Here are the three titles in the Americans with Disabilities Act:
Title I | Title II | Title III
TITLE II:
STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT SERVICES
ADA Consulting Associates provides services to municipal, county, and state governments. Our services include surveying of government provided programs and services, inspecting buildings and facilities to identify architectural and communications barriers that are impacting on the accessibility of specific programs and services, as well as developing transition plans for the removal of identified architectural barriers when such barrier removal is required.
ADA Consulting Associates also provides training on the ADA and sensitivity concerning people with disabilities to the administrative staff of local governments and to elected officials. We provide training in plans reviews and building inspection to government building departments, zoning departments, engineering departments, and growth management departments. This training is to assist these units of government in applying the requirements of Title III of the ADA to new construction and alterations of existing facilities.
Title II of the ADA requires that state and local governments provide all programs and services that are offered to the public in a manner that makes the programs and services accessible to all people with disabilities. Local governments are not required to remove all architectural barriers at all facilities of the government. Only those architectural barriers that provent equal access to programs and services are required to be removed.
In many cases programs and services can be made accessible through a redesign of the program or service. The relocation of a program from an inaccessible facility to an accessible facility is an example of a modification of a program. Providing a fully accessible meeting room in an administration facility, to be used by all administrative staff when meeting with individuals with disabilities is also an example of modifying a program or service. In order for the providing of such a meeting room to successfully modify the service of administrative staff meeting with members of the public a policy would have to be established by the government administrator that all administrative staff are required to meet with individuals with disabilities in the accessible meeting room rather than the office of the employee.