This includes not only people who use wheeled mobility aids, but also those who may walk with difficulty or use walkers, canes, crutches, braces, or prostheses....
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2010 ADA Definition
Walk: An exterior prepared surface for pedestrian use, including pedestrian areas such as plazas and courts.
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Hospitals and Rehabilitation Facilities Specializing in the Treatment of Conditions Affecting Mobility
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Gratings [4.5.4]
These requirements apply to gratings located in any walking surface, including courtyards and plazas, not just those on accessible routes....
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11B-705.2 Detectable directional texture
This surface shall differ from adjoining walking surfaces in resiliency or sound-on-cane contact. The color shall be yellow and approximate FS 33538 of Federal Standard 595C....
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11B-223.2.2 Facilities specializing in treating conditions that affect mobility
use or assistance of a brace, cane, crutch, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or powered mobility aid; arthritic, neurological, or orthopedic conditions that severely limit one's ability to walk...
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BRW1000 Bariatric Wheelchair Scale Demo
The scale's 1,000-lb/450-kg capacity allows the BRW1000 to be used with manual or power wheelchairs, for dialysis patients, or walk-ons....
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Unity Surfacing Systems Play-Land Safety Surfacing
They are used to sit, walk, play or travel on. Passing a six (6) and seven (7) foot Drop Height Test and many other safety tests for your convenience....
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Hallways
A voter who is blind walks along a corridor with wall-mounted objects that are not protruding objects because they do not protrude more than 4 inches from the wall, are mounted above 80...
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The Look of Disability Discrimination
• A museum’s information desk staff tells a father who is blind that he cannot join a walk-in tour with his two sons....
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3. Q: Who does the ADA protect?
Major life activities include such things as caring for one's self, performing manual tasks, walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing, learning, and working....
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Broad Coverage
Conditions such as gastrointestinal disorders, diabetes, cancer and heart disease often only affect bodily functions without producing any outward limitations such as difficulty walking,...
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2. How may an employer identify individuals who may require assistance?
For example, many individuals who are blind may prefer to walk down stairs unassisted....
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Elevated Dune Crossings
Locate handrails continuously along both sides of the dune crossing at a height of 34 inches (865 millimeters) to 38 inches (965 millimeters) above the walking surface....
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Assistive Powered Scooters
Assistive Powered Scooters Assistive powered scooters are three- or four-wheel devices designed to provide mobility for individuals with limited endurance for walking or using a manual...
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Bathtubs (ADAAG 4.20)
Therefore they are more likely to transfer into the tub from a standing position regardless of whether they used a wheelchair, walking aid, or no aid at all....
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2.1(a)(iii) Substantially Limits
For example: Although cerebral palsy frequently significantly restricts major life activities such as speaking, walking and performing manual tasks, an individual with very mild cerebral...
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Introduction
For the effective communication required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, the WALK/DON’T WALK indications of visual pedestrian signal heads should be conveyed to pedestrians...
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‘‘Facility.’’ (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
"Facility'' means all or any portion of buildings, structures, sites, complexes, equipment, rolling stock or other conveyances, roads, walks, passageways, parking lots, or other real or...
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Significant alternatives which minimize any significant economic impacts on small entities
Accessible pedestrian signals and pedestrian pushbuttons communicate the information about the WALK and DON’T WALK intervals at signalized intersections in non-visual formats (i.e., audible...
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ADA Requirements
For persons who use mobility aids because they cannot walk or have problems walking or climbing stairs, the Standards require there to be ways of traveling throughout the facility that do...
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Facility (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
"Facility'' means all or any portion of buildings, structures, sites, complexes, equipment, rolling stock or other conveyances, roads, walks, passageways, parking lots, or other real or...
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Other Contrast Attributes
But they’re really hard for older people with low vision because they’re hard to walk on. Your walkers get stuck in them and things like that....
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Rebuilding Together Portland - Portland, OR
Rebuilding Together Portland organizes over 1,700 volunteers from all walks of life to unite on the last Saturday in April each year to complete roughly $1,250,000 worth of improvements...
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Feature 4 - Routes to the Meeting Space
Typically made up of hallways, corridors, and interior rooms and spaces, the accessible route is essential for people who have difficulty walking or who use wheelchairs or other mobility...
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Introduction
The ADA covers people with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities such as walking, speaking, lifting, hearing, seeing, reading, eating...
