depend not only on technologies that are currently available to achieve compliance, but also on emerging technologies that may provide more cost-effective ways in the future to ensure equal...
Search Results "Equal Opportunity"
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1. Summary of Results
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Background
In contrast, older respondents who were nonambulatory reported that all of the configurations (including the preferred and alternative ADA configurations) were equally difficult....
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Alternate Scenarios
In other words, it was assumed that the number of ADA-covered facilities respectively compliant with these 20 requirements was equal to the percentage of the United States population (based...
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Substitute cells. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
planned), provided that each substitute cell is located within the same facility, is integrated with other cells to the maximum extent feasible, and has, at a minimum, physical access equal...
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Section 36.303(g)(2) General
These commenters reasoned that fairness and equality concerns justified adoption of Option 1 because, in their view, Option 2 could incentivize more movie theaters to delay their digital...
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AVAILABLE DATA DO NOT SUPPORT DEPARTING FROM THE CURRENTLY ACCEPTED STANDARD OF 19-INCH TRANSFER SURFACE HEIGHT
Thirty (30) percent of male manual wheelchair users and 6 percent of male power wheelchair users had seat heights equal to or less than 19 inches....
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Stages.
sources with which to quantify the benefits that accrue to students and other persons with disabilities who, as a result of direct access to stages, would be able to participate fully and equally...
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2. Accommodation in testing
For example: A person with dyslexia should be given an opportunity to take a written test orally, if the dyslexia seriously impairs the individual's ability to read....
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Section 36.406(f)(3)
that seat four or more wheelchair users and their companions have the potential to reduce the number of available wheelchair seating spaces below the level required, thus reducing the opportunities...
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Time periods
the House report explains, ‘‘The employment, transportation, and public accommodation sections of * * * (the ADA) would be meaningless if people who use wheelchairs were not afforded the opportunity...
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Accessibility Stories by Vijay Gupta
But I see a lot of opportunity and I think it can be achieved. It will take a lot of experience, a lot of [work]. That’s one story I wanted to tell....
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Section 35.136 Service Animals (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Add in § 35.136(c) that if a public entity properly excludes a service animal, the public entity must give the individual with a disability the opportunity to participate in or benefit from...
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University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) ADA Professional Training Certificate Program
Real-life scenarios are used throughout the course and the student will have the opportunity to meet several individuals with various disabilities and hear first-hand their experiences and...
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Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and Communication Needs
For a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, the IEP Team must consider: (1) the child's language and communication needs; (2) opportunities for direct communication with peers and professional...
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Service Animal Issues
apparent lack of problems in the real world of air travel, hundreds of comments expressed the fear that the Department was proposing new regulations that would unfairly limit the travel opportunities...
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Brooklyn Center for Independence of the Disabled, Inc. (BCID) - Brooklyn, NY
We exist to to improve the quality of life of Brooklyn residents with disabilities through programs that empower them to gain greater control of their lives and achieve full and equal integration...
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Multi-Cultural Independent Living Center of Boston, Inc. (MILCB) - Jamaica Plain, MA
We create opportunities for people with disabilities to achieve self-determination at their maximum level of independent functioning within their family and community environment....
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ARISE - Syracuse, Auburn, Chittenango, Fulton, Oneida, Oswego, and Pulaski, NY
Since 1979, we have provided opportunities so that people with disabilities can live freely and independently in the community. ...
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Institute for Human Centered Design (IHCD)
Design (IHCD), founded in Boston in 1978 as Adaptive Environments, is an international non-governmental educational organization (NGO) committed to advancing the role of design in expanding opportunity...
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National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR)
helps people with disabilities in the following ways: It improves their ability to perform activities of their choice in the community It expands society's capacity to provide full opportunities...
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Spokane Center For Independent Living (SCIL) - Spokane Valley, WA
Location: Spokane Valley, WA Mission Statement We empower People with Disabilities to be in control of their lives and to live more independently through informed choices and opportunities...
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B. Technical standards for criterion-related validity studies
the following considerations should also be taken into account: The degree of adverse impact of the procedure, the availability of other selection procedures of greater or substantially equal...
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What Kind Of Documentation Is Sufficient To Support A Request For Testing Accommodations?
public entities offering examinations must ensure that their exams do not provide qualified persons with disabilities with aids, benefits, or services that are not as effective in affording equal...
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5. Conforming Alternate Versions
permitting the use of an alternate version of any Web page that does not conform to the elements of a “conforming alternate version” as defined by WCAG 2.0 is incompatible with the goal of equal...
