Disability Rights
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar state laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of disability in employment, public accommodations, commercial facilities, transportation, and telecommunications. Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian has been at the forefront of ensuring compliance with the ADA and ensuring access for persons with disabilities by seeking to enforce these guaranteed rights.
We have negotiated landmark agreements for persons with visual impairments that provide alternative formats (including Braille, large print and audio) for printed materials, accessible commercial websites, and the installation of "talking ATMs" at tens of thousands of banking locations across the country. The firm has also negotiated settlements with major national retail chains requiring the installation of tactile point of sale machines that allow persons with visual impairments to privately enter their personal identification numbers at checkstands. We have also negotiated the installation of accessible pedestrian signals in San Francisco. In other significant disability access cases, the firm brought successfully resolved claims which resulted in increased access to merchandise at Macy's stores in California for persons with mobility disabilities. We have also negotiated settlements that resulted in, and increased access to healthcare services for persons with mobility, visual, hearing and speech impairments who visit UCSF and the Sutter Health chain of hospitals and clinics.
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