Fact · Accessibility and health
The EEOC's reasonable accommodation guidance lists acquiring or modifying equipment among the possible reasonable accommodations, alongside job restructuring, modified schedules, providing readers or interpreters and reassignment.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“These include: making existing facilities accessible; job restructuring; part-time or modified work schedules; acquiring or modifying equipment; changing tests, training materials, or policies; providing qualified readers or interpreters; and reassignment to a vacant position.”
Enforcement Guidance on Reasonable Accommodation and Undue Hardship under the ADA, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2002, General Principles, Reasonable Accommodation.
Open the original- What it measures
- Assistive software such as speech recognition falls under equipment in everyday accommodation practice; the Job Accommodation Network lists speech recognition software as an accommodation solution.
- What it does not show
- The list is examples, not an exhaustive or mandatory menu: what is reasonable depends on the person, the job and whether undue hardship applies. The guidance does not name dictation software specifically.