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Accommodation ADA Technical Requirements Options for Employers

What is accommodation?

The EEOC technical manual states "an employer must provide a reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of a qualified applicant or employee with a disability unless it can show that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the business."

The manual goes further to define accommodation as a "change in the work environment or in the way things are usually done that results in equal employment opportunity for an individual with a disability..." To support upon its definition of reasonable accommodation, the manual includes the following examples:

Making existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to, and usable by, an individual with a disability

• Job restructuring
• Modifying work schedules
• Acquiring or modifying equipment or device