Key points include: The Americans with Disabilities Act, passed by Congress in 1990, requires that design criteria be established for building and altering commercial and public...
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Appendix B: Overview of Federal Regulations and Guidance for Detectable Warnings
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IV. ALTERATIONS AND NEW CONSTRUCTION
The ADA Plans shall include, at a minimum, the final schematic design, design development documents, and construction documents. ...
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Introduction and Purpose
Introduction and Purpose The ADA is a federal anti-discrimination statute designed to remove barriers which prevent qualified individuals with disabilities from enjoying the same employment...
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Feature 2 - Routes to the Building Entrance
ADA Standards for Accessible Design (http://www.ada.gov/stdspdf.htm) Accessible routes connect accessible onsite features (e.g., bus stop, parking) to the building entrance. ...
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702 Fire Alarm Systems
Comments from the codes community and designers urged the Board to reference the NFPA alarm criteria for purposes of consistency and simplicity, instead of restating very similar requirements...
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2. Electronic (Digital) Level
This formula is useful when designing walkways and other surfaces, but it is not useful when assessing the accessibility of a feature that has already been constructed....
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5. What may an employer do when it learns that an applicant has or had a hearing impairment after she has been offered a job but before she starts working?
The employer also may send the applicant for a follow-up hearing or medical examination or ask her to submit documentation from her doctor answering questions specifically designed to assess...
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Q13: Specific Requirements for Road Alteration Projects by Public Entities that Receive Federal Financial Assistance
These requirements replaced the previously applicable ADA Standards for Accessible Design (1991) (formerly known as 1991 ADAAG). ...
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Federal Aviation Administration Draft Advisory Circular 150/5360-14A, Access to Airports by Individuals with Disabilities
This Advisory Circular (AC) is designed to assist airports in complying with the laws and regulations regarding individuals with disabilities by: (1) identifying the relevant statutes and...
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Overview
These requirements, or rules, clarify and refine issues that have arisen over the past 20 years and contain new, and updated, requirements, including the 2010 Standards for Accessible Design...
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Visual Alarms
Instead, the final rule only requires that work areas be designed so that compliant visual appliances can be integrated into the alarm system (215.3)....
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IV. NON-DISCRIMINATION IN FUTURE QUIKTRIP FACILITIES
QuikTrip shall ensure that each facility designed, constructed, purchased, leased, or otherwise acquired by or on behalf of QuikTrip ("Future QuikTrip Stores") shall comply in all respects...
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3. Swimming Pools
Although she believed that Garfield is designated as accessible, it is not. See RT 1234:10-12; DTX F16. 158....
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4. The Agreements’ Dispute Resolution Mechanism is Burdensome and Unlikely to Afford Complete Relief to Class Members
In sum, the dispute resolution scheme is highly weighted in favor of Settling Defendants and are designed to delay effective relief under the terms of the Agreements....
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D. TERMS OF AGREEMENT
ensure that all of its alterations, additions, newly installed exhibitions and new construction are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities and also ensure that it designs...
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2. New Construction and Alterations
dimensional requirements in newly constructed or renovated facilities identified by Kirola's experts do not establish any systemic deficiency in the City's policies or practices for the design...
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Significant alternatives which minimize any significant economic impacts on small entities
Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and the Architectural Barriers Act to eliminate the discriminatory effects of architectural, transportation, and communication barriers in the design...
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Table 1.2 Organizational Members of the Medical Diagnostic Equipment Accessibility Standards Advisory Committee
Department of Veterans Affairs, Dennis Hancher and Zoltan Nagy Access Board Representative and Staff Matthew McCollough, Board Member Liaison Rex Pace, Designated Federal Office...
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Cross Slope (R302.6) (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Pedestrian street crossings without yield or stop control are crossings where there is no yield or stop sign, or where there is a traffic signal that is designed for the green phase....
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Subpart D—Preschool, Elementary, and Secondary Education
These requirements are designed to ensure that no handicapped child is excluded from school on the basis of handicap and, if a recipient demonstrates that placement in a regular educational...
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10. How do the IDEA FAPE and the Title II effective communication requirements differ with regard to the obligation to provide communication for students with disabilities attending public elementary and secondary schools?
Under the IDEA, FAPE must be individually designed to provide meaningful educational benefit to the child.40 The IDEA does not require that a district compare the effectiveness of communications...
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Bathroom
Congressional statements emphasized that the Act's accessibility requirements were expected to have a minimal effect on the size and design of dwelling units....
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Inaccessible Town Program
directions to the nearest accessible entrance Towns making modifications to a building or facility to provide program accessibility must comply with the ADA Standards for Accessible Design...
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QUESTION: WHEN A RAIL OPERATOR CONSTRUCTS A NEW STATION PLATFORM OR ALTERS AN EXISTING STATION PLATFORM, DOES 49 CFR PART 37 REQUIRE THE RAIL OPERATOR ENSURE THAT THE PLATFORM IS AT LEAST 8 INCHES ABOVE TOP OF RAIL, EVEN IF THE RAILROAD OPERATOR WILL PROVIDE ACCESSIBILITY CONSISTENT WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF SECTION 37.42?
ANSWER: Public entities, such as Amtrak and commuter operators, must construct a new facility for use in designated public transportation so that it is readily accessible to and...