{"id":11838,"date":"2021-06-21T20:15:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adagreatlakes01.local\/?page_id=11838"},"modified":"2021-06-21T20:15:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T20:15:13","slug":"acronyms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/acronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"acronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"contentTitle\">Acronyms Glossary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>For your convenience, we are providing you with an alphabetical cross-reference list of acronyms used on this site. Where appropriate, we are linking you to the site of the entity referred to by the acronym.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ABA&nbsp;\u2013 Architectural Barriers Act<\/li><li>ADA&nbsp;\u2013 Americans with Disabilties Act<\/li><li>ADAAG&nbsp;\u2013 Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines<\/li><li>APH&nbsp;\u2013 American Printing House for the Blind<\/li><li>CAST&nbsp;\u2013 Center for Applied Special Technology<\/li><li>CATEA&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.catea.org\/\">Center for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access<\/a><\/li><li>DOE&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Education<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.energy.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Energy<\/a><\/li><li>DOJ&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ada.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Justice<\/a><\/li><li>DOL&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Labor<\/a><\/li><li>DOT&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dot.gov\/\">U.S. Department of Transportation<\/a><\/li><li>DSL&nbsp;\u2013 Digital Subscriber Line<\/li><li>EEO&nbsp;\u2013 Equal Employment Opportunity<\/li><li>EEOC&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eeoc.gov\/\">Equal Employment Opportunity Commission<\/a><\/li><li>FAQs&nbsp;\u2013 Frequently Asked Questions<\/li><li>FCC&nbsp;\u2013 Federal Communications Commission<\/li><li>FMLA&nbsp;\u2013 Family Medical Leave Act<\/li><li>HR&nbsp;\u2013 Human Resources<\/li><li>HUD&nbsp;\u2013 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development<\/li><li>IDEA&nbsp;&nbsp; Individuals with Disabilities Education Act<\/li><li>IT&nbsp;\u2013 Information Technology<\/li><li>K-12&nbsp;\u2013 Kindergarten through 12th Grade (US)<\/li><li>LEA&nbsp;\u2013 Local Educational Agency<\/li><li>NIDRR&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.gov\/about\/offices\/list\/osers\/nidrr\/index.html?src=mr\">National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research<\/a><\/li><li>NCAC&nbsp;\u2013 National Center on Accessing the General Curriculum<\/li><li>NIMAC&nbsp;\u2013 National Instructional Materials Access Center (IDEA&nbsp;2004 directs the Secretary of Education to establish and support, through the&nbsp;APH, a center to be known as&nbsp;NIMAC.)<\/li><li>NIMAS&nbsp;\u2013 National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard<\/li><li>RESNA&nbsp;\u2013 Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America<\/li><li>SEA&nbsp;\u2013 State Educational Agency<\/li><li>TDD&nbsp;\u2013 Telecommunications Device for the Deaf<\/li><li>TRS&nbsp;\u2013 Telecommunications Relay Services<\/li><li>TTY&nbsp;\u2013 TeleTYpe writer (telecommunications device for the hearing impaired)<\/li><li>UDL&nbsp;\u2013 Universal Design for Learning<\/li><li>US&nbsp;or&nbsp;U.S.&nbsp;\u2013 United States<\/li><li>V&nbsp;\u2013 Voice (commonly used in conjuction with&nbsp;TTY&nbsp;as&nbsp;V\/TTY)<\/li><li>W3C&nbsp;\u2013&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/w3c.org\/\">World Wide Web Consortium<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acronyms Glossary For your convenience, we are providing you with an alphabetical cross-reference list of acronyms used on this site. Where appropriate, we are linking you to the site of the entity referred to by the acronym. ABA&nbsp;\u2013 Architectural Barriers Act ADA&nbsp;\u2013 Americans with Disabilties Act ADAAG&nbsp;\u2013 Americans with Disabilities Act Accessibility Guidelines APH&nbsp;\u2013 American&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/acronyms\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">acronyms<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11838","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ada-dcc.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}