Events

11:30am - 1:00pm

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...

9:00am - 10:30am

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...

11:00am - 12:00pm

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?...

11:00am - 12:30pm

Description During this session, Bodies of Work, a consortium of four programs at three Chicago organizations, will share the practical side of the ADA to integrate disability artistry into arts programming. Bodies of Work collaborates with arts organizations locally, nationally, and internationally to increase their capacity to produce disabled artists’ work and to make their...

11:30am - 1:00pm

Description: This webinar will cover making online communication more accessible and easy to understand. Designed for medical providers, this session will highlight common barriers people with disabilities face when accessing important health information. Our speakers will break down the Americans with Disabilities Act’s requirements on effective communication and introduce practical tools to help you create...

8:00am - 12:00pm

Description BeyondAccess Consulting offers a five-day virtual training course to review information covered on the examination to become a Certified Access Specialist (CASp) in the State of California. Note: BeyondAccess Consulting has the same knowledgeable staff as the Pacific ADA Center and offers the same great exam prep course; we simply moved our services that go beyond...

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description: This webinar is part of the  Collaboration Webinar Series co-hosted by the California Commission on Disability Access (CCDA) and the Pacific ADA Center! It will focus on CCDA’s Accessible Guide to Parking for Business Owners and Operators. This toolkit reviews the requirements and provides resources to help business owners and operators avoid complaints about...

11:30am - 1:00pm

Description: With warm weather comes an increase in outdoor social activities. These include outdoor dining, retail, and community gatherings such as music festivals, street carnivals, parades, and farmers markets. In this webinar, presenters will address the accessibility of outdoor dining, retail, and other social gatherings that take place in the public right-of-way. The presentation will...

11:00am - 12:30pm

Description: Individuals with disabilities may face retaliation, harassment, and bullying in workplaces as well as in education and public settings.  This causes barriers to equal participation. This webinar will review requirements and protections under the Americans with Disabilities Act  Titles I, II, and III. Through real-world examples and best practices, participants will learn about their...

9:00am - 10:00am

Description: The Mid-Atlantic ADA Center invites you to participate in the webinar series “The Human Experience of Black People with Disabilities and Their Rights Under the ADA,” which reports on our research study about how Black individuals with disabilities access information and exercise their rights under the ADA. Intersectionality recognizes that individuals hold multiple, interconnected social identities—such...

10:00am - 11:00am

Description Presenters: Chris Sweet, Technical Assistant and Outreach Specialist Northeast ADA Center, Joe Zesski, Program Manager Northeast ADA Center Understanding what disability means under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can be tricky. People often have their own preconceptions of what disability means or may assume a definition for disability from laws other than the...

All day - 11:59pm

Description The National ADA Symposium is a 4-day event known for a session schedule that covers a wide range of topics, including employment, accessible design, state and local government issues, business and disability, accessible technology, and recreation. Sessions are presented by nationally recognized experts including representatives from the federal agencies that implement the ADA :...