A family, including a woman with a service animal, arrives at a shelter. A man using a wheelchair enters a paratransit van provided so he can evacuate from his home....
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Making Community Emergency Preparedness and Response Programs Accessible to People with Disabilities
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§100.20 Person in the business of selling or renting dwellings
) Within the preceding twelve months, has participated as agent, other than in the sale of his or her own personal residence, in providing sales or rental facilities or sales or rental services...
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Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness: Tactile Mapping for Cultural and Entertainment Venues
This paper has been supported by the National Center on Accessibility, the National Park Service and the U.S....
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Real-Time Communication Etiquette for Communicating with Customers with Disabilities
Real-Time Communication Etiquette for Communicating with Customers with Disabilities Today, a lot of customer service takes place with voice calls over the telephone and Internet; however...
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6. ADA Coordinator
accessibility of facilities under Title II of the ADA, be knowledgeable regarding current federal and state accessibility standards, have a minimum of three years’ experience in providing ADA services...
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11B-704.4 TTYs
Ensure that sufficient electrical service is available where TTYs are to be installed....
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Global Alliance on Accessible Technologies and Environments (GAATES)
GAATES obtained consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in 2008....
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Issue 13: How can energy codes and LEED™ “Points” be made compatible with lighting design criteria that accommodate low vision persons?
Last week I was contacted by the Oregon Department of Energy talking about the 2012 code, which they are already writing. I go, “But the new code hasn’t even started!”...
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29. Admission and recruitment
effect on handicapped persons unless it has been validated as a predictor of academic success and alternate tests or criteria with a less disproportionate, adverse effect are shown by the Department...
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World Deaf Architecture
Establishment of WDA – A new created group for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) – started in early 2015 in association with AIA Department of Diversity and Emerging Professionals...
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Chapter 1: Background
Independent transfer was operationally defined as a transfer by which the individual requires no human assistance to perform. ...
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Convenience Food Restaurants
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has required restaurants to accept orders at pick-up windows when the communications system is not accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing....
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Evaluating the Accessibility of a Meeting Site
Department of Justice website www.ada.gov or by calling 800-514-0301 (voice) or 800-514-0383 ...
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11B-103 Equivalent facilitation
With the exception of transit facilities, which are covered by regulations issued by the Department of Transportation, there is no process for certifying that an alternative design provides...
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206.3 Location
Additionally, accessible vertical interior circulation must be in the same area as stairs and escalators, not isolated in the back of the facility Note to Reader: The Department of...
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1. LEGAL ISSUES
will vary, depending in part upon the purpose for the standard and the technological capacity to closely adhere to the target dimensions." 2 1 Letter from the State of California Department...
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Q5.) What dimensions and conditions can practitioners reasonably consider to be compliant when the conditions, as constructed, do not meet the technical requirements exactly and there are no official, published, industry-developed tolerances?
In consent decrees, the Department of Justice has often ignored slopes in the direction of travel when no measurement on an accessible route exceeds 5.9% on sloped walking surfaces, 8.9%...
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Dispersion
Ensuring that accessible slips are available to persons with disabilities is an operational issue and operators should contact the Department of Justice for further information....
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Ticket pricing. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The proposed rule codifies the Department's longstanding policy that public accommodations cannot impose a surcharge for wheelchair spaces. ...
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32. Housing
The Department concurs with this position and will interpret this section accordingly. A number of colleges and universities reacted negatively to paragraph (b) of this section....
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Executive Order 12606, The Family
However, the Department believes that the benefits provided to families by housing that is in compliance with the Fair Housing Amendments Act outweigh the possible increased costs of housing...
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QUESTION: WHAT CONSTITUTES AN ALTERATION TO A PLATFORM FOR PURPOSES OF TRIGGERING THE APPLICATION OF SECTION 37.42 REQUIREMENTS?
The General Counsel of the Department of Transportation has reviewed this document and approved it as consistent with the language and intent of 49 CFR Part 37....
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4. Results
Section 4.2 presents the sensitivity analyses for which input variables have been varied where uncertainty exists in the Department’s data. ...
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I. BACKGROUND
On July 8, 2013, the Department notified the City that it was investigating the job application procedures of the City. ...
