Isn the government constantly changing the ADA rules on us?
Believe it or not, ADA sign guidelines have not changed once since 1991 when they were first written! However, various states may have published their state building codes in the meantime, and there might be some more stringent rules in your state. ANSI (American National Standards Institute), a private, non-profit standards setting organization, did come out with new standards, including a completely rewritten sign section, in 1998, and then simplified it without actually changing the standards, in 2003. The federal government, which is in charge of the ADA, has used these simplified standards in its proposed rewrite of the ADA sign guidelines. After many years of bureaucratic delays, the new “Design Standards,” as they are now being called, have been adopted by some federal agencies, such as the Department of Transportation. However, the Department of Justice has yet to adopt the new standards, so Title 3, for privately owned facilities, and many Title 2, or government entities, are
