{"id":4384,"date":"2020-03-06T09:59:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T15:05:58","slug":"digital-accessibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4384","title":{"rendered":"Digital Accessibility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sign.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sign-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"White and blue directional sign with wheelchair ADA logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sign-300x183.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sign-768x469.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sign-1024x626.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sign.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hi guys, today\u2019s blog post focuses on accessibility in a global-sense (well nationwide at the very least) and it highlights an awesome article about the ADA, also known as the Americans with Disabilities Act.&nbsp; The ADA happens to be turning 30 years old this year!&nbsp; Nationwide, regionally and statewide you guys should expect lots of events to mark, celebrate and market this civil rights law\u2019s 30<sup>th<\/sup> birthday.&nbsp; For those that do not know the ADA prevents discrimination in a variety of forms on the basis of disability. Please click on the following link to read all about it!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/478658-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-is-turning\">https:\/\/thehill.com\/changing-america\/well-being\/prevention-cures\/478658-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-is-turning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GHWBush-ADA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GHWBush-ADA-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"President Bush signing ADA law with four onlookers.\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GHWBush-ADA-300x239.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GHWBush-ADA-768x612.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/GHWBush-ADA.jpg 860w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoyed learning more about the ADA and the anniversary of this vital civil rights law!&nbsp; Later this year, we will be posting, advertising and sharing out information about events to mark the 30<sup>th<\/sup> birthday of the ADA here in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading,<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Drummond<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=4384\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys, today\u2019s blog post focuses on accessibility in a global-sense (well nationwide at the very least) and it highlights an awesome article about the ADA, also known as the Americans with Disabilities Act.&nbsp; The ADA happens to be turning 30 years old this year!&nbsp; Nationwide, regionally and statewide you guys should expect lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,36,27,14,11,5,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4387,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}