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Step 2: Identify the Presence of Limiting Factors
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1.2 Background
An overview of Federal rule making and guidance on detectable warnings is given in Appendix B....
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Standards Development
We submitted comments on the proposed rules with documentation based on our research findings....
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Choice of Option One for Defining "Designed and Constructed for First Occupancy'' (Section-By-Section Analysis and Response to Comments)
In their view, Option Two would mean that in July 1991 (upon issuance of the final DOJ rule) the responsible entities would learn that ADA standards had been in effect since July 26, 1990...
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Additional benefits of water closet clearance standards
wheelchair user to effect a side or parallel transfer are among the most costly (in monetary terms) of the new provisions in the Access Board's guidelines that the Department adopts in this rule—but...
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Capacity Constraints
The rule mentions three specific examples of operational patterns or practices that would violate this provision....
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Background
As a rule, the Building Code requirements that are applicable are the ones that were in effect when the project was permitted....
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3.1 Refining MDE Definition and Committee Scope
within a general understanding of “medical diagnostic equipment,” some items (marked with a superscript “a” on Table 3.1) appeared more ambiguous or their applicability for the proposed rules...
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Reasonable Accommodation
These barriers may be physical obstacles (such as inaccessible facilities or equipment), or they may be procedures or rules (such as rules concerning when work is performed, when breaks...
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Reduced scoping for play areas and other recreation facilities. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
The current rules applicable to readily achievable barrier removal will be used to determine the number and type of accessible elements appropriate for a specific facility....
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Contours of Disability in America
Melville’s Moby Dick reinforced stereotypes of persons with disabilities as sinister, or even crazy, through such characters as the peg-legged Captain Ahab.4 Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ruled...
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First Victory
Felicity Barringer, “How Handicapped Won Access Rule Fight,” The Washington Post, April 12, 1983, p. A8. 51. Mayerson, interview, October 13, 1993. 52....
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III. DISCUSSION
This provision is known as the “Accessible Alterations Rule.”...
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Auditorium accessible seating
I doubt that the diagonal rule for the exits remoteness is in compliance. Probably needs an exit at the front....
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ADA25: #7 of 25 -- America's First ADA Jury Trial
CAROLINE: Did you know that the first time a jury ever ruled on Title II ADA case it was an NAD case!?...
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The Twin Pillars
In the decade following the historic 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v....
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Existing play areas. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
components for existing play areas or to recommend reduced scoping or additional exemptions for alteration, and has deleted the reduced scoping proposed in NPRM § 35.150(b)(4)(i) from the final rule...
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§1607.4 Information on impact.
Adverse impact and the “four-fifths rule.” ...
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Identification of accessible features in hotels and guest rooms. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
To recognize that the information and level of detail needed will vary based on the nature and age of the facility, § 36.302(e)(2) has been moved to § 36.302(e)(1)(ii) in the final rule...
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C. Availability of Captioning and Audio Description
In this rule, in order to avoid confusion with the term used for captions provided in the television context (as well as in other contexts), the Department has chosen to use the terms “closed...
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TTY Use
vis-à-vis the reportedly low incidence of TTY calls, if we required queuing systems for TTYs, carriers that currently maintain TTYs might have an incentive to discontinue them, as this rule...
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Separate Pathways for Pedestrians and Bicyclists
The comments noted that path users cannot be expected to always follow the ‘‘rules of the road’’ and suggested that if paths cannot be physically separated that lanes for pedestrians and...
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A. Coverage issues
compliance schedule whereby the percentage of movie screens offering closed captioning and video description increases on a yearly basis, beginning with 10 percent in the first year any such rule...
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Wheelchairs and other power-driven mobility devices.
Instead, the proposed rule provides a list including wheelchairs, walkers, crutches, canes, braces, or similar devices. ...