However, in the on-site example mentioned above, the intent was to have the sign mounted so that a blind or visually impaired individual would be able to identify those doors as ones leading...
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ETA Opinion: ADA Signage at Exit Doors
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DISABILITY
(A) Deafness substantially limits hearing; (B) Blindness substantially limits seeing; (C) Intellectual disability substantially limits brain function; (D) Partially or completely...
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233 Residential Facilities
Requirements for residential facilities address access for persons with disabilities, including persons with mobility impairments and those who are deaf or hard of hearing....
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TITLE III COVERAGE AND FINDINGS
They are deaf and use American Sign Language as their primary means of communication. 42 U.S.C. § 12102; 28 C.F.R. § 36.104....
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APPENDIX RESOURCES FOR LOCATING REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS
Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf (301) 608-0050 (Voice/TT) The Registry offers information on locating and using interpreters and transliteration services....
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Case Study #1: Auxiliary aids and services under Title II are different from special education and related services under the IDEA.
When addressing the communication needs of a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, the IEP Team must consider the child's language and communication needs, opportunities for direct communication...
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I. BACKGROUND
The complainants in this matter are deaf, and are individuals with disabilities within the meaning of 42 U.S.C. § 12102(1)(A) and its implementing regulation 28 C.F.R. Part 36....
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SCOPE OF THE INVESTIGATION
The Department also reviewed the City’s Police Department’s policies and procedures regarding providing effective communication to persons who are deaf or hard-of-hearing....
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Accessible Polling Places for the Visually Impaired: A Compilation of Survey Results
This survey builds upon previous work with the visually disabled population and provides the opinions and recommendations of 202 legally blind voters....
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Section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Examples of these features may include, reversing the color scheme (to assist people with low vision), showing a visual prompt when an error tone is sounded (to assist persons who are deaf...
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Section 1630.2(j)(3) Predictable Assessments
(stating, even pre-ADAAA, that “certain impairments are by their very nature substantially limiting: the major life activity of seeing, for example, is always substantially limited by blindness...
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
in favor of this language, but noted that there are occasions when service animals are provoked to disruptive or aggressive behavior by agitators or troublemakers, as in the case of a blind...
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M307 Operable Parts
Patients who are blind or have low vision have difficulty distinguishing a flat membrane button or similar control unless it is tactilely discernible from the surrounding surface and any...
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Tonka's Job - A Mobility Assistance Animal Video
It took decades for the general public to accept dogs as service animals for the blind and disabled, now the ADA recognizes miniature horses as well....
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IMAGE Center
Whether it is a blind person learning to pour coffee or a person in a wheelchair trying to reach high cupboards, far too often, solutions go unexplored because we assume they don't exist...
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Lobbying & Grass Roots Activities
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), for example, was outspoken in its reservations about the ADA....
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More Questions and Answers About the ADA
For example, an employer may be required to provide a sign language interpreter during a job interview for an applicant who is deaf or hearing impaired, unless to do so would impose an undue...
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C. Costs and Benefits
Foremost among the expected benefits from the regulation is the opportunity for a greater number of individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing, or blind or have low vision, to better understand...
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2. Updates to Functional Performance Criteria: 508 Standards and 255 Guidelines
§ 1194.31 (a) At least one mode of operation and information retrieval that does not require user vision shall be provided, or support for assistive technology used by people who or blind...
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Suleiman Alibhai, O.D., Low Vision Services, PLC.
Initially, I thought about putting up slides of diseases to show you blind spots, and the narrow tunnel view. But you know, it’s really not like that....
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Visual Acuity
That’s pretty good vision, but you’re legally blind if that’s the best you can do. There are a lot of animals that would die to have 20/200 vision....
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Equipment and furniture.
The Department also believes that when federal guidance for accessibility exists for equipment required to be accessible to individuals who are blind or have low vision, entities should...
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Exclusion of service animals. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
in favor of this language, but noted that there are occasions when service animals are provoked to disruptive or aggressive behavior by agitators or troublemakers, as in the case of a blind...
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Mobilizing the Disability Community
She had attended medical school in the 1960s, but, after a progressive eye disease left her legally blind, she was forced to leave the profession....
