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ADA
Partners’ Project
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The Americans with Disabilities Act was signed into law on July
26, 1990. It was the fulfillment of a decades long effort by a coalition of
disability organizations. The law is a reasoned and reasonable response to a
systematic, entrenched, persistent, and crippling systemic discrimination
against individuals with disabilities in all aspects of American
society. The
Americans with Disabilities Act gives guidance to state and local
governments, private business, and transportation systems in removing attitudinal
and architectural barriers which tend to exclude people with disabilities
from full participation in American life. The
Americans with Disabilities Act defines as discrimination the failure to
remove barriers that prevent access, by individuals with disabilities, to
state and local government programs, services and activities, private
business, and transportation systems. |