Accessibility News & Review

This post is part of a series of articles on the new ADAAG-R guidelines.  I will be exploring some of the more notable changes from the current version of the ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings & Facilities (ADAAG).  You can find a complete copy of the new ADA/ABA Accessibility Guidelines (ADAAG-R) on the Access Board’s website.

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Urinals

Perhaps the most welcome change is the requirement that toilet rooms with only one urinal no longer require that the urinal be accessible.  Here’s how the Guidelines read:

213.3.3 Urinals.  Where more than one urinal is provided, at least one shall comply with 605.

Of course, where an accessible urinal is required (or if one elects to make a urinal accessible), it must comply with all of the requirements for accessible urinals:

1. Be on an accessible route;
2. Have adequate clear floor space for forward approach (remember that in Texas, the clear floor space will likely be require to be centered upon the fixture;
3. Must be stall-type (floor mounted) or wall-hung (if wall hung, the urinal rim must not be higher than 17 inches above the finished floor);
4. Have a tapered, elongated rim (now defined as being at least 13.5 inches from the wet wall);
5. Have operable automatic or hand-operated controls (if hand operated, controls must have adequate clear floor space and be within accessible reach ranges. Generally this will be max 48 inches AFF unless the depth of the urinal is more than 20″, in which case it must be max 44 inches AFF)

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