Here you’ll find a database of articles written by parents who want to share with others what they’ve learned about playing with and teaching a blind child, as well as links to meaningful...
Search Results "Blindness"
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WonderBaby.org
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ADA Checklist for Existing Facilities
nondiscriminatory policies and practices and for the provision of auxiliary aids and services, such as sign language interpreters for people who are deaf and material in Braille for people who are blind...
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Movie captioning. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Department also stated that options were being considered to require movie theater owners and operators to exhibit movies with video description,3 a technology that enables individuals who are blind...
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b) Library Program
Library also offers a range of non-structural solutions to ensure access to its programs and events, including assistive technologies, books by mail, a Library on Wheels, a Library for the Blind...
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ii. Web accessibility under the ADA
See National Federation of the Blind v. Target Corp., 452 F. Supp. 2d 946, 953 (N.D....
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Section 35.160 Communications (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In such situations, if the companion is deaf or hard of hearing, blind, has low vision, or has a disability that affects his or her speech, it is the public entity's responsibility to provide...
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Basic Principles
A county parks and recreation department cannot require people who are blind or have vision loss to be accompanied by a companion when hiking on a public trail....
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Determining appropriate auxiliary aids. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Many advocacy groups, particularly those representing blind individuals and those with low vision, urged the Department to add language in the final rule requiring the provision of accessible...
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Ticket sales. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Several commenters questioned whether ticket Web sites themselves must be accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision, and if so, what that requires....
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Tips on Completing Emergency Health Information
I am blind, please tell me what you are doing before doing it. I read Braille and I need paper work read to me. I have a panic condition. ...
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"Video Remote Interpreting" (VRI) Services (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department recognizes that in these and other situations, such as where communication is needed for persons who are deaf-blind, it may be necessary to summon an in-person interpreter...
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"Service Animal" (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Examples of work or tasks include, but are not limited to, assisting individuals who are blind or have low vision with navigation and other tasks, alerting individuals who are deaf or hard...
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Ticket sales. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Several commenters questioned whether ticket websites themselves must be accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision, and if so, what that requires....
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Panda TS.83 Thermally Broken Multi-Slide Door System
A unique option in this system is 1 1/2″ insulated glass with automated blinds between the glass....
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Executive Summary
specifically address the obligations of public accommodations that own, operate, or lease movie theaters to provide equally effective communication to patrons who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind...
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1. Injury in Fact
Council of the Blind v. Cnty. of Alameda, 985 F. Supp. 2d 1229, 1240 (N.D....
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II. COMPLIANCE WITH TITLE III OF THE ADA
., Beta testing), such changes shall be tested by individuals with different disabilities, including at a minimum individuals who are blind, deaf, and/or have physical disabilities affecting...
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Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.1 (June 2018)
Following these guidelines will make content more accessible to a wider range of people with disabilities, including accommodations for blindness and low vision, deafness and hearing loss...
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Alpha One - South Portland, Bangor, Presque Isle, ME
Alpha One annually assists more than 6,000 people of all ages, including children and the elderly, with a range of disabilities: mobility impairments, traumatic brain injury, deafness, blindness...
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ADA25: #19 of 25 -- K-12
There were three other similar cases: one deaf student needed an FM system, another deaf student needed a sign language interpreter, and one blind student needed Braille materials....
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1. Captioning and Audio Description for Analog Movies
Audio description makes movies more accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision by providing narrated information about key visual elements of the movie, such as actions,...
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Differences in Perspectives between Designers/Photographers and Visually Impaired Occupants
In 1995, the Rural National Institute for the Blind in the U.K. published Building Sight: A Handbook of Building and Interior Design Solutions to include the needs of visually impaired persons...
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Department of HHS Dear Colleague Letter: Guidance and Resources for Electronic Information Technology: Ensuring Equal Access to All Health Services and Benefits Provided Through Electronic Means
and General Counsel, Case Western Reserve University (Dec. 22, 2009), available at https://www.ada.gov/case_western_univ.htm; Settlement Agreement Between the National Federation of the Blind...
