Americans With Disabilities Act Title Ii Regulations

If a public entityprovides services, programs, or activities to the public via the web or mobile apps, itgenerally needs to ensure that those services, programs, or activities are accessible.The Department also does not believe that requirement is met by a public entity merelyproviding an accessibility disclaimer or statement explaining how members of the publiccan request accessible web content or mobile apps. If none of a public entity’s webcontent or mobile apps were to conform to the technical standard adopted in subpart Hof this part, individuals with disabilities would need to request access each and everytime they attempted to interact with the public entity’s services, programs, or activities,which would not provide equal opportunity. Similarly, it would not provide equalopportunity to offer services, programs, or activities via the web or mobile apps toindividuals without disabilities but require individuals with disabilities to rely exclusivelyon other methods to access those services. The Department received a comment suggesting that the regulatory text should requirea public entity claiming the undue burdens limitation to identify the inaccessible contentat issue, set a reliable point of contact for people with disabilities seeking to access theinaccessible content, and develop a plan and timeline for remediating the inaccessiblecontent. The Department declines to take this suggested approach because it would bea departure from how the limitation generally applies in other contexts covered by title IIof the ADA. 216 In these other contexts, if an action would result in a fundamentalalteration or undue burdens, a public entity must still take any other action that wouldnot result in such an alteration or such burdens but would nevertheless ensure thatindividuals with disabilities receive the benefits or services provided by the public entityto the maximum extent possible.

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Anysuch specific list that the Department could provide is unlikely to be helpful given therapid pace at which software and contractors’ availability changes. Public entities mayfind it useful to consult other publicly available resources that can assist in selectingaccessibility evaluation tools and experts. 170 Public entities do not need to wait for theDepartment’s guidance before consulting with technical experts and using resourcesthat already exist.

For example, atown may maintain an editable word processing file, such as a Google Docs file, thatlists the dates on which the town held town hall meetings. The town may post a link tothe document on its website so members of the public can view the document online ina web browser, and it may update the contents of the document over time afteradditional meetings take place. If the document was posted to the town’s website priorto the date it was required to comply with subpart H, it would be a preexistingconventional electronic document unless the town added new dates to the documentafter the date it was required to comply with subpart H. Nevertheless, there aresome circumstances where conventional electronic documents may be covered by theexception even if copies of the documents can be edited after the date the public entityis required to comply with subpart H. For example, a public entity may post a MicrosoftWord version of a flyer on its website prior to the date it is required to comply withsubpart H.

§ 35152 Jails, Detention And Correctional Facilities, And Community Correctional Facilities

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By contrast, venue owners and operators and others commented that the action on the sports field is self-explanatory and does not require captioning and they objected to an explicit requirement to provide real-time captioning for all information broadcast on the PA system at a sporting event. Other commenters objected to requiring captioning even for emergency and safety information over the scoreboard rather than through some other means. By contrast, venue operators, State government agencies, and some model code groups, including NFPA, commented that emergency and safety information must be provided in an accessible format and that public safety is a paramount concern. Other commenters argued that the best method to deliver safety and emergency information would be television monitors showing local TV broadcasts with captions already mandated by the FCC. Some commenters posited that the most reliable information about a major emergency would be provided on the television news broadcasts.

In addition, the final rule merges together some NPRM paragraphs that dealt with related topics and has reordered and renamed some of the paragraphs that were in the NPRM. According to the commenter, miniature horses are particularly effective for large stature individuals. The animals can be trained to stand (and in some cases, lie down) at the handler’s feet in venues where space is at a premium, such as assembly areas or inside some vehicles that provide public transportation. Some individuals with disabilities have traveled by train and have flown commercially with their miniature horses.

The Department received support for including traumatic brain injury and did not receive any comments recommending the removal of traumatic brain injury from the list; thus, we are retaining it in this final rule. The ADA as amended provides that the “regarded as” prong of the definition of “disability” does “not apply to impairments that are both transitory and minor.”  42 U.S.C. 12102(3)(B). “Transitory impairment” is defined as “an impairment with an actual or expected duration of six months or less.” Id. The statute does not define the term “minor.” Whether an impairment is both “transitory and minor” is a question of fact that is dependent upon individual circumstances. The ADA as amended contains no such provision with respect to the first two prongs of the definition of “disability”—“actual disability,” and “record of” disability. The application of the “transitory and minor” exception to the “regarded as” prong is addressed in §§ 35.108(f) and 36.105(f).

