- Author
- Turner, G.
- Title
- Analysis of Sections 4.2 Through 4.14 of the GSA Proposed Uniform Federal Accessibility Standard.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- General Services Administration, Washington, DC
- Report
- NBSIR 82-2567, August 1982,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- buildings; handicapped persons; availability; design criteria; building codes; standards; performance evaluation; accident prevention; human factors engineering
- Identifiers
- federal standards; computer applications
- Abstract
- Recently, the General Services Administration (GSA) developed a draft uniform accessibility standard (the focus of this report) intended to be promulgated in conjunction with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Defense, and the United States Postal Service. Under contract to the General Services Administration, the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), Center for Building Technology assisted in the review of part 4, sections 4.2 through and including 4.14 of the draft standard in order to determine the extent to which previously identified problems of accessibility (NBS database) were addressed by the provisions of the standard. The analysis was carried out by reviewing and classifying the provisions of the draft standard; searching the NBS data base for information relevant to the classes of provisions in the draft standard; and comparing the provisions with the NBS database.