What if ADAAG has no standards for a particular type of facility -- such as bowling alleys, golf courses, exercise equipment, pool lifts, amusement park rides, and cruise ships? In such cases, the ADAAG standards should be applied to the extent possible. Where appropriate technical standards exist, they should be applied. If there are no applicable scoping requirements (i.e., how many features must be accessible), then a reasonable number, but at least one, must be accessible.
ILLUSTRATION 1: A swimming pool complex must comply fully with ADAAG in the parking facilities, route to the facility door, entrance to the facility, locker rooms, showers, common areas, and route to the pool. However, ADAAG does not contain technical standards for access to the pool itself. Thus, the owner cannot be found in violation of ADAAG for failure to install a lift or other means of access into the pool.
ILLUSTRATION 2: Most bowling alleys are inaccessible because they have a few steps down to the bowling area and a step up to the lanes. ADAAG requirements for ramping steps can be applied to the design of new bowling alleys, resulting in an accessible bowling alley. Unlike in the case of pool lifts above, appropriate technical standards for ramps are applicable. However, ADAAG contains no "scoping" for bowling alleys. In other words, it does not specify how many alleys need to be accessible. As a result, if a reasonable number, but at least one, of the alleys is designed to be accessible, no ADA violation will be found.
ILLUSTRATION 3: Because of the
unique structure of ships, none of
the ADAAG technical or scoping standards are appropriate. Until such
time as the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board
issues specific standards applicable to ships, there is no requirement
that ships be constructed accessibly. (Cruise ships would still be
subject to other title III requirements.)
ILLUSTRATION
4: Although mobile health care screening vans are
“facilities” subject to the requirements of title III, there are no
specific
ADAAG standards for newly constructed or altered vans. The vehicles
are,
however, subject to the other title III requirements including the
obligation
to provide equal opportunity and the duty to remove architectural,
communication,
and transportation barriers to the extent that it is readily achievable
to do
so, and if it is not readily achievable to do so, to provide
alternative
methods of access to the services offered through the mobile vans.