• Service animal means any dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of an individual with a disability, including a physical, sensory, psychiatric, intellectual, or other mental disability.
• They also asked for clarification on some issues in the 1991 regulations, such as the requirements regarding service animals.
• Several commenters recommended that the Department include more specificityregarding the methods by which public entities must make their services, programs, andactivities readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.
• The Department believes it would be inappropriate to deprive these individuals of the option of using a service dog of the size required to provide the physical support and stability these individuals may need to function independently.

Many organizations and individuals stated that in the general dog training community, “protection” is code for attack or aggression training and should be removed from the definition. Commenters stated that there appears to be a broadly held misconception that aggression-trained animals are appropriate service animals for persons with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While many individuals with PTSD may benefit by using a service animal, the work or tasks performed appropriately by such an animal would not involve unprovoked aggression but could include actively cuing the individual by nudging or pawing the individual to alert to the onset of an episode and removing the individual from the anxiety-provoking environment.

Some commenters noted that even if students were able to rely on others toassist them in reviewing inaccessible course materials, doing so is often slower and lesseffective, and can have a negative emotional effect on students, undermining theirsenses of independence and self-sufficiency. Some commenters contended that the proposed exceptions would perpetuate thestatus quo by inappropriately putting the onus on students (or parents) with disabilitiesto request accessible materials on an individualized basis. Some commenters assertedthat this can be problematic because some individuals may not recognize that they havean accessibility need that their school could accommodate and because requestingaccessible materials is sometimes burdensome and results in unfair stigma or invasionsof privacy.

Appendix A of the 1991 title III regulation, which is republished as Appendix D to 28 CFR part 36, contains the ADA Standards for Accessible Design (1991 Standards), which were based upon the version of the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines (1991 ADAAG) published by the Access Board on the same date. Under the Department’s 1991 title III regulation, places of public accommodation and commercial facilities currently are required to comply with the 1991 Standards with respect to newly constructed or altered facilities. The Department’s 1991 title II regulation gives public entities the option of complying with the Uniform Federal Accessibility Standards (UFAS) or the 1991 Standards with respect to newly constructed or altered facilities. The ADA also requires the Department to develop regulations with respect to existing facilities subject to title II (subtitle A) and title III. How and to what extent the Access Board’s guidelines are used with respect to the barrier removal requirement applicable to existing facilities under title III of theADA and to the provision of program accessibility under title II of the ADA are solely within the discretion of the Department.

Administrative practice and procedure, Buildings and facilities, Civil rights, Communications, Individuals with disabilities, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, State and local governments. Finally, commenters representing business interests expressed the view that the final rules would cause businesses to incur significant legal costs in order to defend ADA lawsuits. However, regulatory impact analyses are not an appropriate forum for assessing the cost covered entities may bear, or the repercussions they may face, for failing to comply (or allegedly failing to comply) with current law. As a result, in the first set of alternate IBC baseline analyses, the Final RIA assumes that all of the three IBC model codes—IBC 2000, IBC 2003, and IBC 2006—have been fully adopted by all jurisdictions and apply to all facilities nationwide. As with the primary baseline scenarios examined in the Final RIA, use of these three alternate IBC baselines results in positive expected NPVs in all cases.

The Department believes that the revised definition of “disability,” including, in particular, the provisions construing “substantially limits,” strikes the appropriate balance to effectuate Congress’s intent when it passed the ADA Amendments Act, and will not modify its regulatory language in response to these comments. Many commenters supported inclusion of this information as reiterating the statutory language evincing Congress’ intention “to restore a broad definition of ‘disability’ under the ADA….” Several commenters asked the Department to delete the last sentence in §§ 35.101(b) and 36.101(b), arguing that inclusion of this language is inconsistent with the individualized assessment required under the ADA. Some of these commenters acknowledged, however, that this language is drawn directly from the “Purposes” of the ADA Amendments Act. In addition to directly quoting the statute, the Department believes that this language neither precludes nor is inconsistent with conducting an individualized assessment of whether an individual is covered by the ADA.

While many commenters stated that they believe that the “minimal protection” language should be eliminated, other commenters recommended that the language be clarified, but retained. Commenters favoring clarification of the term suggested that the Department explicitly exclude the function of attack or exclude those animals that are trained solely to be aggressive or protective. Other commenters identified nonviolent behavioral tasks that could be construed as minimally protective, such as interrupting self-mutilation, providing safety checks and room searches, reminding the individual to take medications, and protecting the individual from injury resulting from seizures or unconsciousness. The Department sought public comment with regard to whether these steps would, in fact, achieve clarity on these issues.