Tips on Commenting

• Individualize your comment – rather than copying the draft comments on this website exactly.

• Give examples of the issues in the Department of Justice (DOJ) proposed regulation changes, from your own experience or that of others you know, or know about. This is true for every subject in the proposal. It is particularly true in the area of:

- Inaccessible court facilities including witness boxes,

- Direct access to stages,

- Assistive Listening Systems,

- All the rest of the eight specific elements from the 2004 ADAAG that DOJ is focusing on, including:

• side reach,
  
• single user toilet rooms with in-swinging doors,
  
• elevators,
  
• stairs, and
  
• golf course elements.

• If you are short on time, just click on one or two of the topics that interest you the most. Write a brief letter based on some points in the summary at the top of that topic's web page.

• Ask DOJ for an extension of the comment period in your comments!

• State your name, and organization if you represent one, at the beginning. Explain briefly your connection to the ADA or who you are.

• Start with what you want DOJ (or “the Department,” as DOJ calls itself in the proposed regulations) to do or not to do. What language should they change, or retain?

- Then state why.

- Then give examples.

• It is just as important to tell DOJ what you like about the proposal, as what you don’t like. Industry can be expected to attack all the DOJ proposals that would make the regulation stronger.

• If you want to copy a section from the draft comments on this website, it will work better to use the text/Word version, than the html.