The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires all Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) to provide direct, equal access to their services for people with disabilities who use teletypewriters...
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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Access for 9-1-1 and Telephone Emergency Services
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FCE & Post-Offer Testing in the Era of ADA Title I
Department of Justice enforcement of Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act make today’s testing protocols a federal civil rights issue....
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FREED Center for Independent Living - Grass Valley, Marysville, CA
funders include Agency on Aging Area 4, California Department of Rehabilitation, US Administration of Community Living, SCAN Foundation, Dignity Health Foundation, Mental Health Services Act...
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CDHP: Quality Services for People with Disabilities and Activity Limitations
Part 2 looks briefly at the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and how it impacts health care services....
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Accessible Route
Such a formula would incorporate predictions of tidal level changes such as those issued by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States Geologic...
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3. Conversion to Digital Cinema
See Testimony of John Fithian, President and CEO of the National Association of Theater Owners, Before the U.S....
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Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision
General Services Administration (GSA), and by the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) in Washington, DC....
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Issue 15: How can the potential conflict between the goals of zero net energy and accessibility for low vision persons be resolved?
Response by Marsha Mazz: Just spend five minutes with me and the National Association of Homebuilders and you’ll see that....
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Age-related Data
So if you’re trying to build a model based on a national average, the other studies would really give you a better picture....
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The Revised Guidelines (2004 ADAAG)
The Access Board provided further opportunity for participation by holding public hearings throughout the nation. ...
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The Revised Guidelines (2004 ADAAG)
The Access Board provided further opportunity for participation by holding public hearings throughout the nation. ...
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Executive Order 13132: Federalism
The Department is now soliciting comments from elected state and local officials and their representative national organizations through this NPRM. ...
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Assistive Listening Systems
Find more information on assistive listening systems from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) and the Hearing Loss Association of America....
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Executive Order 13132
Through the ANPRM and NPRM processes, the Department solicited comments from elected State and local officials and their representative national organizations about the potential federalism...
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Mark J. Mazz, AIA: Architectural Consultant on Accessibility
And what I find that I do best is defining what is required for accessibility, particularly with the ADA or the Fair Housing Act, or even the Architectural Barriers Act....
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Texas Board of Architectural Examiners (TBAE)
In 1999 the 76th Legislature enacted a law known as the Self-Directed Semi-Independent Project Act (SDSI)....
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Common Problems with Access to Programs, Generally
Now, people with disabilities drive down the walkway and transfer in and out of their vehicles on the fishing platform....
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Amenities
Exercise machines and equipment shall have a clear floor space complying with 305 positioned for transfer or for use by an individual seated in a wheel chair....
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E. Services in the Cabin
Sec. 382.39(b)(2)]; if there is an on-board wheelchair, using the on-board wheelchair to enable the passenger to move to and from the lavatory which, if requested, could entail transferring...
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Evaluate Your Need to Identify as Someone Who Requires Assistance During an Evacuation
(Bondi 2001) (Juillet 1993) Two men who helped a wheelchair user transfer to an evacuation chair hanging in the stairwell of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and transported...
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1134A.5 Bathtubs
floor space 48 inches parallel by 30 inches perpendicular (1219 mm by 762 mm) to the side of a bathtub or bathtub-shower combination to provide for the maneuvering of a wheelchair and transfer...
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810 Transportation Facilities
The Board has added an exception under which entrance, route, and destination signs do not have to comply with visual and tactile specifications where certain audible sign technologies are...
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II. ENFORCING THE ADA PART 1
Project Civic Access "I want to say that the Americans with Disabilities Act allowed me to get places, gave me more to do....
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Section 5.0 Dissemination Activities
It started as a response to a recognized need for information to advance accessible design and standards development....
