AMERICAN DISABILITIES ACT

Kawther Alogaili
CIS 221
September 9, 2018
 WHAT IS ADA?
People whose unable to do certain work in some
condition.
Protected in 1990.
Equality between the people.
Civil Rights.
A piece of legislation.
GOVERNMENT SPENDING IN THE 2023
U.S. MANDATORY SPENDING
Other, 4%
Veteran Benefits , 4%

Medicaid, 15%
Social Security, 38%

Income Security, 16%

Medicare, 23%
 WHAT IS THE TITLE II OF ADA?

Protects individual disabilities.

Funds and benefits (SSA) and (SSI).
Protects against discrimination.
Provides plays, and sporting events.
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/general-
info.htm
TITLE II OF ADA
 WHAT ARE SOME EXAMPLE OF ADA?

Alcoholism.
Asthma.
Cancer.
Depression.
Diabetes.
Blindness.
 CHANGING RULES

American Disabilities

54%
60%

40%
14% 13%
20% 3%
% Data
0%
Difficulity Seeing Blind or Unable to see Difficulity Walk Difficulity Hearing

% Data
THE EQUAL RIGHTS
 WHAT IS THE ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY?

Provides useful electronic items.

Increasing the ability to learn.
Improving the functional capabilities of ADA
students.
Increase communication capacities.
 FLASHING AND BLINKING

Provide useful technique.

Can be unsafe.
Test the content for safety.
Avoid of using flash or flickers.
https://www.washington.edu/accessibility/checklist/flashing-content/
WHAT IS AN ALT TAG?
oProvide information for
images.
oSpecify alternative text or
images.
oDescription of a content.
oUses for people who can not
see the images on a browser.
 WHAT “GHOTIT” TECHNOLOGY
A company that provide Apps and Websites
. Provide tools for learning.
Spelling and grammar.
Accessible technology for disabilities people.
Helps for internet accessible.
Provides reading assistance.
https://www.boia.org/blog/how-does-ghotit-help-people-with-dyslexia-access-the-
internet
 WHAT THE “READ&WRITE”?

Support students in their reading and writing.

Students express themselves.
Improving their learning.
Improving their language.
Accessible at school, college, home.
 CAPTIONING ADDS ACCESSIBILITY
Effective demonstration to disability learners.
Importance of good captioning and translating.
Close captioning make is easy to disability people.
Important sources of learning.
Respected content creator.
Providing useful way of learning to disability people.
 SOURCES
https://adata.org/learn-about-ada
https://www.ada.gov/ada_title_II.htm
https://www.ssa.gov/disability/professionals/bluebook/general-info.htm
https://www.disabilitysecrets.com/resources/disability/short-term-disability-
laws/does-americans-disabilities-act-ada-cover-short