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4.1.1(5)
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Overview of Proposed Guidelines
The proposed guidelines ensure that the following facilities for pedestrian circulation and use located in the public right-of- way are readily accessible to and usable by pedestrians with...
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Wheeled Mobility Anthropometry Project
The Access Board and the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research sponsored a Wheeled Mobility Anthropometry Project to collect measurements of approximately 500 people...
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502.3.1 Object Information (Section-by-Section Analysis)
502.3.1 Object Information (Section-by-Section Analysis) This section proposes that particular programming elements—namely object role, state, boundary, name, and description—must be...
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New Construction
New Construction The 2010 Standards, which set requirements for fixed elements and spaces, require that all new pool facilities built by State and local governments, public accommodations...
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208.2.5.1
208.2.5.1 There must be one accessible parking space in the immediate vicinity of a publicly owned or leased building that houses a governmental entity or a political subdivision, including...
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B.4.i. - What is assistive technology?
Assistive technology is adaptive equipment that people with disabilities commonly use for information and communication access. See 36 CFR 1194.4....
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Exhibit Design Relating to Low Vision and Blindness Summary Report: Research on Effective Use of Tactile Exhibits with Touch Activated Audio Description for the Blind and Low Vision Audience
This paper has been supported by the National Center on Accessibility, the National Park Service and the U.S....
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101.4.5 Fire prevention
ETA Editor's Note Sections from the California Building Code Chapter 1 that are not adopted by the Division of the State Architect - Access Compliance (DSA-AC) have been omitted....
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ATA - Alliance for Technology Access
The mission of the ATA is to increase the use of technology by children and adults with disabilities and functional limitations. ATA encourages and facilitates the empowerment of...
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Tactile Design for Universal Access
Touch Graphics, Inc. was established in 1997 to refine and commercialize methods for tactile graphics production that were first demonstrated by Karen Luxton Gourgey and the Computer...
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E103.4 Defined Terms (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The definition of the term “agency” would be revised to expressly include agencies and departments of the United States as defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502 and the U.S. Postal Service....
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EQUIVALENT FACILITATION
The use of designs, products, or technologies as alternatives to those prescribed, resulting in substantially equivalent or greater accessibility and usability....
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1. Standing Supports
(Significant Changes – Positioning Supports), the Access Board has elected not to include positioning supports for mammography equipment in the final rule....
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14. Q: Our center has a policy that we will not give medication to any child. Can I refuse to give medication to a child with a disability?
In some circumstances, it may be necessary to give medication to a child with a disability in order to make a program accessible to that child....
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4. Do the carpet requirements of Section 302.2 apply to ground level accessible routes within a play area?
Do the carpet requirements of Section 302.2 apply to ground level accessible routes within a play area? No....
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Resource Center for Accessible Living, Inc. (RCAL) - Kingston, NY
Resource Center for Accessible Living, Inc. (RCAL) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, community based service and advocacy organization run by and for people with any type of disability. ...
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Accessible Polling Places for the Visually Impaired: A Compilation of Survey Results
The Help America Vote Act mandated that all polling places have an accessible method of voting that provides privacy and independence....
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B.5.i. - What is nonavailability?
Nonavailability refers to circumstances where no commercial items are available that meet the applicable Access Board’s technical provisions (directly or through equivalent facilitation)...
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G.6.iii. - Can "significant expense" be established simply by demonstrating that a product that meets the applicable technical provisions is significantly more expensive than one that does not?
In determining whether acquisition of EIT that meets all or part of the applicable technical provisions of the Access Board's standards would impose an undue burden, an agency must consider...
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C. Executive Order 13132: Federalism
The proposed 255 Guidelines apply to manufacturers of telecommunications equipment and customer premises equipment and require that equipment is designed, developed, and fabricated to be accessible...
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C102.1 Incorporation by Reference
Copies of the referenced standards may be inspected at the Access Board’s office, 1331 F Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004....
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E102.1 Incorporation by Reference
Copies of the referenced standards may be inspected at the Access Board’s office, 1331 F Street, NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004....
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Why are detectable warnings no longer required for all curb ramps or at hazardous vehicular areas?
In the last update, the ADA Standards were revised to focus more clearly on facilities located on sites in recognition of separate criteria the Access Board is developing for public rights-of-ways...
