Katie is Right on the Ball and I Agree!

Katie, like so many of the ACCESS "Watchdogs in Wheelchairs", have a following.  I am a great believer in the leader trying the ACCESS program and get some "hands-on" experience.  With that "hands-on" experience, the leaders in the wheelchair community will get knowledge of how the ACCESS program works to really get buildings ADA accessible.  The ACCESS program requires a detailed ADA audit of the building and site.  This is done with a licensed ADA architect and a production technician.  ACCESS also requires all the ADA architects to also be International Code Council (ICC) certified. 

The field information is brought to the production office where the production technician inserts the field information into the ADA templates and the written report with color photos are generated.  The detailed ADA on-site audit by professions is absolutely essential in the opinion of ACCESS.  ACCESS has been doing ADA audits for the past 18 years and knows of no other way to get the detailed information of the building elements that are not ADA compliant so that an architectural/engineering firm can produce a set of ADA retrofit permit drawings.

The ACCESS motto is working together we can get buildings ADA compliant one building at a time.

Our goal is to be a part of the team that will be filing 100 ADA non-compliant cases a week in Federal Court by the end of 2011.