board and the Department of Justice's Disability Rights Section, examples of "elements" in their opinion, would include...
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§382.51(b)(2)
any combination of facility accessibility, auxiliary aids, equipment, the assistance of personnel, or other appropriate means consistent with the safety and dignity of passengers with a disability...
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1630.6(a)
covered entity to participate in a contractual or other arrangement or relationship that has the effect of subjecting the covered entitys [sic] own qualified applicant or employee with a disability...
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Stage or Dais
It is insulting to ask a speaker with a mobility-related disability to be the only person to present from below stage level....
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§382.29(b)
(b) You may require a passenger with a disability in one of the following categories to travel with a safety assistant as a condition of being provided air transportation, if you determine...
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§382.33(a)
(a) As a carrier, you must not subject passengers with a disability to restrictions that do not apply to other passengers, except as otherwise permitted in this part (e.g., advance notice...
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12101(a)(6)
(6) census data, national polls, and other studies have documented that people with disabilities, as a group, occupy an inferior status in our society, and are severely disadvantaged socially...
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Is Identification of the Path(s) to the Means of Egress Necessary?
However, the ability of a person with a cognitive disability to find and use the exits should be verified....