The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed by President George Bush in 1990, protects people with disabilities from discrimination in employment, government programs and services, public accommodations, transportation, and telecommunications. The ADA is a landmark civil rights law, with rules on everything from ramps and other building accessibility issues to emergency telephone services, paratransit, workplace accommodations, and more. It seeks to ensure that people with disabilities will have access to the services and buildings -- as well as all of the rights and privileges -- that are vital to public life.
ADA Basics
Learn how the ADA and similar laws protect applicants and employees from disability discrimination.
Learn about the ADA and other laws that outlaw disability discrimination.
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination in employment, public accommodations, and more.
Learn the basics about the ADA.
What's a disability, who is qualified for a job, and what's a reasonable accommodation? Learn the answers here.
Employers, take note of these benefits to providing disability training in the workplace.
Not every impairment or condition is a covered disability.
Most temporary and short-term ailments don't qualify as disabilities, unless disabling complications arise.
Learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, generally qualify as disabilities under the ADA, if they limit a major life activity.
Because hearing is a major life activity, employees who are deaf or have significant hearing impairment has disabilities under the ADA.
A cognitive disability is a condition that significantly affects either learning, remembering, communicating, thinking, or making decisions.
Reasonable Accommodations
Learn about the changes your employer may be obligated to make to accommodate your disability.
Only employees and applicants who can perform a job's essential functions are protected from discrimination.
The Americans with Disabilities Act gives employees the right to a reasonable accommodation.
Learn when you are entitled to an accommodation -- and what to do if you don't get one.
Enforcing Your ADA Rights
What to do if you are facing workplace disability discrimination.
If you have been fired, denied a job, or mistreated at work because of your disability, see a lawyer right away.
Do you have a legal claim?
The EEOC enforces federal discrimination laws, including the ADA.
You asked, and we answered: If you want to file a disability discrimination complaint, go to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Learn the steps to take to assert your rights under the ADA.