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According to the EEOC, the ADA covers employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments, and a covered employer must make a reasonable accommodation for the known disability of a qualified applicant or employee unless it would impose an undue hardship.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The ADA covers employers with 15 or more employees, including state and local governments. ... An employer is required to make a reasonable accommodation to the known disability of a qualified applicant or employee if it would not impose an "undue hardship" on the operation of the employer's business.”
Fact Sheet: Disability Discrimination, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1997, Fact Sheet: Disability Discrimination, coverage and reasonable accommodation paragraphs.
Open the original- What it measures
- Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act is the employment part of the law and is enforced by the EEOC. Speech recognition or dictation software requested by an employee with a disability is a typical request that an employer would assess as a possible reasonable accommodation.
- What it does not show
- Smaller employers may still be covered by state or local disability laws, and federal employees are covered by the Rehabilitation Act instead. This is a summary of the EEOC's description, not legal advice.
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