The specifications in this standard make sites, facilities, buildings, and elements accessible to and useable by people with such physical disabilities as the inability to walk, difficulty walking, reliance on walking aids, blindness and visual impairment, deafness and hearing impairment, reaching and manipulation disabilities, lack of stamina, difficulty interpreting and reacting to senory information, and extemes of physical size. The intent is to allow a person with a physical disability
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