Past BANA Board Chair American Printing House for the Blind - Mary Nelle McLennan, Representative Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind & Visually Impaired...
Search Results "Temporary Impairment"
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Braille Authority of North America (BANA)
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Parent Asks for an Evaluation of the Student
In other words, when a school district conducts an evaluation for disability, it is important to consider that mitigating measures can treat the impairment, thereby obscuring the substantial...
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Lighthouse Guild
Lighthouse Guild is the leading not-for-profit vision + healthcare organization, with a long-standing heritage of addressing the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired, including...
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The Wayfindr Open Standard
We want to empower vision impaired people to navigate the world independently The Wayfindr Open Standard aims to do just that....
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HumanWare Trekker Breeze+ Handheld Talking GPS
the next generation of HumanWare’s popular Trekker Breeze navigation system, offering the most accurate, intuitive, and effective navigation information for travelers who are visually impaired...
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Effect on Removal of Barriers in Existing Facilities: ADA Standard Section 101.2
Section 101.2 of the ADA Standards covers the effects of the removal of barriers in existing facilities.
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QuickCaption
Realtime Captioning converts the spoken word into instant text and has quickly become the new standard for the deaf or hearing-impaired community and for institutions seeking compliance...
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Center for Assistive Technology
Activities integrate multiple disciplines and span economic sectors to improve the quality of life for persons with any level of impairment, across all ages and within any environment....
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disAbility Solutions for Independent Living, Inc. (dSIL) - Daytona Beach, FL
Services are available to people with disabilities who meet the following criteria: the individual has a severe physical, mental, cognitive or sensory impairment....
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Wheelchair & Ambulatory Sports
to facilitate access to disability sports by providing information on a wide range of sports and sports organizations focusing on people with hearing, visual, physical and intellectual impairment...
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Tactile Design for Universal Access
Inc. was established in 1997 to refine and commercialize methods for tactile graphics production that were first demonstrated by Karen Luxton Gourgey and the Computer Center for Visually Impaired...
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b. A written job description prepared before advertising or interviewing applicants for a job
Adaptive devices or computer software can enable a person without arms or a person with impaired vision to perform the essential functions of the job....
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Section 1630.14(b) Employment Entrance Examination
An employment entrance examination then reveals that the applicant has a disabling impairment that, according to reasonable medical judgment that relies on the most current medical knowledge...
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TTYs
According to these commenters, compliance with wheelchair access provisions greatly compromises their usability by the majority of persons with hearing or speech impairments who do not use...
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§ 382.45 Passenger information
(c) Each carrier shall ensure that qualified individuals with a disability, including those with vision or hearing impairments, have timely access to information the carrier provides to...
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11B-703.4.2 Location
Persons with visual impairments are trained to look in a consistent location for tactile signs. ...
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Section 1193.33 Accessibility and usability
For persons with a visual impairment, four alternate formats exist: Braille, large print, electronic text, and audio cassette....
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Can an employer consider health and safety when deciding whether to hire an applicant or retain an employee who has HIV or AIDS?
Having HIV or AIDS, however, might impair an individual’s ability to perform certain functions of a job, thus causing the individual to pose a direct threat to the health or safety of the...
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Common Problems with Access to Programs, Generally
Voting: Consider the accessibility of voting machines to persons who have mobility impairments as well as those who are blind when acquiring new machines....
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Guest Rooms
This type of mattress forms around the body preventing easy movement for those with impairments. Floors....
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Interpreting the Interactions
And you can see there are a lot of people – about 40 percent of the people in the range between 20/20 and 20/60 have contrast sensitivity that would be considered moderately impaired....
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16. Reasonable accommodation
Thus, a small day-care center might not be required to expend more than a nominal sum, such as that necessary to equip a telephone for use by a secretary with impaired hearing, but a large...
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Sources of Technical Assistance
Available from the Department of Justice Self-Evaluation Checklist for Hotels and Motels to Ensure Access to Services and Facilities by Customers Who Are Blind, Deaf-Blind, or Visually-Impaired...
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Comments
Some disability community commenters supported this approach, citing the increased mobility that these devices offered persons with mobility impairments, while some transportation industry...
