The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires businesses that serve the public to remove barriers from older buildings and to design and build new facilities to provide access to customers...
Search Results "CRIPA: Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act"
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Introduction
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Future Work
Future studies should look into the effects of variable ‘side guard’ widths, heights, contours and shapes to see if it such as structure could act more as a benefit versus a hindrance to...
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Overview
Providing equal opportunity to people with disabilities is the fundamental principle of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....
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1016.4 Passing Spaces
inches minimum by 60 inches minimum; or The intersection of two outdoor recreation access routes providing a T-shaped space complying with 304.3.2 of the Architectural Barriers Act...
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II-8.3000 Transition plan
What if a public entity has already done a transition plan under section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?...
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Section 36.404 Alterations: Elevator Exemption (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Section 36.404 Alterations: Elevator Exemption Section 36.404 implements the elevator exemption in section 303(b) of the Act as it applies to altered facilities....
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Falls and Injuries
So talking about falls: Just in general, if you look at the epidemiology literature, there was actually a Safety and Seniors Act that was passed in 2007 or 2008....
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Data Collection Procedures
The playground surface products considered for this study had to initially meet the requirements of the 2010 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Standards for Accessible Design and the...
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2. Movie Patrons With Hearing and Vision Disabilities
Several commenters on the 2014 NPRM objected to the Department's reliance on Census data and argued that such reliance caused the Department to overstate the number of persons with hearing...
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Section 1193.33 Information, documentation and training [1193.25 in the NPRM] (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Of course, if instructions are provided by videotape, appropriate video description would be needed for persons who are blind and captions would be needed for persons who are deaf or hard...
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5.8.2 Knee and Toe Clearance Recommendations under Breast Platform Recommendations
dimensions recommended by the Wheeled Mobility Anthropometry Project are based on an anthropomorphic model that defines knee and toe clearances based on measurements from the tip of a person’s...
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503.3 Alternative User Interfaces (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Examples of alternative user interfaces include on-screen keyboards for a single switch user, and screen reading software for a person who is blind....
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E101.2 Equivalent Facilitation (Section-by-Section Analysis)
to the proposed technical requirements in Chapters 4 and 5, but only if the alternative design or technology provides substantially equivalent or greater accessibility and usability by persons...
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307.2 Protrusion Limits
When a cane is used and the element is in the detectable range, it gives a person sufficient time to detect the element with the cane before there is body contact....
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Accessibility of Job Information
Printed job information in an employment office or on employee bulletin boards should be made available, as needed, to persons with visual or other reading impairments....
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A. General Requirements for Telephone Emergency Service Providers
Equal access means that the telephone emergency services provided for TTY users are as effective as those provided for persons who make voice calls, in terms of: response time;...
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Prohibition against surcharges for use of a service animal. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Commenters also noted that service animal users cannot be required to comply with other requirements that are not generally applicable to other persons....
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Readily achievable
be considered include— (1) The nature and cost of the action needed under this part; (2) The overall financial resources of the site or sites involved in the action; the number of persons...
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IV. Eligibility for Goods and Services
Requirements that tend to screen out individuals with disabilities, such as requiring a blind person to produce a driver's license as the sole means of identification for cashing a check...
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D. Summing up: ADA Coordinator, Notice, and Grievance Procedures
If a state or local government has 50 employees or more, it is required to: adopt and distribute a public notice about the relevant provisions of the ADA to all persons who may...
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11B-307.2 Protrusion limits
When a cane is used and the element is in the detectable range, it gives a person sufficient time to detect the element with the cane before there is body contact....
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Reasonable Accommodation
Nor is an employer obligated to provide personal use items, such as glasses or hearing aids, as accommodations....
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What does "current" drug use mean?
A person who tests positive for illegal use of drugs is not entitled to the protection that may be available to former users who have been or are in rehabilitation (see below)....