“ADA: The Next Generation”
The National ADA Coordinators are putting on webinars on the new ADA, and we can view them as a group. Abadi Accessibility and ARS purchased the webinars and want to share them with you.
Each webinar is $10 and below is the agenda. If you have any questions, call me at 214-403-8714
Webinar Agendas
Session 1 – ADA Standards – Admin provisions; Accessible Routes; & Building Blocks
Wednesday, 11/3/2010, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
At Sitelark 5000 Quorum Ste 100, Dallas, Tx
Overview of the new ADA Standards;
What has been clarified, added, dropped, or changed from the 1991 Standards?
Equivalent facilitation, tolerances, and the expanded definitions section.
How will changes affect different facility types?
• Significant scoping and technical requirement changes:
Accessible routes
Accessible means of egress
Stairways
Elevators, platform lifts, LULAs, and private residence elevators
Doors, doorways, and gates
Floor and ground surfaces
Changes in level
Ramps and curb ramps
Turning spaces
Clear floor and ground spaces
Knee and toe spaces
Protruding objects
Reach ranges
Operable parts
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Session 2 – ADA Standards – Common Space & Element Types; and Communications
Wednesday, 11/10/2010, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
At the Miele Showroom 1700 Oak Lawn Avenue Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75207
What has been clarified, added, dropped, or changed from the 1991 Standards?
How will changes affect different facility types?
Significant scoping and technical requirement changes:
Common space types including
Parking spaces and passenger loading zones
Dressing, fitting, and locker rooms
Common element types including
Dining surfaces and work surfaces
Storage elements
Benches
Handrails
Windows (this is completely new)
Automatic teller machines and fare machines
Check-out aisles, sales and service counters
Depositories, vending machines, change machines, mail boxes, and fuel dispensers
Communications systems and devices including
Telephones
Signs
Fire alarm systems
Assistive listening systems
Two-way communication systems (this is also new)
Detectable warnings
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Session 3 – ADA Standards – Toilets, Bathing, Kitchens and Plumbing Elements
Wednesday, 11/17/2010, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
At the Miele Showroom 1700 Oak Lawn Avenue Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75207
In many facility types, these requirements are some of the most critical to the users. Significant changes have made certain sections stricter and others less restrictive than the 1991 Standards.
The 1991 Standard allowed six by six and five by seven foot single user toilet rooms. What are the smallest configurations a single user toilet room can have under the new Standards?
How do these requirements compare to the IBC and ICC/ANSI A117.1 Accessibility Standards?
How will these changes affect different facility types?
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Session 4 – ADA Standards – Specialized Rooms, Spaces and Elements including Recreation and Residential
Wednesday, 12/1/2010, 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm
(This session may be extended beyond 1 ½ hours)
Location:
HALFF Associates Inc. Office (214.346.6200) – 1201 North Bowser Road / Richardson, Texas 75081 – Coordinated by Ms. Joni Caldwell – 214.346.6310
Many new sections covering whole new facility types have been added in the 2010 ADA Standards. Two common facility types no longer have their own sections. Some VERY significant changes and clarifications have been made in those sections that were already included in the 1991 Standards. What has changed and how must those changes be incorporated into new, altered, and existing facilities?
If residential facilities are not (typically) covered by the ADA, why are there new standards for them? How do the covered residential facility types correlate with the ADA transient lodging and Fair Housing requirements?
Significant scoping and technical requirement changes:
Transportation facilities
Assembly areas
Medical care and long-term care facilities
Transient lodging guest rooms
Transportation facilities
Completely new sections:
o Judicial facilities and courtrooms
o Detention and correctional facilities
o Holding and housing cells
o Residential dwelling units and facilities
o Recreational facilities including amusement rides, exercise machines and equipment; boating, fishing, golf and miniature golf facilities, play areas, swimming pools and spas.
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Session 5: Overview of Title II and Title III Regulations, Part I
December 8, 2010 12:00-1:30 (Recorded)
At the Miele Showroom 1700 Oak Lawn Avenue Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75207
Overview of the new rules;
Service animals: Emotional support animals aren’t service animals, but what about animals that assist people with psychiatric disabilities?
Segways and service animals: What questions can you ask about either one, and when can you say “no”?
Effective communication: can you use video interpreting services, how, and when? How do the new provisions on automated phone systems and relay calls affect you?
