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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3.1 Refining MDE Definition and Committee Scope
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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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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. ...
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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. ...
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Determining appropriate auxiliary aids. (Section-by-Section Analysis)
Many advocacy groups, particularly those representing blind individuals and those with low vision, urged the Department to add language in the final rule requiring the provision of accessible...
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1. Application of Functional Performance Criteria: 508 Standards
As described in the preamble to the final rule for the existing standards: This section [1194.31] provides functional performance criteria for overall product evaluation and for technologies...
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B. The ADA Standards for Accessible Design
1“Unless specifically stated otherwise, the advisory notes, appendix notes, and figures contained in the 1991 Standards and 2010 Standards explain or illustrate the requirements of the rule...
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III. PROTECTING THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF THE ADA
Following Lane, the Supreme Court in 2006 ruled unanimously in United States v....
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B.
Cases concerning standing, like Newport News, and the normal rules of construction govern here....
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A. Movie Basics, Captioning, and Audio Description Generally
In order to avoid confusion between the specific requirements in this proposed rule and the ways the terms open and closed captioning have historically been used in other settings, the Department...
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ADA25: #1 of 25 -- The NAD and the ADA
With the passing of the ADA, the Rebab Act's anti-discrimination rules were expanded to almost all places. This was a great improvement....