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Making Minneapolis more accessible: City hires community specialist for people with disabilities Guthrie Byard is taking on a new role to break barriers for people with disabilities in Minneapolis.Welcome to the official YouTube channel of KARE 11 News. ...

How return-to-office mandates could affect workers with disabilities Transportation and workplace accessibility are among the concerns for people with disabilities returning to the office.

Ohio report finds people of color with disabilities face more discrimination and inequity The Center for Community Solutions researched the intersection of race and disability in Ohio for its latest report.

Smart Ass Cripple: The Supreme Court Could Make It More Difficult to Enforce the ADA Deborah Laufer's lawsuit against Acheson Hotels for not complying with the ADA went all the way to the Supreme Court. Although Laufer has dropped the case, the result may make noncompliance even more acceptable.

What Is Reasonable? Handling Employee Requests For An Extended Leave Of Absence - Employee Benefits & Compensation - United States Assessing extended leave requests can be one of the most difficult and challenging issues employers face. While many employers are sympathetic to an employee's challenging health issues...

Beyond Accommodations: Supporting Workplace Neurodiversity | JD Supra The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) has been an extraordinarily successful law. Certainly, individuals working in human resources know that...

Supreme Court to hear case on ADA ‘tester’ of hotels - HOTELSMag.com The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case to decide whether a self-appointed “tester” of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) can sue hotels over an alleged breach of the civil rights law. This will be the first time the Supreme Court hears an ADA Title III case in over 18 years, pot...

Walmart is slapped with 2 lawsuits in a week accusing the retailer of unfairly firing workers with chronic illnesses The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is accusing Walmart of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act for treatment of two workers.

ADA suit tests limits of job accommodation duty A recent federal appeals court ruling shows how far employers may have to go to provide accommodation to employees with disabilities.

Disturbing data on how doctors treat people with disabilities - The Boston Globe Physicians are not the only ones. Many in health care and related fields lack the training and resources to ensure that what they do reflects best practices for people with disabilities.

Brown website accused of violating Americans with Disabilities Act - The Brown Daily Herald A class action complaint filed Sept. 23 claims that the University’s websites, including the athletics website and the campus shop website, violate the Americans with Disabilities Act by not being fully compatible with computer screen-reading programs. 

Short-Term Impairments May Be Covered by the ADA if Sufficiently Severe The definition of “disability” in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does not require a showing of long-term effects for an impairment to be considered substantially limiting, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.