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2004 Accessibility Guidelines (ADA/ABA)
Six contact hours (CEH’s, PDH’s)
AIA Course Number 10AC06 (6 Learning Units)
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES: Did you know that the latest
Accessibility Guidelines (2004)
from the United States Access Board are already Standards for Accessible
Design for some
federal agencies? The U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) has yet to
adopt the Guidelines as Standards for the Americans with Disabilities
Act (ADA) though, but there are always rumors about their doing so.
Indeed, before such an adoption can occur, many difficult issues must be
resolved concerning how to apply the Standards to existing facilities,
to new construction, and to altered facilities. Seminar 10AC06 will look
at the 2004 Access Board’s ADA/ABA Accessibility Guidelines, as well as,
at the USDOJ’s Proposed Regulations to see what sorts of questions are
being asked and what sorts of solutions are being considered. If the
2004 Guidelines become Standards for the ADA before seminar 10AC06 is
taught, then we will work from the actual regulations. The core
document for the seminar will be the ADA and ABA Accessibility
Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities.
GOALS:
Seminar 10AC06 is designed to help ensure that
participants:
1. Understand from discussion
some of the key differences between the current ADA
Standards and the 2004 ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines;
2. Recognize from discussion and
exercises some of the difficult problems that can occur
when standards are updated;
3. Understand from discussion
and handout material some of the proposed solutions to
problems with updating standards; and
4. Recognize from discussion and
handout materials why merging federal accessibility
standards is so complicated.
WHAT TO
BRING? Each
participant should bring a copy of the 1994 ADAAG and a copy of
the ADA and ABA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities.
This free document is available for download at
http://www.access-board.gov/ada-aba/final.pdf.
Each participant
should also bring a calculator, a writing instrument, and an AIA number
(if the participant is a member of the AIA). If you are trying to travel
“light”, you will be able to follow along well enough with your 1994
ADAAG.
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