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Titles 1-4 ADA Title I: Employment (800-669-4000 voice, 800-669-6820 TTY) Title I requires employers, including religious entities, with 15 or more employees to provide qualified individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from full range of employment-related opportunities available to others. ADA Title II: State and local government activities (800-514-0301 voice, 800-514-0383 TTY) Title II requires that state and local governments give people with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from all of their programs, services, and activities (e.g. Public education, employment, transportation, recreation, health care, social services, courts, voting, and town meetings). State and local governments are required to follow specific architectural standards in the new construction and alteration of their buildings. They also must relocate programs or otherwise provide access in inaccessible older buildings, and communicate effectively with people who have hearing, vision, or speech disabilities. ADA Title II: public transportation (888-446-4511 voice/relay) Public transportation authorities may not discriminate against people with disabilities in the provision of their services. ADA Title III: Public accommodations (800-514-0301 voice, 800-514- 0383 TTY) ADA Title III: Covers businesses and nonprofit service providers that are public accommodations, privately operated entities offering certain types of courses and examinations, privately operated transportation, and commercial facilities. Public accommodations must comply with basic nondiscrimination requirements that prohibit exclusion, segregation, and unequal treatment. They also must comply with specific requirements related to architectural standards for new and altered buildings; reasonable modifications to policies, practices, and procedures; effective communication with people with hearing, vision, or speech disabilities; and other access requirements. Additionally, public accommodations must remove barriers in existing buildings where it is easy to do so without much difficulty or expense, given the public accommodation’s resources. ADA Title IV: Telecommunications relay services (888-225-5322 voice, 888-835-5322 TTY) amended 1996. Title IV addresses telephone and television access for people with hearing and speech disabilities. Title IV also requires closed captioning of federally funded public service announcements. SOURCE: www.ada.gov |