Section 504 Rule Letter to ACL Grantees

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released a letter to ACL grantees on the final rule implementing Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The funding the rule contributes to advances the expansion of community living for disabled people and creates new compliance requirements for recipients of federal funding from HHS. The letter highlights the new fact sheet that helps ACL grantees understand the Section 504 rule and compliance obligations including web, mobile, and kiosk accessibility, reasonable modifications and effective communication requirements, and requirements for implementing the new rule.