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Recovery Month 2023, Massachusetts Organization for Addiction Recovery logos in purple text.

MOAR and Friends 33rd Recovery Month Celebration Day

September 26, 9:30 am - 4:00 pm EDT
In-person event: 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA
MOAR is celebrating with a rally in the Boston Common, a march, and celebrations at Faneuil Hall.
For more information

Person viewing an interactive map on a tablet.

Maps for All: Building Accessible Maps

September 26, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

Learn the concept, development, tools, and benefits of creating and using accessible maps with accessibility features.

Person with a cane walking along a sidewalk.

U.S. Access Board Issues Final Rule on Public Right-of-Way Accessibility Guidelines

Guidelines to inform federal, state, and local government agencies on how to make their pedestrian facilities, like sidewalks, accessible to people with disabilities.
More on Public Rights-of-Way

Disability data in Massachusetts. Bar chart showing disability types and populations of each.

Research Reports

Read our data on disability and the challenges to implementing the ADA in New England.

Read our research reports.

President George H. W. Bush signing the ADA into law

Addiction, Recovery and the ADA

People with addiction to alcohol and in recovery from opioids and other drugs are people with disabilities too!

Learn about your rights!

Submit an ADA Question

All questions are confidential

Call:1-800-949-4232 (voice/TTY)

Or, fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.

Architecture & Design

staff only sign

Does the staff toilet room in a workplace have to be accessible?

Businesses & Non-Profits

A disability coordinator at a museum has received requests to provide wheelchairs and wheelchair pushers. The museum is concerned about liability issues. What does ADA require?

Individuals & Advocates

I have cancer. Is this a disability under the ADA?

State & Local Governments

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Most of the towns playgrounds were built before the ADA was amended and are not accessible. Aren’t existing playgrounds grandfathered?

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I am a parent of a son with a disability. I have used my 12 weeks of leave under FMLA. I need additional leave to care for him. Can the ADA help me?

Submit an ADA Question

All questions are confidential

Call:1-800-949-4232 (voice/TTY)

Or, fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.

Architecture & Design

staff only sign

Does the staff toilet room in a workplace have to be accessible?

Businesses & Non-Profits

A disability coordinator at a museum has received requests to provide wheelchairs and wheelchair pushers. The museum is concerned about liability issues. What does ADA require?

Individuals & Advocates

I have an emotional support animal. Where do I register it as a service animal?

State & Local Governments

We have a town employee who uses hearing aids and has difficulty hearing people through face masks because she lip reads as well. We are considering getting her colleagues see through face masks, or offering her our portable assistive listening device. Are we obligated to require all employee who interact with her to use see through face masks?

We have an employee who uses hearing aids and has difficulty hearing people through face masks because she lipreads as well. We are considering getting her work colleagues see through face masks, or offering her our portable assistive listening device or, I suppose they could call her and use the phone. Are we obligated to require all employee who interact with her to use see through face masks?

Submit an ADA Question

All questions are confidential

Call:1-800-949-4232 (voice/TTY)

Or, fill out the form and a staff member will contact you.

Architecture & Design

staff only sign

Does the staff toilet room in a workplace have to be accessible?

Businesses & Non-Profits

I own a business that our customers can connect to via our website. Does the website have to be accessible? A third party vendor manages some of the services offered on our website. Are we responsible for making sure those services are accessible?

Individuals & Advocates

I have cancer. Is this a disability under the ADA?

State & Local Governments

Our town hall is open and requires everyone to wear a face mask. We recently had a person who said he has a disability and therefore can’t wear a mask. I am concerned about the safety of our staff and other people from the public. What should we do?

symbol of transgender

Are people who consider themselves transgender covered by the ADA?