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John Hockenberry: We are all designers | TED Talks
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Biodex Upper Body Cycle
User-Friendly The "Quick-Start" feature gets your first-time cyclists right into their exercises....
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Request for Clarification and Extension of Comment Period
Advocacy organization comments included one airline passenger consumer organization (Association for Airline Passenger Rights) and 11 submissions from disability advocacy organizations (...
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V. DEVELOPMENT OF DISABILITY-RELATED POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
When the hospital is not operating at full inpatient capacity, WHC shall use its best efforts to reserve Accessible Patient Rooms for persons with disabilities and hold them open until all...
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5.5(d) Information that May Be Requested on Application Forms or in Interviews
However, the employer must keep in mind that it cannot refuse to hire a qualified individual with a disability because of this person's need for an accommodation that would be required by...
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14. Child welfare agencies have an obligation to ensure the health and safety of children. How can agencies comply with the ADA and Section 504 while also ensuring health and safety?
parent represents a direct threat to the safety of the child must be based on an individualized assessment and objective facts and may not be based on stereotypes or generalizations about persons...
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Dispersion
This change was not adopted into the IBC, in part due to consideration of persons using wheelchairs who may need accessible communication features....
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Communication Features in Guest Rooms
The guidelines address rooms required to provide communication features accessible to persons who are deaf or hard of hearing, including visual notification of fire alarms, telephone calls...
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Sections 5 Through 9 (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
auxiliary counter, or provide equivalent facilitation through such means as installing a folding shelf on the front of the counter at an accessible height to provide a work surface for a person...
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11B-404.2.7 Door and gate hardware
The lever of lever actuated latches or locks must be curved with a return to within ½ inch of the door to prevent catching on the clothing of persons during egress. ◼...
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Number of Accessible Entrances
Many persons with disabilities urged the Board to increase this scoping so that they have equal access in terms of convenience, entry options, travel distances, and proximity to accessible...
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k) Self-Evaluation/Transition Plan
Section 11135 provides, in pertinent part, that: No person in the State of California shall, on the basis of . . . disability, be unlawfully denied full and equal access to the benefits...
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What other surface considerations affect wheelchair travel?
Because the effects of cross-slope are particularly difficult for persons using wheelchairs--particularly along a steep running slope--ADAAG provisions limit accessible routes to a 2% cross-slope...
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R306.3.2 Pedestrian Activated Signals
The following signals are displayed to pedestrians: a steady upraised hand (symbolizing DON’T WALK) when the flashing or steady yellow signal is operating, then a walking person (symbolizing...
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221.1 General
When wheelchair spaces and companion seats are not required to accommodate persons eligible for those spaces and seats, individual, removable seats may be placed in those spaces and seats...
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Dissemination activities
Access board meetings This study was present at the US Access Board In-Person Meeting in Chicago, Illinois during September 2010....
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43. Must an employer modify the work hours of an employee with a disability if doing so would prevent other employees from performing their jobs?
There are certain tasks that the entire group must perform together, but each person also has individual assignments....
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Highest and Lowest Heights Obtained
For protocols A and B one person could transfer to the maximum height of the station (43 inches) and was an outlier in the study. ...
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SHELTERS + SERVICE CENTERS
Depending on the emergency, service centers may provide any of the following: Housing assistance Identification replacement Assistance with personal property...
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8. How do I determine if it is readily achievable for me to install a lift in my existing pool?
readily achievable,” the following factors should be considered: 1) The nature and cost of the action; 2) The overall financial resources of the site or sites involved; the number of persons...
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502.6.1
controlling jurisdiction for other spaces and prominently outlined with blue paint, and must be repainted when necessary, to be clearly distinguishable as a parking space designated for persons...
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Assessment Factors
It is important to understand that these assessment factors relate to an entire class of device type, not to how a person with a disability might operate the device....
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Never Assume You have been Included in Emergency Plans
For example, people with physical disabilities may have reduced ability to get to accessible exits, as well as reduced access to their personal items and emergency supplies....
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Attitudes
For example: Individual with disability vs. crippled Wheelchair user vs. wheelchair bound Person with multiple sclerosis vs....
