The new guidelines will likely address issues such as access at street crossings for pedestrians who are blind or have low vision, wheelchair access to on-street parking, and constraints...
Search Results "Blindness"
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A. Background
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Additional Protections from Discrimination
For example, if all students are provided with hard copy textbooks, a student who is blind would need the textbooks in a different format (for example, Braille, large print, or an accessible...
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Equipment and furniture.
The Department also agrees that when federal guidance for accessibility exists for equipment required to be accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision, entities should consult...
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4. What factors should a public school district consider in determining what auxiliary aids or services are necessary to afford qualified students with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate in, and enjoy the benefits of, the public school’s services, programs, or activities?
For a blind student, that student’s textbooks and handouts must be accessible for that student, and all written information used in the classroom should also be read aloud or presented in...
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Web site accessibility. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
access the goods and services offered on the Internet through the Web sites of public accommodations is of great importance to individuals with disabilities, particularly those who are blind...
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BACKGROUND AND JURISDICTION
Section 301(a)(3) of HAVA requires jurisdictions to ensure that their voting system is accessible to individuals with disabilities, including nonvisual accessibility for persons who are blind...
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Tips for Presenters
This is helpful for audience members who are blind or have low vision....
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Category 3 Eligibility
The legislative history mentions four examples: Chronic fatigue, blindness, a lack of cognitive ability to remember and follow directions, or a special sensitivity to temperature....
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Section 1193.23 Product design, development and evaluation (Section-by-Section Analysis)
When an idea is just beginning to take shape, a designer would ask, "How would a blind person use this product? How would a deaf person use it?"...
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a) Curb Ramps
The blind and low-vision community expressed concern that the City would eliminate the half-inch lip present on some of the City's curb ramps....
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Title II and the IDEA
The IDEA and its implementing regulations include 13 disability categories: autism, deaf‐blindness, deafness, emotional disturbance, hearing impairment, intellectual disability, multiple...
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B. Legal foundation for equipment and furniture coverage
With regard to making electronic or information technology equipment and furniture accessible to individuals with disabilities, including individuals who are blind or have low vision, Section...
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Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS): Division of Rehabilitation Services
Services for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing - The unique needs of individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing are served through this specialized unit Services for the Blind and Visually...
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Florida Independent Living Council
Other members include ex-officio representatives of the Division of Voc Rehab and Blind Services....
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Microsoft: Make your PowerPoint presentations accessible
PowerPoint presentations tend to be highly visual, and people who are blind or have low vision can understand them more easily if you create your slides with accessibility in mind....
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Section 36.303 Auxiliary Aids and Services (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
audio-guided tour of a museum exhibit may require the addition of Brailled adhesive labels to the buttons on a reasonable number of the tape players to facilitate their use by individuals who are blind...
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Neil Harbisson: I listen to color | TED Talks
http://www.ted.com Artist Neil Harbisson was born completely color blind, but these days a device attached to his head turns color into audible frequencies....
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Issue 1: APS volume
This can lead to neighborhood as well as user concerns, since excessive volume will mask other sounds that are important to pedestrians who are blind (such as the sound of traffic surges...
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B. Major Provisions
This provision is necessary so that movie patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, can find out which movies are accessible to them....
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A. The ADA and Its Legislative History
movies with closed movie captioning and audio description, as well as the individual devices to provide those accessibility features to movie patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind...
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Movie Theater (Section-by-Section Analysis)
advances in auxiliary aids and services that enable movie theaters to screen movies in a manner that provides effective communication to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing or blind...
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Airport Kiosk Accessibility
Such assistance might include assisting a passenger who is blind in using an inaccessible automated kiosk or assisting a passenger who has total loss of the use of his/her limbs in using...
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5. Qualified handicapped person
Under such a literal reading, a blind person possessing all the qualifications for driving a bus except sight could be said to be “otherwise qualified” for the job of driving....
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1.5. Major Provisions of Final Rule
This provision is necessary so that movie patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, can find out which movies are accessible to them....
