Solutions:
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Disability Awareness/Etiquette Training
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Head-mounted Magnifiers
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High Visibility Floor Tape and Paint
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Industrial Mirrors
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Job Restructuring
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Low Vision Enhancement Products
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Stair Tread/Textured Tape
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Vein Finders
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Worksite Redesign / Modified Workspace
Disability Awareness/Etiquette Training
Disability awareness/etiquette trainings are designed to enhance employees’ awareness on the different ways that individuals with disabilities communicate, move about, tolerate changes and interactions, and view the world around them. This can help increase employees’ sense of confidence and tolerance when interacting with their coworkers who have disabilities. For more information on disability etiquette, please see JAN's A to Z: Disability Etiquette.
Vendors and Products
Campaign for Disability Employment
Institute on Employment and Disability
Life Quest Training & Consulting, LLC
Mental Health Channel, LLC
National Organization on Disability
Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Virginia Commonwealth University WorkSupport
Virginia Department for the Blind and Vision Impaired
VisAbility
Head-mounted Magnifiers
Glasses, visors and other devices that allow magnification for reading on the go or while at home.
Vendors and Products
- ESD MagEyes DELUXE
- ESD MagEyes Double HI #5 & #7
- ESD MagEyes Double Lo #2 & #4
- ESD MagEyes Single HI #7
- ESD MagEyes Single Lo #2
- ESD MagEyes Single Lo #4
- HatEyes#2
- HatEyes#4
- HatEyes#5
- HatEyes#7
- MagEyes Double HI
- MagEyes Double Lo
- MagEyes360 Double HI Full Circle Headband
- MagEyesPLUS Double HI
- MagEyesPLUS Double Lo
High Visibility Floor Tape and Paint
Color can provide important safety cues such as serving as an indicator of change in surface or level, a warning for potential hazards such as open doors or cabinets, and serve as a way to color-code files, documents and other paperwork. These high contrast/ high visibility products can be useful to help with a variety of tasks for someone with low vision.
Vendors and Products
- 2 in. x 54 ft. Adhesive Marking Tape
- 1-7/8 in. x 100 ft. x 0.005 in. Red Seam Guard Underlayment Tape Roll
- 15 oz. High Visibility Yellow 2X Distance Inverted Marking Spray Paint (6-Pack)
- 2 in. x 50 yds. Fluorescent Pink Gaffer Industrial Vinyl Cloth Tape
- 2 in. x 50 yds. Fluorescent Yellow Gaffer Industrial Vinyl Cloth Tape (3-Pack)
Industrial Mirrors
Mirrors sized and standardized for industrial settings.
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Job Restructuring
Job restructuring is a form of reasonable accommodation which enables many qualified individuals with disabilities to perform jobs effectively. Job restructuring as a reasonable accommodation may involve reallocating or redistributing the marginal functions of a job. However, an employer is not required to reallocate essential functions of a job as a reasonable accommodation. Essential functions, by definition, are those that a qualified individual must perform, with or without an accommodation.
An employer may exchange marginal functions of a job that cannot be performed by a person with a disability for marginal job functions performed by one or more other employees.
Although an employer is not required to reallocate essential job functions, it may be a reasonable accommodation to modify the essential functions of a job by changing when or how they are done.
Low Vision Enhancement Products
Vision Enhancement products are portable low vision aids that can be worn with glasses or head-mounted for persons with low vision.These devices may be used for a variety of distance and midrange visual activities such as seeing faces, TV, the blackboard in school, computer screens, packages on shelves, dialing the telephone, and signs while traveling etc. These products will not restore vision to normal.
Vendors and Products
- 8x X-Vision Binocular
- Arena D 8 x 32 B
- Around the Neck Stand Magnifiers
- Aspheric Hand-held Magnifier
- Bar Stand Magnifiers
- easyPOCKET
- Frame for Keplerian Monocular Telescopes
- Hand-held Magnifier / Stand Magnifier Combination
- Hand-held Magnifier with stand
- Makrolux 2.2x
- Makrolux 3.6x (with video demonstration)
- MakroPLUS 1.8x
- MaxDetail - Galiliean Telescope
- MaxDetail Clip
- MaxTV
- MaxTV Clip
- MenasZoom
- Monocular w/stand
- SmartLux Digital Portable Video Magnifier
- Trophy S Zoom Observation Instrument
- Variety of telescopic devices
- VarioMAXI Magnifying Lamp
Stair Tread/Textured Tape
Non-slip surfaces that can be attached to stairs to prevent slips and falls in cold weather.
Vendors and Products
Vein Finders
For individuals who are having difficulty locating veins, one strategy is to use equipment to make the veins easier to see. Vein finders are handheld devices that use light to help a healthcare provider visualize a patient’s vein structure. Some can be used with hands-free stands or clamps.
Vendors and Products
Worksite Redesign / Modified Workspace
Redesigning a worksite as an accommodation can include moving a workstation closer to a break room, restroom, office equipment, or employee parking lot; duplicating work materials in a workspace; teleconferencing into meetings; having others report to the employee physically; or communicating in an alternative way (instant messaging, pager, texting, or telephone).
Modifying a workspace for an employee who experiences limitations in concentration can help limit or even eliminate both auditory and visual distractions. These modifications can include relocating employees to private area away from high traffic areas, reducing clutter in the employee’s work environment, redesigning an employee’s workspace to minimize visual distractions, and providing higher cubicle walls and/or cubicle doors.