Job Accommodation Network

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1. Is nondiscriminatory treatment, equally afforded to other individuals, given directly or through contractual licensing or other arrangements to people with disabilities in the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations offered?

2. Are the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, or accommodations provided differently or separately to individuals with disabilities and individuals without disabilities?

3. Are the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations offered to individuals with disabilities in the most integrated setting appropriate to the needs of the specific individuals in question?

4. If separate or different programs or activities are provided for individuals with disabilities, may those individuals still participate in the activities that are not separate or different?

5. Do you use, directly and/or through contractual or other arrangements, standards, criteria, or methods of administration that do not have the effect of discrimination by others?

6. Are people with friends, associates, or relatives with a disability provided foods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, accommodations, and other opportunities on a nondiscriminatory basis?

7. Do your eligibility criteria screen in, not out, individuals with disabilities (unless such criteria can be shown to be necessary for the provision of goods, services, etc., being offered)?

8. Are reasonable modifications made to policies, practices, or procedures, when such modifications are necessary to offer goods or services, etc., to individuals with disabilities?

9. Are people with disabilities included, allowed services, integrated, and otherwise treated the same as others through the provision of auxiliary aids and services?

10. Are architectural barriers and communication barriers that are structural in nature (including permanent, temporary, or movable structures, such as furniture, equipment, and display racks) removed from existing facilities?

11. Where removal of a barrier is not "readily achievable," are the goods, services, etc., made available through alternative methods?

12. Has new construction with first occupancy after Jan. 26, 1993, been designed to be readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities?

13. If you are altering a facility, have alterations been made in such a manner that, to the maximum extent feasible, the altered portions of the facility are readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs?