Klein, Chief of the NCHS Health Promotion Statistics Branch, found that there are about 21 million adults in the United States that are visually impaired, and about 36 million (17 percent) have...
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E. Increasing Numbers of Individuals with Hearing and Vision Impairments
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5.2.1.1 Transfer Surface Width Recommendations for M301
The results of the AWM Project indicated that a seating surface could have a width of 28 inches and accommodate the 95th percentile of the population of wheeled mobility device users studied...
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7.2 Technological and Scientific Considerations
Most MRI devices today have magnetic fields of 1.5 T (Tesla) and greater....
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Physical Accessibility
For example, if stairs lead to the upper floors of a school and the school does not have an elevator, ramp, or chair lift, and a student with a disability is unable to traverse the stairs...
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General comments regarding safe harbor. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
One disability rights group commented that proposing new standards without a safe harbor would penalize compliant businesses, who would have to pay for retrofits twice, and reward scofflaws...
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THREATS AND HAZARDS IN NEW YORK CITY
Although NYC does not sit on a major fault line, earthquakes can and have affected the area....
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If Carrier Contends That Attendant Is Required for Safety Reasons and Passenger Disagrees
[Sec. 382.35(d)] For purposes of determining whether a seat is available for an attendant, the attendant must be deemed to have checked in at the same time as the passenger with a disability...
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Seating Accommodations for Passengers with a Disability Other than one of the Four Types Listed Above
At the time of the call, all four of the other “non-priority” bulkhead seats have been assigned to other passengers, but the two “priority” seats are unassigned. What should you do?...
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Web site accessibility. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
urged the Department to require specifically that entities that provide goods or services on the Internet make their Websites accessible, regardless of whether or not these entities also have...
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Costs Not Monetized in the Formal Analysis
Finally, with respect to costs to individuals who do not have disabilities, a very tall person, for example, may be inconvenienced by having to reach further for a lowered light switch....
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Getting to the Water—Beach Access Routes
However, the number of beach access routes doesn't have to exceed the number of pedestrian beach access points that are provided....
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1.1 Knowing Your Rights and Responsibilities
be required to meet ADA building requirements (for its parking, entrance, bathrooms, etc,) and also required to provide full access to services, which means that when needed, they would have...
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2.3. Upfront Costs
Some movie theaters have already equipped their auditoriums to provide closed movie captioning or audio description. ...
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3.1.1. Total Number of U.S Auditoriums (2015)
Among indoor auditoriums, an estimated 38,688 have converted to digital projection systems and 650 auditoriums still use analog projection systems.12 Â However, auditoriums showing analog...
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Impact Annenuation [sic]
The silicone, latex, and unstabilized EWF have statistically indistinguishable impact performance....
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Tips for Presenters
This is helpful for audience members who are blind or have low vision....
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CONCLUSIONS
• Ambulatory subjects with mobility limitations (with and without assistive devices) have higher energy costs on the surfaces that are objectively measured as firm and stable, which...
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Station 5-Lateral Operating Space (Sweep Width)
A person who swerves left and right (such as an inline skater) will occupy more lateral space, and have a wider sweep width, than a person whose movements are parallel to the edges of the...
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VI. REPORTING AND MONITORING
The third-party Facilitator shall have the powers to obtain from either party any non-privileged documents or information relevant to implementation of this Agreement, and to serve as a...
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Costs Not Monetized in the Formal Analysis
Finally, with respect to costs to individuals who do not have disabilities, a very tall person, for example, may be inconvenienced by having to reach further for a lowered light switch....
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Category 3 Eligibility
Category 3Â Eligibility The third eligibility criterion concerns individuals who have a specific impairment-related condition which prevents them from getting to or from a stop or station...
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Support Network (RASN) - Orlando, FL
For patients that have experienced RA symptoms for years, it may seem difficult or even impossible to reduce daily pain....
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Memphis Center for Independent Living (MCIL) - Memphis, TN
Americans with disabilities have not had access to transportation, housing and employment that other citizens have enjoyed; MCIL will change that....
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World Institute on Disability (WID)
WID’s mission is realized when there is full employment at the same rate as the general population; the barriers to asset building are removed, and people with disabilities have the tools...