DOJ’s separate notices on electronic/web communication, theater captioning/video description, and next generation 9-1-1;
Testing and licensing, with a focus on documentation; and transitioning/ time frames.
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Session 6: Overview of Title II and Title III Regulations, Part II
Wednesday Dec. 15, 2010 12:00-1:30 (Recorded)
At the Miele Showroom 1700 Oak Lawn Avenue Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75207
Overview of the new rules;
New construction and alterations: how these now overlap with barrier removal and program access;
Making sense of the DOJ-drafted provisions in tandem with the Access Board’s Guidelines;
New definition of “place of lodging” and implications under both titles (for higher education, shelters, and others);
Hotel reservations, assembly event ticketing and seating;
The new element-by-element safe harbor;
DOJ’s notice of its intent to regulate furniture and equipment;
Certification of state codes: if you comply with a code certified before 2010, does it “count”? Should you urge your state to go for certification, under relaxed new procedures? and,
Compliance and enforcement: DOJ can now retain Title II complaints for investigation, rather than sending them to “designated agencies.” What are the implications?
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Session 7: Planning for the transition and beyond, and using the safe harbors
Wednesday, 12/22/2010, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm (Recorded)
At the Miele Showroom 1700 Oak Lawn Avenue Suite 200 Dallas, Texas 75207
What should you do first to get to policy compliance within the six month deadline?
Is it time for a do-over? Do you need to do a new or revised self-evaluation, transition plan, or barrier removal plan? If you don’t think you have to, should you anyway?
How safe are the “safe harbors” under Title II and Title III? Are you “grandfathered” out?
Is there any advantage to doing barrier removal in the next 6 or 18 months, under the 1991 Standards, versus using the 2010 Standards?
Is this a sleeper provision? They call it “maintenance,” but it addresses reducing access below 1991 Standards. How and when are reductions allowed?
What can you learn from the preamble (analysis) and the appendices, with their helpful explanations and drawings? How do they relate to the requirements themselves?
How do you ensure compliance with all applicable laws, including state and local codes and ordinances?
Do the new provisions apply under section 504 too? Or should state and local governments and others who receive federal funds, and federal agencies, continue to follow the 504 rules?
In keeping with the theme of my past two posts, children are now part of the ADA. In the 1991 version of the Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines, did not have any provisions for children. So even though facilities were accessible to different disabilities, there were still barriers for children.
In 1994 Texas adopted the Texas Accessibility Standards and added an entire section just for children. Section 2 of TAS shows how high drinking fountains, water closets, lavatories and grab bars need to be mounted…among other things. So for the past 16 years, Texas has been designing for children with disabilities.
Now the 2004 ADAAG has several places throughout the standards that gives you specific requirement for children.
The ADA Companion Guide shows examples and gives commentary on how the guidelines came to adopt the children’s requirements.
Section 102 tells us:
“The technical requirements are based on adult dimensions and anthropometrics. In addition, this document includes technical requirements based on children’s dimensions and anthropometrics for drinking fountains, water closets, toilet compartments, lavatories and sinks, dining surfaces, and work surfaces.”
New items that are also scoped for children, is play areas! Now instead of just requiring an accessible route up to the equipment, the components within the play area will have to comply. The requirements are lengthy, so we will be more specific in a different post.
Amusement rides are required to be accessible, but there is an exception 234.3 Exception 2 that states if rides are designed for children where adults put them on or take them off do not have to have a separate accessible loading area. But of course, it can be done, as we saw on my last post about
Morgan’s Wonderland where all can ride indepently.
Besides the scoping for what is required to comply, we also have reach ranges specific for children. Section 308 has a table just for children’s reach ranges.
Drinking fountain requirements for children are found in chapter 6 602.2 Exception which says that children don’t have to have a knee space, but can use a parallel approach for the drinking fountain. The spout must be at 30″ a.f.f. and 3 1/2″ max from the front edge.
Water closets, toilet compartments, grab bars and dispenser heights for children are found in Section 604.9 and there is a table that we use according to the different age groups.
Section 606 Lavatories and Sinks states that a knee clearance of 24″ min. a.f.f. under a sink for children 6-12 is required. Rim or counter shall be 31″ maximum high. And children five years old and younger can have a parallel approach.
So when the new ADA is required (March 15, 2012) children will be counted and will be given similar standards than the adults. Just like the old standards gave more independence and dignity to the adults with disabilities, the new guidelines now give more independence and dignity to our disabled children!