ADA sign checklist

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Is it covered?

• Sign names a permanent room or space, or an exit stair / passageway / discharge door → tactile and visual (216.2, 216.4.1)
• Sign gives directions or information → visual only (216.3)
• Directory, menu, seat/row number, occupant name, address, logo, or up 7 days or less → exempt (216.1)

Raised characters

• Uppercase, sans serif, not italic, oblique, script or decorative (703.2.2, 703.2.3)
• Uppercase I is 5/8 in to 2 in tall (1/2 in min if separate visual characters) (703.2.5)
• Raised 1/32 in min above the background (703.2.1)
• O is 55%–110% as wide as the I is tall (703.2.4)
• I stroke 15% max of its height (703.2.6)
• Letter gaps 1/8 in min, 4 × stroke max; 3/8 in from raised borders (703.2.7)
• Line spacing 135%–170% of height, baseline to baseline (703.2.8)

Braille

• Grade 2 (contracted), translated and checked (703.3)
• Domed or rounded dots within Table 703.3.1 sizes (703.3.1)
• Below the text (below the whole block if multi-line) (703.3.2)
• 3/8 in from raised characters and from raised borders (703.3.2)
• Capitals only for sentence starts, names, single letters, initials, acronyms (703.3.1)

Visual characters

• Non-glare finish; light on dark or dark on light (703.5.1)
• Conventional font; O 55%–110% of I (703.5.3, 703.5.4)
• Height meets Table 703.5.5 for mounting height and viewing distance (703.5.5)
• Baseline 40 in min above the floor (703.5.6)
• Stroke 10%–30%, spacing 10%–35%, line spacing 135%–170% (703.5.7–703.5.9)

Pictograms and symbols

• Room pictogram field 6 in min high, nothing tactile inside it (703.6.1)
• Raised text descriptor and braille directly below the field (703.6.3)
• ISA used where required (parking; entrances, restrooms, elevators, check-outs where not all are accessible) (216.5–216.11)
• Symbols and pictograms non-glare and contrasting (703.6.2, 703.7.1)

Installation

• Braille baseline 48 in min, top raised baseline 60 in max, from the finish floor (703.4.1)
• Latch side wall; inactive leaf; right of right-hand door; or nearest wall (703.4.2)
• On a door only on the push side, with a closer and no hold-open (703.4.2)
• 18 × 18 in clear floor space centered on the characters, beyond the 45° door swing (703.4.2)
• Wall-mounted projection 4 in max between 27 and 80 in; 80 in headroom under overhead signs (307.2, 307.4)
• Parking signs 60 in min to the bottom of the lowest panel (502.6)