Employment
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title I prohibits
discrimination in the workplace against people with disabilities.
Section 501 of the Rehabilitation Act requires affirmative
action and nondiscrimination in employment by federal agencies
of the executive branch.
Section 503 of the Rehabilitation
Act requires affirmative action and prohibits employment
discrimination by Federal government contractors and subcontractors
with contracts of more than $10,000.
Section 188 of the Workforce Investment Act prohibits discrimination
against people with disabilities in employment service centers
funded by the federal government.
State and Local Government Programs & Services
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title II prohibits
discrimination in the provision of public benefits and services
(e.g. public education, employment, transportation, recreation,
health care, social services, courts, voting, and town meetings).
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act prohibits discrimination
on the basis of disability in programs conducted by federal
agencies and in programs receiving federal financial assistance.
Public Accommodations / Businesses
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title III prohibits
discrimination by businesses and non-profit service providers
that are public accommodations, privately operated entities
offering certain types of courses and examinations, privately
operated transportation, and commercial facilities.
Architectural Barriers Act (ABA) requires that buildings
and facilities that are designed, constructed, or altered
with Federal funds, or leased by a Federal agency, comply
with Federal standards for physical accessibility.
Housing
Fair Housing Act prohibits
discrimination in any aspect of selling, renting or denying
housing on the basis of disability. Owners are further required
to make reasonable accommodations in their housing policies
to afford equal housing opportunities to those with disabilities.
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title II prohibits
discrimination by public housing authorities and other state
and local government housing.
Americans with Disabilities Act: Title III
does not apply to regular privately owned residential dwelling
units. However, it does apply to residences that are also
public accommodations such as nursing homes and school dorms.
In addition, parts of residential facilities that serve a
group of people or the public might be considered public accommodations
such as a swimming pool or a sales and leasing office.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act prohibits discrimination by public housing authorities
that receive federal funds, cities and towns that receive
Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) or other federal
funds, private for profit or non-profit housing developers
that receive federal funds, and colleges and universities
that receive federal funds (student housing).
Architectural Barriers Act applies accessibility standards
to housing constructed with the help of federal funding.
Education
Individuals
with Disabilities Education Act ( IDEA ) requires public
primary and secondary schools to make available to all eligible
children with disabilities a free appropriate public education
in the least restrictive environment appropriate to their
individual needs.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities
in primary, secondary and post secondary schools receiving
federal financial assistance.
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title II prohibits
discrimination against students with disabilities in all educational
institutions which receive funding from a state or local governmental
entity.
Americans with Disabilities Act: Title III
prohibits discrimination against students with disabilities
in private schools.
Travel/Transportation
Americans with Disabilities Act: Title II
prohibits discrimination in transportation provided by state
and local governmental entities such as bus, railway, subway,
and other forms of ground transportation.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation
Act prohibits discrimination in transportation services
that receive federal funding.
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title III prohibit
discrimination in privately operated transportation services
such as limousines and hotel shuttle services.
Air Carrier Access Act
prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in air
travel. It applies only to air carriers that provide regularly
scheduled services for hire to the public. Requirements address
a wide range of issues including boarding assistance and certain
accessibility features in newly built aircraft and new or
altered airport facilities.
Technology / Telecommunications
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act requires federal agencies
to make their electronic and information technology accessible
to people with disabilities.
Americans
with Disabilities Act: Title IV requires
telephone companies to establish telecommunications relay
services for callers with hearing and speech disabilities.
Title IV also requires closed captioning
of federally funded public service announcements.
Section 255 of the Telecommunications
Act requires manufacturers of telecommunications equipment
and providers of telecommunications services to ensure that
such equipment and services are accessible to and usable by
persons with disabilities, if readily achievable. It ensures
that people with disabilities will have access to a broad
range of products and services such as telephones, cell phones,
pagers, call-waiting, and operator services, that were often
inaccessible to many users with disabilities.
Guide to Disability Laws
Americans
with Disabilities Act
- Title I - Employment
- Title II - Housing - Education
- Title II - Title III - Travel/Transportation
- Education
- Title IV - Technology / Telecommunications
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