1.0 Background The standards used to ensure accessibility for people who use wheeled mobility devices like wheelchairs and scooters are based on research in anthropometry, the measurement...
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Bed Height Fact Sheet
All beds (including the railings, box spring, and mattress) within a mobility accessible (ADA) room should be no higher than 23” and no lower than 17” above the floor surface....
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The Shameful Wall
The Shameful Wall And now I sign legislation which takes a sledgehammer to another wall, one which has, for too many generations, separated Americans with disabilities from the freedom...
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§35.140 Employment discrimination prohibited (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department, together with the other Federal agencies responsible for the enforcement of Federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of disability, recognizes the...
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Familiarize Yourself with the Law
Some passengers with disabilities bring a copy of the regulations with them when they access air transportation in order to have the primary resource close at hand....
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Questions to Ask for Identifying Communication and Accommodation Needs
Questions to Ask for Identifying Communication and Accommodation Needs1 By June Isaacson Kailes, Associate Director Harris Family Center for Disability and Health Policy...
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1. Width and Depth of Wheelchair Spaces
One commenter (a disability rights organization) asserted that if diagnostic equipment is accessible for wheelchairs it should also be accessible to scooters and recommended enlarging the...
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§27.19 Compliance with Americans with Disabilities Act requirements and FTA policy.
[55 FR 40763, Oct. 4, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 45621, Sept. 6, 1991; 61 FR 32354, June 24, 1996; 79 FR 21405, Apr. 16, 2014]
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F233.2 Residential Dwelling Units Provided by HUD or Through Grant or Loan Programs Administered by HUD
residential dwelling units are provided by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), or through a grant or loan program administered by HUD, residential dwelling units with mobility...
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Exam Tables and Chairs
Exam Tables and Chairs Traditional fixed-height exam tables and chairs (also called treatment tables or procedure tables) are too high for many people with a mobility disability to use...
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§382.127 What procedures apply to stowage of battery-powered mobility aids?
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ADA Update - A Primer for State and Local Governments (Title II Primer)
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division Disability Rights Section AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT ADA Update: A Primer for State and Local Governments...
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3.1 Overview of Legal Obligations
This duty is ongoing and may arise any time that a person's disability or job changes....
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F233.3.4 Dispersion
Residential dwelling units required to provide mobility features complying with 809.2 through 809.4 and residential dwelling units required to provide communication features complying with...
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Substitute cells. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
NPRM, the Department proposed language based on Option 2, providing that when cells are altered, a covered entity may satisfy its obligation to provide the required number of cells with mobility...
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Alterations to cells and program access. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Historically, individuals with disabilities have been excluded from such programs because they are not located in accessible locations, or inmates with disabilities have been segregated...
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What is Reasonable Accommodation?
Reasonable accommodation is any change or adjustment to a job or work environment that permits a qualified applicant or employee with a disability to participate in the job application process...
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27. Hand-Carrying
Except in emergency situations, a passenger's request for a driver to lift the passenger out of his or her mobility device should generally be denied because of the safety, dignity, and...
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233.2 Residential Dwelling Units Provided by Entities Subject to HUD Section 504 Regulations
issued by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, such entities shall provide residential dwelling units with mobility...
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Section 36.301 Eligibility Criteria (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
For example, public accommodations may not require that an individual with a disability be accompanied by an attendant....
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Speech Impairments
Speech Impairments People with speech impairments may stutter, slur words, sound hoarse, have unintelligible speech, or be non-vocal. When communicating verbally with a person...
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608.4 Seats (Exception)
An exception to the section permits seats to not be installed in transfer type shower compartments in residential dwelling units required to provide mobility features provided that the walls...
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§382.91 What assistance must carriers provide to passengers with a disability in moving within the terminal?
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F206.5.3 Transient Lodging Facilities
In transient lodging facilities, entrances, doors, and doorways providing user passage into and within guest rooms that are not required to provide mobility features complying with 806.2...