Search Results "Tactile Text"

• Research and History > Regulations and Standards History > Equality of Opportunity: The Making of the Americans with Disabilities Act
  Master Strategy and the Retooling of the ADA

  Telecommunication Device for the Deaf (TDD)—a machine that transmits typed data over telephone lines—to communicate with someone without such a device, through an operator who would translate text...

• Federal Documents > Preamble to Regulations > 28 CFR Part 36, Appendix B: Preamble to Regulation on Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities (1991 ADA Title III Regulations Preamble)
  Section 36.303 Auxiliary Aids and Services (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)

  Several persons and organizations requested that the Department replace the term "telecommunications devices for deaf persons'' or "TDD's'' with the term "text telephone.''...

• Federal Documents > Preamble to Regulations > 49 CFR Parts 37 and 38 -- Transportation for Individuals With Disabilities at Intercity, Commuter, and High Speed Passenger Railroad Station Platforms; Miscellaneous Amendments, Preamble
  DOT Response

  The Department believes that it is inadvisable, with the exception of boarding and alighting a train, to ever have a wheelchair operate over the two-foot wide tactile strips (i.e., detectable...

• Federal Documents > Preamble to Guidelines > 36 CFR Part 1192 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Accessibility Guidelines for Transportation Vehicles (2016 Non-Rail Vehicle Guidelines) - Preamble
  T215 Communication Features

  Other than this reorganization and some minor editorial changes to the text of certain provisions to improve clarity, the scoping provisions in the 2016 Non-Rail Vehicle Guidelines for communication...

• Legal Documents > SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE CAVALIERS OPERATING COMPANY, LLC
  B. ACCESSIBLE TICKETING

  and (c) provide materials, such as seating maps, plans, brochures, pricing charts, or other information, that identify Accessible Seating and information relevant thereto with the same text...

• Federal Documents > Preamble to Standards > 36 CFR Part 1194 Electronic and Information Technology Accessibility Standards (Section 508 Standards) - Preamble
  Section 1194.24 Video and Multimedia Products (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)

  out that subtitles are not an effective substitute for captioning multimedia presentations because subtitles do not display the environmental sounds, descriptions of music, or additional text...