The message was clear: persons with disabilities struggled with unequal opportunities; they confronted not only the challenges of their impairments, but also the barriers society erects;...
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Congressional Hearings
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Perkins Access Digital Accessibility Services
The more successful you are, the more opportunities there are for individuals with disabilities....
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Ticketing (Assembly areas, not parking.)
Not all public venues, ticket sellers, and distributors provide the same opportunity to purchase tickets for wheelchair-accessible seats and non-accessible seats....
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G. Supplies
When possible, provide these individuals the opportunity to charge the batteries that power the equipment they use for mobility and independence. ...
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What Testing Accommodations Must Be Provided?
entities offering examinations must ensure that their exams do not provide qualified persons with disabilities with aids, benefits, or services that are not as effective in affording equal opportunity...
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Communication Issues for Employers with Maximum Leave Policies
for additional leave beyond the maximum period granted under the long-term disability program, and to refrain from terminating the employee until the human resources department has the opportunity...
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Common Problems with Access to Programs, Generally
Ø Employment and volunteer opportunities may be limited by others' assumptions about the talents, abilities, and interests of persons with disabilities....
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DEFINITIONS
public accommodation of a MSHA hospital facility, whether as an inpatient or an outpatient, as well as individuals seeking to use any other goods or services provided by MSHA, such as the opportunity...
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4. Exception from the Requirements of M301 for Certain Examination Chairs that Comply with M302
important features of making diagnostic equipment used by patients in either the supine, prone, or side-lying position or the seated position accessible, is to ensure the patient has the opportunity...
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Passing Spaces [1017.4]
Consider ways to alert people using mobility devices when a passing space provides the last opportunity on a trail to turn around, because this may not always be apparent....
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Trailhead Information Signs [F216.13 and 1017.10]
When this information is available on Web sites and in printed materials, it allows all hikers, including people with disabilities, the opportunity to understand the possible challenges...
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Sources of Technical Assistance
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) The EEOC offers technical assistance on the ADA provisions for employment which apply to businesses with 15 or more employees....
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Comments
Most disability community commenters believed that the operational use of the concept was an unnecessary obstacle to transportation opportunities for people with mobility disabilities and...
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Gates and Barriers
In such circumstances, 32 inches (815 millimeters) clearance, the same as is required for an interior door, will provide pedestrian access to the recreation opportunity without permitting...
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Polypavement
The assumption is that this surface, because of its natural soil base, never got the opportunity to set up properly because it was installed in wetlands where the soil naturally maintains...
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BACKGROUND
The Complainant, an individual with a disability, alleges that Blockbuster denied her an equal opportunity to enjoy its goods, services, and facilities at several stores because the Complainant...
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II. DEFINITIONS
Effective communication is achieved by furnishing appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary to afford an individual with a disability an equal opportunity to participate in...
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Glossary of Acronyms
DRC Disability Rights Center DREDF Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund DVA Disabled Veterans of America EEOC Equal Employment Opportunity...
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IV. DEFINITIONS
Effective communication is achieved by furnishing appropriate auxiliary aids and services where necessary to afford qualified individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to participate...
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Telephones
According to the ADA regulations, meeting facilities that provide equipment for participants to make outgoing calls on “more than an incidental convenience basis” must provide the same opportunity...
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Internet Postings (Advisory Guidance)
Therefore, it is important to provide the user with an opportunity to select alternate methods to access such forms. e. All Web pages should be tested using multiple viewers....
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Conditions for Exceptions [1019]
condition recognizes that public lands provide a wide variety of recreational experiences, from highly developed areas to wilderness areas that appear unchanged from primeval times and provide opportunities...
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Differences in Perspectives between Designers/Photographers and Visually Impaired Occupants
These buildings use all the latest technologies and maybe [the designers] get carried away with those technologies because they provide us with incredible opportunities but perhaps desensitize...
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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
services, programs, or activities of, or subjected to discrimination by covered entities. 3 These laws also prohibit covered entities from giving individuals with disabilities an unequal opportunity...
