History of the Access Board

Title	History of the Access Board
Publication Type	Web Article
Year of Publication	Submitted
Authors	Board, United S. A.
Access Year	2010
Access Date	13 July 2010
Description	Saved webpage
Publisher	U.nited States Access Board
Accession Number	July, 2010
Keywords	legislation, regulation, United States
Abstract	This webpage charts the history of the United States Access Board, its work in creating stands for modfication of builiding for greater accecibility of disabled people in private and public buildings including public toilets and other structures such as ATM's, the passage of the National Commission on Architectural Barriers to Rehabilitation of the Handicapped, The Architectural Barriers Act , the board adopting the Minimum Guidelines for Accessible Design and the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Giving the board greater scope for increating and enforcing greater standards for construction. in new buidlings

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