This requirement would be new to the 508 Standards and 255 Guidelines, and is intended to address the needs of individuals with visual impairments....
Search Results "Episodic Impairment"
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407.11 Keys, Tickets, and Fare Cards (Section-by-Section Analysis)
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Detectable Warnings [§406.8 (DOT’s Standards), §705]
developing for public rights-of-way will address requirements for detectable warnings at curb ramps and other transitions along public streets and sidewalks where hazards to people with vision impairments...
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Rehabilitation and Outpatient Physical Therapy Facilities [§208.2.2]
Rehabilitation facilities that provide, but that do not specialize in, services or treatment for persons with mobility impairments, such as general rehabilitative therapy centers, are not...
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Signage
Result: People who are blind or visually impaired are trained to look in a consistent location for tactile signs....
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Multiple chemical sensitivities. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
In order to be viewed as a disability under the ADA, an impairment must substantially limit one or more major life activities....
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106.5.66 Structural Impracticability
., those who use crutches or who have sight, hearing, or mental impairments) in accordance with these standards....
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407.3 Tactilely Discernible (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The intent of this proposed section is to address the difficulty certain people with visual and dexterity impairments often have when using touchscreens....
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B. Proposed 255 Guidelines
would preserve the current requirement that when a document is provided in a non-electronic format, alternate formats (such as large-print or braille) usable by individuals with vision impairments...
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21. BRAND STANDARDS, QUALITY ASSURANCE INSPECTIONS
with roll-in showers (ADA Standards § 9.1.2), the required number of removable tub seats (ADA Standards §§ 9(1), 9.1.2 and 4.20.3), the required number of accessible rooms for the hearing impaired...
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Sections 35.101 and 36.101—Purpose and Broad Coverage
Some commenters recommended that the Department add a third paragraph to these sections expressly stating that ‘‘not all impairments are covered disabilities.’’...
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Providing minimal protection. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
appropriately by such an animal would not involve unprovoked aggression but could include actively cuing the individual by nudging or pawing the individual to alert to the onset of an episode...
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§ 382.70 Disability-related complaints received by carriers
Data concerning a passenger’s disability must be recorded separately in the following areas: vision impaired, hearing impaired, vision and hearing impaired, mentally impaired, communicable...
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Safety Assistants/Attendants
(We use the term “severe hearing and vision impairment” to include the entire spectrum of this disability, including the extreme of “deaf-blind,” unless we expressly indicate otherwise.)...
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Q9: How can a school district meet its obligation, as described in the Section 504 regulation, to evaluate students to determine the need for special education or related services consistent with the Amendments Act?
Additionally, the Committee on Education and Labor in the House of Representatives cautioned that "an individual with an impairment that substantially limits a major life activity should...
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II-5.2000 Methods for providing program accessibility
If an individual with a mobility impairment seeks information about welfare benefits, the agency can provide the information in an accessible ground floor location or in another accessible...
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Section 1630.2(i) Major Life Activities
The link between particular impairments and various major bodily functions should not be difficult to identify....
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ADA Title II: Public Transportation
Paratransit is a service where individuals who are unable to use the regular transit system independently (because of a physical or mental impairment) are picked up and dropped off at their...
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Recognizing TTY Calls/Treating Silent, Open Lines as Potential TTY Calls
Some TTYs emit a recorded spoken announcement to the call taker that a TTY call is being placed, such as "HEARING IMPAIRED CALLER. USE TTY."...
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What is a "reasonable accommodation"?
in Braille, on audio tape, or on computer disk; TTYs for use with telephones by people who are deaf, and hardware and software that make computers accessible to people with vision impairments...
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Sections 505.10.2 and 505.10.3
The Department is not aware of any data indicating that an outside diameter of 2 inches would pose any adverse impairment to use by individuals with disabilities....
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217 Telephones
Provisions are provided for wheelchair access (217.2), volume controls (217.3), and TTYs (217.4), which are devices that enable people with hearing or speech impairments to communicate through...
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Accessibility to Perform the Essential Functions of the Job
removing obstacles that might be potential hazards in the path of people without vision; adding flashing lights when alarm bells are normally used, to alert an employee with a hearing impairment...
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SUMMARY
Careful evaluation of every pedestrian signal installation is needed to assure that it meets the goals of providing accurate and helpful information to pedestrians who have vision impairments...
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Appropriate and inappropriate phrases to describe persons with disabilities
Person with an intellectual, cognitive, developmental disability The retarded; mentally retarded Person who is blind or visually impaired...