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What´s the American with Disabilities?
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the most comprehensive federal civil-rights statute protecting the rights of people withdisabilities. It affects access to employment; state and local government programs and services; access to places of public accommodation such as businesses, transportation,and non-profit service providers; and telecommunications. .
The scope of the ADA in addressing the barriers to participation by people with disabilities in the mainstreamof society is very broad. The ADA's civil rights protections are parallel to those that have previously been established by the federal government for women and racial,ethnic and religious minorities.
The ADA is solely about 'equal opportunity', from its preamble to its final provision: like other civil rights laws, the ADA prohibitsdiscrimination and mandates that Americans be accorded equality in pursuing jobs, goods, services and other opportunities, but the ADA makes clear that equal treatment is notsynonymous with identical treatment, says Professor Robert Burgdorf Jr., one of the drafters of the original bill that became the ADA.
Letting every employee have an identicalopportunity to use a restroom located up a flight of stairs may be identical treatment but it is hardly equal treatment for a worker who uses a wheelchair.
The ADA is a mandatefor equality. Any person who's discriminated against by an employer because of a real disability, or because the employer regards the person as being disabled, whether theyare or not should be entitled to the law's protection. The focus of the Act was and should be; on eliminating employers' practices that make people unnecessarily different.