Solutions:
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Detectable Warning Surfaces
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Flexible Schedule
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Industrial Mirrors
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Job Restructuring
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Reassignment
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Service Animal
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Tactile Graphics & Maps
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Talking Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Maps
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Task Lighting
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Telework, Work from Home, Working Remotely
Detectable Warning Surfaces
Tactile warning surfaces that can alert visually impaired pedestrians.
Flexible Schedule
Employees who experience limitations in concentration may need a flexible schedule in order to work optimally during hours of increased attentiveness. Flexible schedules can also be used to have a period of mental rest in order to refocus and reorient into his/her work. Examples of a flexible schedule would be adjusting starting and ending times of the workday, combining regularly scheduled breaks to create one extended break or dividing large breaks into smaller segments, and allowing work to be completed during hours when the employee is most mentally alert.
Industrial Mirrors
Mirrors sized and standardized for industrial settings.
Vendors and Products
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.
Reassignment
Employees who are having difficulties meeting the expectations for a given position may benefit from receiving different work from their employer. There may be personal conflicts with an individual and their disabilities that prevents them performing certain jobs or tasks but that may not affect their performance in other tasks that they may be equally qualified for.
Service Animal
Vendors and Products
Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc.
Pet Partners
U.S. Department of Justice Disability Rights Section
Tactile Graphics & Maps
Tactile graphics can be developed by using special thermal paper to enhance images, that when heated, will produce a tactile image, Braille embossing technology, or create your own! These products can produce raised-line maps, graphs, diagrams, and charts.
Vendors and Products
American Printing House for the Blind, Inc.
See3D
Talking Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Maps
A Global Positioning System (GPS) is used as a navigation aid in cars, airplanes, and ships. GPS receivers are increasingly being integrated with cell phones, PDA's, vehicle tracking systems, etc. Hand-held GPS receivers may be used by mountain climbers, hikers, and employees working outdoors.
Task Lighting
Telework, Work from Home, Working Remotely
Telework, within certain fields, can be an excellent alternative for employees who have conditions that make it difficult for them to leave their home or reliably travel to a place of work. Employers should consider if a job can be made compatible with telework for their employees and communicate their expectations and requirement for the job to be performed out of home. Allowing work from home during worksite or office construction; extremely hot, cold, or inclement weather; or parking renovations could be a reasonable accommodation.