Auxiliary Aids and Services The ADA uses the term “auxiliary aids and services” (“aids and services”) to refer to the ways to communicate with people who have communication disabilities...
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1. New Curb Ramp Construction and Alterations
The City began installing curb ramps in the 1970s, and created formal design standards for curb ramp construction in the 1980s, prior to the enactment of the ADA....
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The Brewer Company, LLC
The Access Board based its proposal on provisions in the 2004 ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for architectural features that involve transfers (e.g., toilet seats, shower seats, dressing...
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"Qualified Interpreter'' (Section-by-Section Analysis)
On review of this issue, the Department has decided against imposing a certification requirement under the ADA. It is sufficient under the ADA that the interpreter be qualified....
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A. Accessible Voting Program
Harris County will take all reasonable and necessary steps to effectuate its obligation to comply with the ADA with respect to its voting program and this Agreement. ...
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Equipment and furniture. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Because the ADA does not apply directly to the manufacture of products, the Department lacks the authority to issue design requirements for equipment designed exclusively for use in private...
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Sales and Service Counters
The ADA Standards for Accessible Design provide detailed information on the requirements for checkout aisles and for sales and service counters....
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C. Developing an Action Plan For Providing Accessible Websites
This technical assistance document is available on the ADA Home Page atwww.ada.gov. VI....
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Communication Issues for Employers with Maximum Leave Policies
including short- and long-term disability leave programs, it should ensure that any automatic form letters generated by these providers comply with the employer's obligations under the ADA...
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Toilet Room Doors
These floor plans showed typical examples that met the minimum requirements of the proposed ADA Standards....
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A. Purpose and Legal Authority
Private parties, including individuals with disabilities, have also entered into settlement agreements with health care providers to enforce the ADA and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation...
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Background:
Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulation at 49 CFR § 37.43(a)(1), provides that when a public entity “alters an existing facility or a part of...
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B. Coverage limitations
It is the Department´s intention to regulate only governmental entities and public accommodations covered by the ADA that provide goods, services, programs, or activities to the public via...
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Emergency Preparedness
Making sure that people with disabilities have full access to state and local government emergency preparedness and response programs is a critical part of ADA obligations. ...
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Integration
A primary goal of the ADA is the equal participation and integration of people with disabilities in the mainstream of American life....
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1022.9 Stairway identification signs
Neither the "Floor Identification Signs" nor the "Fire Department Signs" are required by 2010 ADAS. Note also that neither of these signs is required at open stairways....
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Section 36.403 Alterations: Path of Travel (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Another commenter asked that the safe harbor be revised to include pre-ADA facilities that have been made compliant with the 1991 Standards to the extent "readily achievable'' or, in the...
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409.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
This proposed exception is based on an exception to the requirements for speech output at Automated Teller Machines and Fare Vending Machines in the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines....
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Providing Appropriate Information About Accessibility
Don't use the terms "ADA," "partially," "barrier free," or "handicapped." Provide specific details about what people can expect to encounter....
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III-4.4600 Seating in assembly areas
The ADA accessibility standard for alterations requires wheelchair seating to be dispersed (i.e. , provided in more than one location) only in assembly areas with fixed seating for more...
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Glossary of Acronyms
ACB American Council of the Blind ACCD American Coalition of Citizens with Disabilities ACLU American Civil Liberties Union ADA...
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IV. DEFINITIONS
"Disability" will be defined as it is in the ADA, 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1). See also 28 C.F.R. § 35.108....
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Telephones
According to the ADA regulations, meeting facilities that provide equipment for participants to make outgoing calls on “more than an incidental convenience basis” must provide the same opportunity...