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These topic overviews are a basic starting point for understanding areas the ADA covers including service animals, parking and effective communication.| ADA.gov
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The Department of Justice published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) explaining how we propose updating the regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to lay out specific requirements for the accessibility of Medical Diagnostic Equipment (MDE).| ADA.gov
Information for election officials make polling places accessible as well as for people with disabilities about how the ADA protects their right to vote.| ADA.gov
Information for child welfare agencies and family courts about their obligations to people with disabilities to receive equal access to parenting opportunities.| ADA.gov
This page discusses how state/local governments can ensure their emergency planning and management programs are accessible for persons with disabilities.| ADA.gov
How state/local governments that provide services to people with disabilities must offer those services in people’s homes and communities—not just institutions.| ADA.gov
Information to ensure equal access for all children to child care programs so they are not turned away based on their disability.| ADA.gov
This guide includes suggested steps that ADA Coordinators and others working with state and local governments may want to take as they plan to ensure that their web content and mobile apps comply with the ADA Title II rule on the accessibility of web content and mobile apps.| ADA.gov
COVID-19 and the Americans with Disabilities Act —view information about streateries and medical setting visitor policies.| ADA.gov
This document provides guidance for medical care providers on the requirements of the ADA in medical settings with respect to people with mobility disabilities.| ADA.gov
The guide will help small state and local governments to understand the web rule’s requirements for making sure their web content and mobile apps are accessible.| ADA.gov
These topic overviews are a basic starting point for understanding areas the ADA covers including service animals, parking and effective communication.| ADA.gov
The ADA provides an important tool to fight discrimination: filing a complaint with an appropriate federal agency. This page outlines the steps to do so.| ADA.gov
Phone number for the ADA Information Line. Accessibility specialists are available to answer questions about the ADA.| ADA.gov
This page provides some basic information about Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and the ADA’s protections for people with OUD.| ADA.gov
The ADA requires state and local governments including their criminal justice agencies to comply with the ADA. If you are part of a criminal justice agency or a person with a disability, there are many aspects of the ADA that you should be familiar with.| ADA.gov
This document discusses and explains the requirements of the ADA’s integration mandate and the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel. Zimring, 527 U.S. 581 (1999), as applied to segregated employment settings and facility-based day programs. In addition, this document provides a link to the Department’s Federal Register notice, which provides more information about this guidance.| ADA.gov
This document contains information for people with disabilities seeking employment. It provides a general explanation of the employment provisions of the ADA and how to file a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.| ADA.gov
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This guidance explains how algorithms and artificial intelligence can lead to disability discrimination in hiring.| ADA.gov
Title III of the ADA - regulations for businesses, including nonprofits meant to ensure that people with disabilities can access places of business and public accommodation.| ADA.gov
This document features questions and answers raised by police departments regarding officers rights related to hiring officers under the ADA.| ADA.gov
This document provides general guidance to assist State and local governments in understanding and complying with the ADA’s requirements.| ADA.gov
Detailed guidance documents explaining the rights and responsibilities under the ADA and the Department’s regulations related to topics the ADA covers including service animals, health care and more.| ADA.gov
This fact sheet gives a plain language summary of the technical standards that state and local governments would have to follow to meet their existing obligations under Title II of the ADA.| ADA.gov
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This document provides guidance and answers about the ADA’s service animal provisions.| ADA.gov
Information to help businesses or people with a disabilities get started familiarizing themselves with the ADA.| ADA.gov
Communicating successfully is essential to providing services to the public or doing business. People with certain disabilities might communicate in different ways.| ADA.gov
This publication is designed to provide military service members who have been seriously wounded while serving a basic understanding of their rights under the ADA and where to turn for additional information and assistance.| ADA.gov
This document serves a model for law enforcement agencies when adopting a policy on effective communication with people who are deaf or hard of hearing.| ADA.gov
This document provides guidance to both persons with disabilities and law enforcement agencies regarding their rights and responsibilities under the ADA.| ADA.gov
A publication within the Business Brief series explaining specific ADA issues that are designed to be printed and distributed to hotel employees.| ADA.gov
A publication within the Business Brief series explaining methods and requirements of providing effective communication in a hospital setting.| ADA.gov
A publication within the Business Brief series explaining methods and requirements of providing effective communication at a gas stations.| ADA.gov
A publication explaining the requirements for direct, equal access to 9-1-1 for persons who use teletypewriters (TTYs).| ADA.gov
If you are part of a state/local government program or a person with a disability, there are many aspects of the ADA that you should be familiar with.| ADA.gov
Information about the rights of people with disabilities who use mobility devices such as walkers, wheelchairs, or other power-driven devices to get around.| ADA.gov
Information about the features of accessible car and van parking spaces and how many accessible spaces are required when parking facilities are restriped.| ADA.gov
This document provides answers to some common questions regarding requirements in the 2010 regulations and Standards as they apply to public accommodations with existing pools.| ADA.gov
Guidance on the rules for power driven mobility devices for State and local governments, and businesses and non-profit organizations that serve the public.| ADA.gov
A publication explaining what hotels, motels, and other places of transient lodging can do to accommodate guests who are blind or have low vision.| ADA.gov
This publication is designed to answer questions and offer common sense suggestions to assist law enforcement agencies in complying with the ADA.| ADA.gov
This document outlines common problems shared by city governments of all sizes and provides examples of common deficiencies and explains how these problems affect persons with disabilities.| ADA.gov
The Department of Justice published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on July 20, 2023 explaining how we propose updating the regulations for Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to add more specific requirements about web and mobile application accessibility. This fact sheet gives a plain language summary of the technical standards that state and local governments would have to follow to meet their existing obligations under Title II of the ADA.| ADA.gov
This technical assistance guide is created to assist individuals in understanding their rights and public entities in understanding their obligations under the ADA and Olmstead.| ADA.gov
This guidance is designed to help title II and title III entities understand how new ADA requirements for swimming pools apply to them.| ADA.gov
This publication is designed to help title II and title III entities understand how the rules for effective communication apply to them.| ADA.gov
Guidance on nondiscrimination requirements that apply to selling tickets for assigned seats at events such as concerts, plays, and sporting events.| ADA.gov
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in everyday activities.| ADA.gov
Information about how the ADA can protect individuals with OUD from discrimination — an important part of combating the opioid epidemic.| ADA.gov
Overview of the ADA’s explanation of what businesses and governments must do to make sure that they do not discriminate against people who use service animals.| ADA.gov
The text of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), including changes made by the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.| ADA.gov
The ADA requires businesses, non-profits, and state/local governments to provide parking spaces accessible to people with disabilities.| ADA.gov
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The 2010 Standards set minimum requirements – both scoping and technical – for newly designed and constructed or altered State and local government facilities, public accommodations, and commercial facilities to be readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities.| ADA.gov
The ADA Standards for Accessible Designs say what is required for a building or facility to be physically accessible to people with disabilities.| ADA.gov
Regulations developed by the Department of Justice that explain the rights of people with disabilities and the obligations of those covered by the law.| ADA.gov
Guidance on how state and local governments and businesses open to the public can make sure their websites are in line with the ADA’s requirements.| ADA.gov
