Last evening, President Obama announced revised regulations to amend Titles II and III of the ADA. They include, but are not limited to, improved access to recreational facilities, access to tickets for accessible seating at stadiums and theaters, extended protection to the right to make accessible lodging reservations and extended ADA Title III protection to timeshare and condo properties which operate like hotels.
The department also published four new ADA proposals addressing the accessibility of websites, the provision of captioning and video description in movies shown in theaters, accessible equipment and furniture, and the ability of 9-1-1 centers to take text and video calls from individuals with disabilities.
You can read more here.
The President also signed an executive order to hire more federal employees with disabilities.
3 comments:
Thanks! I thought we already were street legal everywhere in the original ADA, so long as w/c / scooters are w/i certain parameters. An important reiteration, maybe?
Here's more specifics on allowing w/c and scooters; it looks like, more specifically, they'll be allowing Segways:
http://www.americantrails.org/resources/accessible/powermobilityquestions.html
It appears to my novice opinion that scooters will still be considered wheelchairs. I'm not sure how this 2-tier system will work.
The mention of "safety" concerns me since I thought originally people couldn't exclude b/c of concerns about safety. That could easily become an excuse for businesses.
Frida-
That's interesting about the Segways. I agree:the safety language is always a concern because of how it's open to abuse by those whose intent is to exclude.
For that reason, we need the broadest possible language in all drafted legislation.
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