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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a 1990 civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. It aims to ensure that people with disabilities have equal opportunities and access to all aspects of American society. Title II of the ADA protects individuals with mental or physical impairments from discrimination by public entities like state and local governments. It covers their activities, programs, and services. The ADA defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. Assistive technologies like captioning and sip-and-puff devices help people with disabilities perform everyday tasks and communicate.

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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a 1990 civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities. It aims to ensure that people with disabilities have equal opportunities and access to all aspects of American society. Title II of the ADA protects individuals with mental or physical impairments from discrimination by public entities like state and local governments. It covers their activities, programs, and services. The ADA defines a disability as a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities. Assistive technologies like captioning and sip-and-puff devices help people with disabilities perform everyday tasks and communicate.

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American with

Disabilities Act

By Batoul Mochaimech
What is the Americans with
Disabilities Act?

ADA, short for Americans with Disabilities Act

a civil rights law, this law that became an official law in 1990

a law to prohibit discrimination against individuals with disabilities.

This law was made to show that people with disabilities are equal and have the
same opportunities as any other individual in this society.
Title ll of the Americans with
Disabilities Act

Protects individuals with disabilities

Individuals with mental or physical impairments are protected

Covers public entities that include any State or local government

Activities of police departments town meetings, and employment are


covered by Title II of the ADA

The individual should have a record of being physically or mentally


disabled
Disabilities covered by ADA and Title II

Blindness organic brain syndrome


Deafness anatomical loss that affects speech
Mental disabilities organs
learning disabilities
Assistive Technology

Devices made for people with disabilities to help them complete their everyday
tasks
Improve the ability of students with disabilities
Supports learning
Helps people with hearing problems, or language disorder communicate
Students with disabilities can participate more like any other students
Captioning YouTube videos

videos will be more understandable to users


captioning videos would make people with
hearing difficulties read and understand the
videos
Also captions can be beneficial for people
with mental problems and need to read not
only listen to the videos
alt tag

blinking/flashing content
Sip-and-Puff

Used by people who cant move their hands

Used to control a motorized wheelchair and other devices

Users can control their device sipping and puffing air using a mouth tube
Sip-and-puff is used to control motorized wheelchair it also allows disabled
individuals to control the cursor movements on computers
Hearing Loss in America

45 to 64
14%
15% 6 to 9
References

http://www.3playmedia.com/2016/03/05/the-future-of-video-captioning-according-
to-google/

https://www.ada.gov/t2hlt95.htm

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