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Originally Posted by MaggieL
It should be in yours, if you're doing construction.
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I only do it now on a volunteer basis. Construction work is fun when done intermittently - a pain especially in winter. But once the paid professional repeatedly could not get ADA right, then I went looking for facts. I got tired of teaching people how to rip out work and redo it.
Meanwhile, much of what is required for ADA should be standard. I recall a newspaper office where a front door was even awkward for regular traffic. The comments were disparagement about ADA laws rather then management who did not do it right the first time - cut costs.
Yes I was surprised the ramp required an expensive foundation. Some ADA requirements are expensive. However, does it really make sense to put stove controls where one must reach across hot cooking food? Forget ADA. That makes no sense anyway. There is much in ADA that really should be standard - not require special laws.
Notice how details the requirements are as xoxoxBruce posted. Yes, everything in the world is that complex. Even a light switch, so simply that anyone can by one and install, is actually chock full of complexity and a many page document. How do we eliminate such complexity? We make standards. ADA should not be so 'something special'. Much of it should be standard construction practice.
I don't know the text of that UN document. But one reason laws are made - mankind would not advance otherwise. The computer industry does not have reams of regulation because of the industry attitude. Construction had a long history of fearing change.