Teaching · Related Services

Measure the route a student actually takes.

Enter what the tape measure and door gauge say. The checklist compares each number with the 2010 ADA Standards and tells you by how much each one misses.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Related Services toolkit, $99 for 96 items.

The access walk-through

One walk-through per building or route and date. The example is made up.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
Each measurement marked pass or fix with the amount, the accessible parking required for the lot, and the ramp length a compliant slope needs.
Who it is for
Administrators, facilities staff, physical therapists and 504 or ADA coordinators checking a route for a student or a building.
Format
Browser checklist used on site with a tape measure and a door pressure gauge. Saved walk-throughs; printed with the summary or as a blank form; CSV; export and import a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about an order, access or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.
measure the slope, the door and the reach
Drawn for this page. Most barriers on a school route come down to a few inches or a few pounds, and a tape measure finds them.

How to use it

  1. Start a walk-through with a building code and the date.
  2. Count the parking spaces.
  3. Measure the narrowest points, doors, thresholds and door force on the route.
  4. Measure any ramp run and the controls a student must reach.
  5. Print the fixes for facilities and set a date to check again.

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Where the numbers come from

The numbers

From the 2010 ADA Standards: accessible routes at least 36 inches wide; doors with at least 32 inches clear; thresholds up to 1/2 inch; interior doors that open with 5 pounds of force or less; ramps no steeper than 1:12 with no more than 30 inches of rise per run and handrails when the rise is over 6 inches; controls between 15 and 48 inches above the floor.

Older buildings

Schools built before the Standards are not all required to meet every number, but students with disabilities must be able to reach programs and activities. A barrier on a student’s route is worth fixing either way.

What this is not

A formal ADA survey or a legal finding.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Justice, 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design: 208.2 (parking spaces), 403.5.1 (route width), 404.2.3 (door clear width), 404.2.5 (thresholds), 404.2.9 (door opening force).
  2. 2010 ADA Standards, 405.2 (ramp slope), 405.6 (rise), 405.8 (handrails), 505 (handrails) and 308 (reach ranges).
  3. Title II of the ADA, 28 CFR 35.150 (program access in existing facilities) and Section 504, 34 CFR 104.22.
  4. U.S. Access Board, Guide to the ADA Accessibility Standards (accessible routes, doors and ramps).

The example building is made up. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.