Products/Services for People With Disabilities

  • Guardrails and Railings-Image
    Guardrails and Railings - (585 companies)
    ...the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Types of Guardrails and Railings. Guardrails are defined as " a system of building components located near the open sides of elevated waking surfaces for the purpose of minimizing the possibly... Search by Specification | Learn More
  • No Image Available
    Elevators, Escalators, and Moving Walkways - (129 companies)
    Elevators, escalators and moving walkways are used to raise or move people or goods from one location to another within a building. Elevators, escalators, and moving walkways are used to raise or move people or goods from one location to another... Learn More
  • Door Operators-Image
    Door Operators - (171 companies)
    ...with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Overhead door operators and door actuators can lift and lock. Overhead door operators lift a door to allow access. They are used on commercial garages, firehouses, loading docks, and warehouses. Door actuators... Learn More
  • Platforms and Walkways-Image
    Platforms and Walkways - (408 companies)
    ...of Justice and the Department of Labor have established minimum safety guidelines under both the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Act and the Americans with Disabilities (ADA) Act. Platforms and walkways that adhere to these standards... Search by Specification | Learn More
  • No Image Available
    Access Control Systems - (1075 companies)
    Access Control Systems Information. Access control systems are used to identify people before granting access to secure facilities. These include card and pod readers as well as biometric equipment to identify fingerprints, thumb prints, palm prints... Learn More
  • Industrial Safety Gates - (117 companies)
    Industrial safety gates are designed to restrict the movement of people and objects through controlled spaces. They move or pivot to an alternative position to provide industrial machine safeguarding. Most industrial safety gates use one-way flow... Search by Specification | Learn More
  • Seating - (191 companies)
    Seating Information. Seating includes furniture upon which people sit and materials that are used to cover or upholster seats. There are many different types of products. Choices include educational and auditorium seating; pedestal seating; bleacher... Learn More
  • Grounding Straps - (74 companies)
    Grounding straps are anti-static devices that are used to protect people and electronic equipment from electrostatic discharges (ESD) by routing the electric current to a safe ground. They are designed to protect personnel who come in contact... Search by Specification | Learn More
  • Distress Radiobeacons - (17 companies)
    Distress radiobeacons, also known as emergency beacons, PLB, ELT, or EPIRB, are devices which transmit the location of boats, aircraft, and people in distress. The signal is forwarded via a dedicated satellite to a control center which initiates... Learn More
  • Dust and Debris Control Products - (87 companies)
    Dust control products and debris control products protect equipment, valuable inventories and people from unacceptable or dangerous contamination. Dust control products and debris control products protect equipment, inventories and personnel from... Learn More
More >>

Product News for People With Disabilities

More >>

Conduct Research

Web Accessibility for People with Disabilities. This is a great guide that shows you how and why to make your Web site accessible to people with disabilities. Books24x7 EngineeringProTM from Books24x7® Having access to accurate information on demand is critical...

Kevin Ryan A rehabilitation engineer talks about helping people with disabilities, and why high-school kids are smarter than college students. B.S., Industrial Engineering, University of Tennessee; 22 years in engineering. by Phillip M. Margolin, everything by James Patterson Scuba diving, picture...

Kevin Ryan A rehabilitation engineer talks about helping people with disabilities, and why high-school kids are smarter than college students. What projects do you work on for the Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)? I've been a judge and an advisor for National Engineering Design Challenge...

Advances in wireless technology promise to improve quality of life for millions of people with disabilities. Thin-film electrodes, with up to 8 more channels than present prostheses, biocompatible silicon-quartz-parylene structure, and eight-lead, articulated insertion tools will aid deep placement...

...needs. Most users with disabilities will need utility programs with more advanced functionality for daily use." But for occasional use by people with disabilities, and for those simply looking for ways to reduce input errors and boost speed, the enhancements are a definite plus. The Accessibility...

Hearing aids are just that. They allow a person to better hear sounds and. speech. Strange as it may seem to those that hear perfectly, people with. hearing disabilities don't like to advertise their malady. Many of the hearing aids. previously have been worn external to the ear acting...

- Railway Article.doc. Sonalert Products. An Alarming Situation on Passenger Railcars. By Dan O'Brien of Mallory Sonalert Products, Inc. the people not getting off the railcar. Because the. audible alarm is being used as a safety warning (i.e. stay away from the opening/closing doors), system...

...typically will generate an audible sound to alert people that it is safe to cross. While. the audible sound can be a simple tone or a more complex voice message, distinct birdcalls are. commonly used. Audible devices are most frequently specified for intersections because they are. simple to install, use...

...physician and the patient in. a difficult and suspicious realm due to the Tort System of litigation where money damages are requested as a. result of injury. In reality, many people who suffer from daily pain and discomfort and loss of function can be. easily evaluated with the use of infrared cameras...

When stressing the simplicity and naturalness of a task, people sometimes spout the comparison: "It's as easy as breathing." But for some individuals, breathing comfortably is a luxury and perhaps even a rarity. Patients with such disabilities as paralysis, muscular dystrophy, and amyotrophic...

Engineering Web Search: People With Disabilities

Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer...
Working Together: People with Disabilities and Computer Technology People with disabilities meet barriers of all types.
See University of Washington Information

ADA Home Page - ada.gov - Information and Technical Assistance...
Federal Employment of People with Disabilities

WAI Resources
WAI: Strategies, guidelines, resources to make the Web accessible to people with disabilities

User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
assistive technologies). Furthermore, all users, not just users with disabilities, should find conforming user agents to be more usable.

Designing More Usable Web Sites
How People with Disabilities Use the Web - This document provides an introduction to use of the Web by people with disabilities.

Application Software Design Guidelines:
Application Software Design Guidelines: Increasing the Accessibility of Application Software to People with Disabilities and Older Users

Home Environment Models for Comfortable and Independent Living...
> Research Results > Home Environment Models for Comfortable and Independent Living of People with Disabilities
See AIST Information

AIST:AIST Today 2011-1 No.39
and independent living of people with disabilities - Toward a comfortable home environment designed by people with disabilities themselves -
See AIST Information

Home | The University of Texas at Austin
Author Jan Reid's comprehensive book, "Let the People In," published by The University of Texas Press, tells a personal story about the former Texas
See University of Texas at Austin (The) Information

University of California, Berkeley
Access guide for people with disabilities
See University of California at Berkeley Information

More >>


Product Announcements
Federal Signal Corporation/Industrial Systems
Federal Signal Corporation/Industrial Systems
Federal Signal Corporation/Industrial Systems
Federal Signal Corporation/Industrial Systems