Shelter staff and volunteers are often trained in first aid or other areas critical to the delivery of emergency services, but many have little, if any, familiarity with the needs of people...
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Need for and Benefits of the Proposed Standards
(3 percent) had difficulty seeing words or letters in ordinary newspaper print, including 1.8 million who are completely unable to see; and • 7.8 million (3 percent) had difficulty hearing...
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Other Contrast Attributes
I’d just like to hear you express, for example, when you talk about texture contrast, how do you [measure and] perceive that differently than you do color contrast?...
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§ 35.108 Definition of ‘‘disability.’’
(2) Physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, contagious and noncontagious diseases and conditions such as the following: orthopedic, visual, speech, and hearing...
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§ 36.105 Definition of ‘‘disability.’’
(2) Physical or mental impairment includes, but is not limited to, contagious and noncontagious diseases and conditions such as the following: Orthopedic, visual, speech and hearing...
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Background
These range from umbrella terms such as “assistance animal” to specific labels such as “hearing,” “signal,” “seizure alert,” “psychiatric service,” “emotional support” animal, etc. that...
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Section 9, Accessible Transient Lodging (Preamble, Section-by-Section Analysis)
Four percent of the first hundred rooms, and roughly two percent of rooms in excess of 100, must meet certain requirements for accessibility to persons with mobility or hearing impairments...
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)
that before filing a case in Federal or State court seeking relief that is also available under the IDEA, the child’s parents must generally go through (“exhaust”) the IDEA administrative hearing...
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Section 9, Accessible Transient Lodging (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
Four percent of the first hundred rooms, and roughly two percent of rooms in excess of 100, must meet certain requirements for accessibility to persons with mobility or hearing impairments...
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II-7.1200 Qualified interpreter
interpreter is required, therefore, the public entity should provide a qualified interpreter, that is, an interpreter who is able to sign to the individual who is deaf what is being said by the hearing...
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Recognizing TTY Calls/Treating Silent, Open Lines as Potential TTY Calls
Some TTYs emit a recorded spoken announcement to the call taker that a TTY call is being placed, such as "HEARING IMPAIRED CALLER. USE TTY."...
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How to access video description
Depending upon the program being viewed, when listening to the secondary audio, you may hear the primary audio with video description, Spanish or other language translation, a duplicate...
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Accessibility to Perform the Essential Functions of the Job
removing obstacles that might be potential hazards in the path of people without vision; adding flashing lights when alarm bells are normally used, to alert an employee with a hearing...
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Scoping Requirement for Alarms
Many commenters supported ensuring that such alarm systems are accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing, but no information was received on appropriate technical specifications...
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SUMMARY
installation is needed to assure that it meets the goals of providing accurate and helpful information to pedestrians who have vision impairments, particularly those who may also have hearing...
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Blind or Low Vision
Many people who are blind depend on their sense of touch and hearing to perceive their environment....
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Appropriate and inappropriate phrases to describe persons with disabilities
or visually impaired The blind Person with a disability The disabled; handicapped Person who is deaf or hard of hearing...
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503.4 User Controls for Captions and Audio Description (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The Advisory Committee recommended inclusion of these provisions to ensure that persons with hearing- and vision-related disabilities can find—and use—captioning and audio description controls...
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Hall Lanterns [4.10.4]
Visual signals provide this information to people who are deaf or hard of hearing. At least one visible signal must serve each car....
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2.1.2.1 Summary of IEC 118‒4 (1981) Standards
The document includes a statement that in schools for hearing-impaired children it may be desirable to boost the low frequencies to compensate for the decrement in the low frequency response...
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BACKGROUND
. § 35.130(a); Denying this detainee the opportunity to participate in or benefit from UPDC’s aids, benefits, or services, 42 U.S.C. § 12132; 28 C.F.R. § 35.130(b)(1)(i);...
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6. Wheelchairs and Other Power-Driven Mobility Devices
use nontraditional mobility devices, such as the Segway® PT, by returning veterans with disabilities and other individuals with disabilities who are using these devices as their mobility aid...
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Typical examples of reasonable modifications are:
Modifying a membership policy at a health club to allow a person who uses a wheelchair to bring an aide to provide assistance in getting on and off exercise equipment, in and out of a swimming...
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6. Wheelchairs and Other Power-Driven Mobility Devices
nontraditional mobilitity devices, such as the Segway® PT by returning veterans with disabilities and other individuals with disabilities who are using these devices as their mobility aid...