In addition, the proposed regulation updates the terminology in light of modern usage from "individuals with impaired hearing or speech" to "individuals with hearing or speech disabilities...
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Section 35.161 Telecommunications (Section-by-Section Analysis)
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Examples of Alternative Formats
qualified sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices, documents in Braille, and other ways of making communications accessible to people who have speech, hearing, or vision impairments...
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BACKGROUND
In recent years, with the development of guidelines for the public right-of-way, concerns have been raised about the accessibility of roundabouts to persons with severe visual impairments...
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III-4.1100 General
Although the garage operator does not intend to discriminate against individuals with disabilities, the garage's policy unnecessarily tends to screen out people with certain mobility impairments...
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Section 37.129 Types of Service
., persons who can use fixed route transit but who, because of a specific impairment-related condition, cannot get to or from a stop), the “feeder paratransit” option, under the conditions...
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Helping Hands
We are a non-profit organization that helps adults with spinal cord injuries and other mobility impairments live more independent and engaged lives....
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Attorney areas and witness stands. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
These commenters also made a number of observations, including the following: providing effective access to individuals with mobility impairments is not possible when architectural barriers...
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Section 37.125 ADA Paratransit Eligibility—Process
Often, people tend to think of paratransit exclusively in terms of people with mobility impairments. Under the ADA, this is not accurate....
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Assisted Living Directory - Ohio Assisted Living Facilities & Senior Care
unrelated individuals, and supervision and personal care services for three or more of those individuals who are dependent on the services of others by reason of age or physical or mental impairment...
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Appendix: Revised Annotated Bibliography
In performance tests, commercial non-impaired drivers performed better than impaired drivers; amputees performed as well as or better than non-impaired, non-commercial drivers....
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New Hampshire Association for the Blind
For more than 100 years the Association’s mission has been “To advance the independence of persons who are blind and visually impaired.”...
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International Hearing Society (IHS)
Founded in 1951, the Society continues to recognize the need for promoting and maintaining the highest possible standards for its members in the best interests of the hearing impaired it...
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Mind's Eye Travel
Trips Mind's Eye Travel is an organization that creates tours for people who are blind or visually impaired....
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Section 1630.15(d) Defense To Not Making Reasonable Accommodation
To demonstrate undue hardship pursuant to the ADA and this part, an employer must show substantially more difficulty or expense than would be needed to satisfy the “de minimis” title VII...
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Scoping for Guest Rooms
The industry considers the original ADAAG specification, which is substantially lower than 50%, to be excessive in view of its assessments on the usage rate of such rooms by persons with...
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Section 35.151(k) Detention and correctional facilities
The Department’s compliance reviews and investigations have substantiated certain of these allegations....
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9. Is an employer required to provide the reasonable accommodation that the individual wants?
The attorney explains that a reader enables her to review substantial amounts of written materials in an efficient manner....
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28 CFR Part 36 Nondiscrimination on the Basis of Disability by Public Accommodations and in Commercial Facilities NPRM (2008 Title III NPRM)
requirements issued by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board" (Access Board); and perform periodic reviews of any rule judged to have a significant economic impact on a substantial...
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Alterations and water closet clearances in single-user toilet rooms with in-swinging doors. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
requirements would add two feet to the width of an accessible single-user toilet room; however, another commenter said the drawings in the proposed regulation demonstrated that there would be no substantial...
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4.3.9 Doorway Design
Automating frequently used doors that are kept closed and require closers will increase accessibility substantially, especially on exterior doors where the operating forces are higher to...
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Section 35.151(k) Detention and correctional facilities (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Department's compliance reviews and investigations have substantiated certain of these allegations....
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1134A.6 Showers
Doors and panels of shower enclosures shall be substantially constructed from approved, shatter-resistant materials. Hinged shower doors shall open outward....
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Automated Announcement Systems
Since the early 2000s, deployment of various advanced technologies in transportation—commonly referred to as “intelligent transportation systems” (ITS)—has grown substantially....
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Other Contrast Attributes
But it’s a change in texture so a person who’s visually impaired or blind, they would know – they’ve got the texture – but they’ve got both [cues]....
