Sample Worksheet - Workplace Issues

[ADA Worksheet - Part II]

  1. Would it be a reasonable accommodation to provide a blind student with a student reader and typist?
  2. Should a potential student who cannot be provided with a reasonable accommodation be denied admission into a degree program?
  3. Is it unreasonable if the reasonable accommodation for a handicapped student negatively impacts other students? For example if the number of students that can be accommodated in a laboratory is significantly reduced?
  4. Who defines (accepts) that a person is disabled?
  5. Is it necessary to provide accessibility before any disabled student arrives?
  6. Would it be a satisfactory accommodation to provide computer access for disabled students in some other facility than the general computer laboratory?
  7. If reasonable accommodations cannot be made would be necessary to restrict all student access to the maximum degree that access could be provided to disabled students?
  8. Would it be necessary to make accommodations in a public library for a person with Alzheimer's disease?
  9. Did you find any references to "assistive technology"? If so, how would this overcome barriers that you identified in the audits?
  10. Is "assistive technology" a means of developing "reasonable accommodations"?
  11. Should software developers be required to produce alternative implementations that are "reasonable accommodations"? Should such users be required to pay the extra costs of such versions, or should the cost be amortized over the total sales?
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