THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT AT 30 -- PART 4

VOICES OF VICTORY, CELEBRATION OF CIVIL RIGHTS

AND REMAINING CHALLENGES 

“Before the ADA, playgrounds were not accessible for adults or children with disabilities.  

In the 1990s, we wrote regulations and now you see more and more poured in place rubber surfaces and the equipment is more accessible than it was before.

You have beach access routes and beach wheelchairs – that was almost unheard of before.

Stadiums and arenas: before the ADA, you were lucky to have a stadium where you could find a wheelchair accessible seat at all.

Now, we address sightline over standing spectators, and accessible seating dispersed throughout the facility – because of the ADA,” Capozzi said.