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Breaking down barriers in access to businesses, goods, services, employment and equal opportunity.  Breaking down these barriers is what David Otto & Affiliates is all about. 

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the most comprehensive federal civil-rights statute protecting the rights of people with disabilities.  Through this law, businesses and government agencies are required to provide fair and equal  access to employment; state and local government programs and services; access to places of public accommodation such as businesses, transportation, and non-profit service providers; and telecommunications.

The ADA' s scope is very broad. It was designed to remove barriers to participation by people with disabilities in the mainstream of society.  The ADA's civil rights protections are come from those laws and constitutional amendments which have previously been established by the federal government to ensure equal rights for people who had suffered discrimination. Such groups include women and racial, ethnic and religious minorities.

"The ADA is about 'equal opportunity'. Like other civil rights laws, the ADA prohibits discrimination and requires that Americans be accorded equality in pursuing jobs, goods, services and other opportunities. Equal and identical are not the same things.

It may be that every employee or customer has an identical opportunity to use a restroom located up a flight of stairs. That may be "identical" treatment but it is far from equal treatment for that worker or customer who uses a wheelchair for mobility.

The ADA requires equality. Any person who suffers discriminated by an employer because of a real disability -- or because the employer regards the person as being disabled, whether they are or not is entitled to the law's protection. The focus of the Act is on eliminating practices that make people unnecessarily different.