Description Whether it’s a concert, a movie or a sporting event, the ADA includes specific requirements around ticketing and accessible seating to ensure people with disabilities and their companions have access to these venues and activities. Join us for this session where we take a look at the physical access requirements for accessible seating as...
Description Understanding and applying accessible design standards to provide access to museums and their exhibits can be challenging. When making design decisions, requirements for usability and effective communication are intricately tied to the process and may in turn influence the approach taken to produce good design and ensure accessibility. Using examples, the intricate relationship among...
Description: Ann Deschamps, Director of the Mid-Atlantic ADA Center, and Robin Jones, Director of the Great Lakes ADA Center, will lead a virtual conversation on disability inclusion in the context of the ADA. The discussion will include the difference between equity and equality, a review of reasonable accommodations, and the ADA’s objective to level the...
Description With concert and event season fast approaching, this session is our reminder that the ADA requires covered entities to provide tickets for accessible seating at events where assigned seating is provided. However, there are still many entities and attendees with disabilities who have questions about this process. For example, who qualifies for accessible seating?...
The New England ADA Center has a new web course, "How the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Applies to Addiction and Recovery". Many people with addiction to alcohol and in recovery from opioids and other drugs have rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This free, self-paced web course provides an overview of how...
Black Diamond Blade Company, doing business as Cutting Edge Supply, a California-based construction supply company operating in Arizona, will pay $150,000 to a former welder and take other actions to settle a disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Cutting Edge did not accommodate a welder with diabetes...
To help schools create more accessible digital learning environments, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology and the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services published a brief on digital accessibility that provides recommendations for districts to consider. The brief was produced under the direction of the Biden administration, not the current Trump...
