Reference no: EM131089469
please review the following links:
Main US DOJ ADA Gateway site: https://www.ada.gov/ (Links to an external site.)
ADA Enforcement website: https://www.ada.gov/enforce_activities.htm (Links to an external site.)
Cases after 2006 regarding Title III: https://www.ada.gov/enforce_current.htm#TitleIII (Links to an external site.)
Cases before 2006 regarding Title III: https://www.ada.gov/enforce_archive.htm#TitleIII (Links to an external site.)
ADA New Lodging Regulations: https://www.ada.gov/introchk.pdf
On the ADA Enforcement website (screenshot below), you may find it helpful to click on the "Enforcement" link on the far right of the dark blue bar or use the search box (above "Enforcement") to search for the information you need for a court case to review (i.e., ADA New Lodging
Regulations . . .Hint Hint from Linda Ralston!).
Please reflect on all of the following questions in this assignment:
1. What is the difference between the ADA and Universal Design? Why are both needed today?
2. Using the ADA?? (Links to an external site.), what are the ADA standards for doors and doorways for guest rooms at hotels in the United States? Please write your response using bullet points.
Specifically, width, clearance, and door hardware & latch requirements.
How many accessible guest rooms--including rooms for those with hearing impairments--are required for a hotel of 100 rooms? (Hint: Read the fine print!)
3. What types of issues or accessibility problems in recreation-related businesses have been investigated by the United States Department of Justice? Please review of the ADA?? (Links to an external site.) webpages to find out.
4. Based on the information in the Universal Design material and the websites you visited during the previous modules, list all seven principles of Universal Design. Then read the examples below, and identify one additional example for each of the seven UD principles that are specific to recreation and leisure environments and activities.
Equitable Use
Example: A basketball hoop that can be raised and lowered easily.
Flexibility in Use
Example: A curtain in the dressing area of the locker room to separate cubicles.
Simple and Intuitive Use
Example: Sign up procedures for classes at the local Y which can be done in several ways: fax, phone, in person, via e-mail, or at the facility by a personal computer.
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Bookkeeping of the supply-side elements
: What do we call the bookkeeping of the supply-side elements such as productivity and labor inputs that contribute to changes in real GDP over some specific time period?
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Quantity of labor employed to produce
: What is total output divided by the quantity of labor employed to produce it; the average product of labor or output per hour of work?
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Experienced sustained increases in real gdp
: What do we call the historically recent phenomenon in which nations for the first time have experienced sustained increases in real GDP per capita?
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Method for determining the number of years
: What do we call a method for determining the number of years it will take for some measure to double, given its annual percentage increase (Divide 70 by annual rate of inflation to get the number of years it will take price level to double)?
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What is the difference between the ada and universal design
: Based on the information in the Universal Design material and the websites you visited during the previous modules, list all seven principles of Universal Design. Then read the examples below, and identify one additional example for each of the se..
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The new computer-controlled conveyor belt
: The new computer-controlled conveyor belt is an exciting project that moves and positions items on a conveyor belt with a high degree of accuracy (
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Number of dollars received by an individual or group
: What do we call the number of dollars received by an individual or group for its resources during some period of time?
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Cost of a particular level of output
: What do you call the average production cost of a particular level of output; total input cost divided by units of output?
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Percent of potential output
: What do we call the generalization that any 1 % point rise in the unemployment rate about the full-employment unemployment rate is associated with a rise in the negative GDP gap by 2 percent of potential output (potential GDP)?
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