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  2. Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973

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    Federal agencies can be in legal compliance and still not meet the technical standards. Section 508 §1194.3 General exceptions describe exceptions for national security (e.g., most of the primary systems used by the National Security Agency (NSA)), incidental items not procured as work products, individual requests for non-public access, fundamental alteration of a product's key requirements ...

  3. Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia

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    The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 or ADA (42 U.S.C. § 12101) is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability. It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , [ 1 ] which made discrimination based on race , religion , sex , national origin ...

  4. Privacy Act of 1974 - Wikipedia

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    Each agency's Data Integrity Board is supposed to make an annual report to OMB, available to the public, that includes all complaints that the Act was violated, such as use of records for unauthorized reasons or the holding of First Amendment Records and report on —…"(v) any violations of matching agreements that have been alleged or ...

  5. U.S. accuses L.A. County of violating ADA at voting locations

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    The Justice Department alleges that L.A. County routinely violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The county disputes the allegations.

  6. L.A. County reaches settlement with Justice Department over ...

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    L.A. County agreed to hire an expert to make its voting sites more accessible to voters with disabilities as part of a settlement announced Thursday with the U.S. Department of Justice.

  7. Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - Wikipedia

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    The ADA can be viewed as picking up where 504 left off, handling the more difficult, complex situations. [18] Using Section 504 as a template, the framers of the ADA sought to extend provisions that now applied to government to much of the private sector (notably private employers, stores, hotels, and restaurants).

  8. Deaf prisoners in TN lacked interpreters, videophones in ...

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    July 11, 2024 at 3:37 PM. A federal judge this week ruled that Tennessee prisons violated the Americans with Disabilities Act and an anti-discrimination law by failing to provide sign language ...

  9. Web accessibility - Wikipedia

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    Web accessibility, or eAccessibility, [1] is the inclusive practice of ensuring there are no barriers that prevent interaction with, or access to, websites on the World Wide Web by people with physical disabilities, situational disabilities, and socio-economic restrictions on bandwidth and speed. When sites are correctly designed, developed and ...