Example – An employer might have to provide special equipment (such as an adapted keyboard for someone with arthritis or a large screen for a visually impaired workers), an adapted telephone for someone with a hearing impairment, or other modified equipment for disabled workers (such as longer handles on a machine).
Reasonable modifications can include structural changes to interiors and exteriors of dwellings and to common and public use areas. Examples include the installation of a ramp into a building, lowering the entry threshold of a unit, or the installation of grab bars in a bathroom.
Our boss has reasonable expectations of his employees. The team has a reasonable chance of winning. He makes a reasonable amount of money. The store's prices are reasonable.
Examples of reasonable accommodations include providing interpreters, readers, or other personal assistance; modifying job duties; restructuring work sites; providing flexible work schedules or work sites (i.e. telework) and providing accessible technology or other workplace adaptive equipment.
Generally, the provision of personal services or personal aids, such as legal assistance, a personal assistant, assistance with personal matters (such as restroom or personal hygiene assistance), providing eyeglasses or personal hearing aids are not considered reasonable accommodations.
In this chapter, accommodations are organized into four categories: • Presentation—how students receive information, Responding—how students show what they know, • Setting—how the environment is made accessible for instruction and assessment, and • Scheduling—how time demands and schedules may be adjusted.
The Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute defines “reasonable” as “Just, rational, appropriate, ordinary, or usual in the circumstances.” To be reasonable, then, is to be sensitive to context and to aspire to a standard of justice and rationality.
The duty to engage in the interactive accommodation process under title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is triggered when a request for reasonable accommodation is received, or when an employer has a reasonable belief that an employee may need accommodation due to a known disability that is affecting job ...
Fires, natural disasters or civil disturbances. Inability to get records. Death, serious illness or unavoidable absence of the taxpayer or immediate family. System issues that delayed a timely electronic filing or payment.
For example, the job involves occasionally going onto the open roof of a building but the employer transfers this work away from a worker whose disability involves severe vertigo.
A very simple example of a reasonableness check is the validation of a social security number (SSN). You could very easily dump all SSN's into an Excel spreadsheet and sort them to ensure there are no letters or other special characters in the value.
Check if the adjustments you asked for are reasonable
The Equality Act says people and organisations only have to make 'reasonable' changes to help you do and access things easier. For example, it might not be reasonable for a small organisation to make an expensive change that will only help you a little bit.
If your mental health or physically disabling condition will prevent you from working for at least 12 consecutive months, you should apply for benefits available from the Social Security Administration. Do not wait to apply for benefits, the process can take two years from application to favorable decision.
An individual meets the Americans with Disabilities with Act definition act of “disability” that would qualify them for reasonable accommodations if they have “a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities (sometimes referred to in the regulations as an “actual disability”) ...
Some ADA accommodations for anxiety include a flexible schedule, a support animal, or a private workplace. Employees with a mental health condition may also be eligible for a leave of absence under the Family and Medical Leave Act (ADA).
To maintain a claim for failure to accommodate under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), a plaintiff must prove that (1) they qualify as an individual with a disability as defined in the ADA, (2) their employer had notice of their disability, (3) they can perform the essential functions of their job with a ...
The reasonability rule: if an action cannot be considered "reasonable" or "acceptable" by an objective third person, that action should not be performed.
MSPB defines the standard as “The degree of relevant evidence that a reasonable person, considering the record as a whole, would accept as sufficient to find that a contested fact is more likely to be true than untrue.”
Reasonable Consideration means an inducement that is equivalent to the amount that would ordinarily be paid for comparable goods and services in an arms-length transaction.
Accommodation for Near Vision
The accommodation reflex (or near response) is a three-part reflex that brings near objects into focus through lens thickening, pupillary constriction, and inward rotation of the eyes—eye convergence.
Masking involves blocking off content that is not of immediate need or that may be distracting to the student. Students are able to focus their attention on a specific part of a test item by masking.