The Veterans’ Rehabilitation Act of 1918 established a program for training veterans with disabilities....
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Contours of Disability in America
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Continuity: ADA Standard Section 505.3
Section 505.3 covers the current ADA Standards for the continuity of handrails.
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Introduction
INTRODUCTION The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), which was amended by the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 ("Amendments Act" or "ADAAA"), is a federal law...
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D. Notification – Alerting the Public to an Emergency
Officials must act quickly to alert the public to an impending emergency situation. But many traditional emergency notification methods are not accessible to people with disabilities....
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Issue: Law Enforcement Policies, Practices, and Procedures
Similarly, individuals with epilepsy or diabetes may be placed at great risk if they are not permitted access to their medications....
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Captioning (Advisory Guidance)
Closed captioning refers to assistive technology designed to provide access to television for persons with hearing disabilities that is visible only through the use of a decoder....
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Growth of the Disability Rights Movement
Congress built on this Act in 1980 with the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act, which gave the Federal Government authority to sue local operators of institutions that consistently...
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Tax Benefits for Businesses Who Have Employees with Disabilities
Disabled Access Credit The Disabled Access Credit provides a non-refundable credit for small businesses that incur expenditures for the purpose of providing access to persons with disabilities...
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III. PROTECTING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ADA
Following earlier decisions holding that Congress may remove States' immunity only when acting pursuant to its powers under the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court in Garrett held that Title...
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12201(c) Insurance
--Titles I through IV of this Act shall not be construed to prohibit or restrict --...
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12112(d)(3)(B)(III)
(III) government officials investigating compliance with this Act shall be provided relevant information on request; and...
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§ 36.503(a)
(a) Any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination in violation of the Act or this part; or...
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Sec.36.503(a)
(a) Any person or group of persons is engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination in violation of the Act or this part; or...
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§1630.4(a)(2)
(2) The term discrimination includes, but is not limited to, the acts described in §§1630.4 through 1630.13 of this part....
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How is a charge of discrimination filed?
., disability, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, retaliation); the issue or issues involved in the alleged discriminatory act(s) (e.g., hiring, promotion, wages,...
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8.2 Expanding Medical Equipment Covered
Access Board’s MDE initiative will work hand-in-hand with the existing requirements under the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which already require health...
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Section 1194.3 General Exceptions (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
This exception is statutory under section 508 and is consistent with a similar exception in section 5142 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996....
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382.21 May carriers limit access to transportation on the basis that a passenger has a communicable disease or other medical condition?
382.21 May carriers limit access to transportation on the basis that a passenger has a communicable disease or other medical condition?...
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Chapter 4: Hardware (Section-by-Section Analysis)
vision), the product-by-product based structure of the guidelines results in a multiplicity of accessibility requirements....
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12206(d)(1)
.-- Each Federal agency that has responsibility under subsection (c)(2) for implementing this Act may make grants or award contracts to effectuate the purposes of this section, subject to...
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When do the ADA's employment enforcement provisions become effective?
The alleged discriminatory act(s) must have occurred on or after July 26, 1992. Charges can be filed against employers with 15 or more employees beginning July 26, 1994....
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§ 36.606(d)
(d) When the standards of the Act against which a code is deemed equivalent are substantially revised or amended, a certification of equivalency issued under the preexisting standards is...
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§ 36.606(d)
(d) When the standards of the Act against which a code is deemed equivalent are revised or amended substantially, a certification of equivalency issued under the preexisting standards is...
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Each bank of public telephones must have one or more wheelchair accessible telephones and these and other public telephones must have the ability to amplify the volume at the handset.
• Each bank of public telephones must have one or more wheelchair accessible telephones and these and other public telephones must have the ability to amplify the volume at the handset....
