Lack of Evacuation Plan Spurs Suit

Lack of Evacuation Plan Spurs Suit

Katie Savage filed a lawsuit against her local mall because of its lack of an evacuation plan for people with disabilities. On Sept. 3, 2002, while the nation was on alert for the possibility of another September terrorist attack, the fire alarm sounded at the City...
Tour Shines Spotlight on Arena’s Accessibility

Tour Shines Spotlight on Arena’s Accessibility

Group offers praise for features at SBC Center. Details such as low counters, convenient places to slide wheelchairs into and wide spaces in bathrooms and elevators add up to make the SBC Center a nice place to visit, say people who toured the arena Friday as part of...
Management’s Responsibility

Management’s Responsibility

Let’s say you’re an owner or manager of a building — an office complex, museum or any other facility to which the public has access — and you want to devise an evacuation plan for people with disabilities. There are five major points you need...
Theater Group Improves Access for Disabled

Theater Group Improves Access for Disabled

A group of companies that owns about half of the theaters on Broadway said yesterday that it had revamped 16 properties, all of them historical landmarks, to make them more accessible to theatergoers with disabilities. The Shubert Organization, whose theaters include...