Both DOJ’s and DOT’s ADA Standards are based on minimum accessibility guidelines adopted by the Access Board in 2004, known as the ADA Accessibility Guidelines....
Search Results "Boarding Pier"
2010 ADA Definition
Boarding Pier: A portion of a pier where a boat is temporarily secured for the purpose of embarking or disembarking.
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ADA Accessibility Standards
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§ 38.85 Between-car barriers
Where vehicles operate in a high-platform, level-boarding mode, devices or systems shall be provided to prevent, deter or warn individuals from inadvertently stepping off the platform...
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304 Turning Space
The Access Board is conducting research to study this issue in order to determine if new requirements are warranted....
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Van Accessible Parking Spaces
The Board made this change due to several factors....
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Companion Seats
The Board sought information on the impact of the requirement that each wheelchair space have an adjacent companion seat that can be removed to provide an adjoining wheelchair space (Question...
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M306.1 General (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Access Board sought public input in question 41 in the preamble to the MDE NPRM, on whether diagnostic equipment that communicates instructions or other information to the patient should...
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IBC Comparison
The comparison is ordered according to the format and sequence of the new ADA Accessibility Guidelines, which the Board published in the Federal Register on July 23, 2004 (column 1)....
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I. Slip Resistant Surface—Aisles, Steps, Floor Areas Where People Walk, Floor Areas in Securement Locations, Lift Platforms, Ramps
A research project sponsored by the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board (Access Board) conducted tests with persons with disabilities and concluded that a higher coefficient...
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810.5.3 Platform and Vehicle Floor Coordination
EXCEPTION: Where vehicles are boarded from sidewalks or street-level, low-level platforms shall be permitted to be less than 8 inches (205 mm)....
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3. Alternative Regulatory Approaches: Automated Announcement Systems
In promulgating a 100-bus VOMS threshold for large transit agencies subject to the automated announcement systems requirement, the Access Board considered other potential regulatory alternatives...
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§382.3 Facility
., structures, roads, walks, parking lots, ticketing areas, baggage drop-off and retrieval sites, gates, other boarding locations, loading bridges) normally used by passengers or other members...
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§382.85(b)
(b) On flights where advance seat assignments are not offered, you must provide seating accommodations under this section by allowing passengers to board the aircraft before other passengers...
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Information and Directional Signs
In the final rule, the Board has removed "permanent" as a descriptor of the type of rooms and facilities covered in this provision....
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Analysis of Transfer Surface Dimensions Based on Wheeled Mobility User Anthropometry
Access Board RE: Analysis of Transfer Surface Dimensions Based on Wheeled Mobility User Anthropometry...
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15. In § 38.95, amend the first sentence of paragraph (a)(2)
In § 38.95, amend the first sentence of paragraph (a)(2) by adding the words “level-entry boarding,” before the words ” portable or platform lifts” and by revising the second sentence to...
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1017.6 Openings
This section requires openings in the surface of trails, passing spaces, and resting intervals such as spaces between the boards in a boardwalk to not allow passage of a sphere more than...
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Lift
A lift conforming to Access Board requirements is 30"x48" and capable of lifting a wheelchair/occupant combination of up to 600 pounds....
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M305.2.1 Location (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Therefore, the Access Board has separated the location provision into end transfer supports and side transfer supports....
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Paragraph (c) Access to moving text (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Board agrees that automatic messages could be a problem and that one may not be able to communicate with the sender until the message has gone by....
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Route and Destination Signs
The Board has corrected this exception so that characters are not required to be more than 3 inches high where sign space is limited....
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M101.3 Existing Diagnostic Equipment (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Access Board’s mandate was to establish only the minimum technical criteria, however enforcing authorities may establish scoping requirements in the future....
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QUESTION: DO THE PROVISIONS OF PART 39 APPLY TO PVOs WHOSE VESSELS PICK UP OR DISCHARGE PASSENGERS AT U.S. PORTS, OR ONLY TO PVOs WHOSE VESSELS PICK UP PASSENGERS AT U.S. PORTS?
Consequently, given the present rule text, a passenger who boards a vessel at a U.S. port and disembarks at a foreign port is covered by the protections of the rule, but a passenger who...
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Rollability and Smoothness of Walking Surfaces
The Access Board is sponsoring preliminary research that will produce a plan for a test protocol and instrumentation to measure the rollability and smoothness of walking surfaces and to...
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B.3.iii. - What is the difference between "equivalent facilitation" and "alternative means of access"?
Equivalent facilitation focuses on whether an EIT product provides access that is equal to or greater than that required in the technical provisions in Subpart B of the Access Board’s standards...