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    This chapter provides definitions for key terms used in the manual, including: - Access, which means enabling persons with disabilities to approach, enter, and leave buildings without assistance. - Accessible, which describes sites, buildings, or portions that can be approached, entered, and used by persons with disabilities per the manual's requirements. - Common areas, which are open and available for common use and enjoyment by all building occupants. - Persons with disabilities, which includes those impaired in vision, hearing, or locomotion due to injury, disease, or congenital deformity.

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    This chapter provides definitions for key terms used in the manual, including: - Access, which means enabling persons with disabilities to approach, enter, and leave buildings without assistance. - Accessible, which describes sites, buildings, or portions that can be approached, entered, and used by persons with disabilities per the manual's requirements. - Common areas, which are open and available for common use and enjoyment by all building occupants. - Persons with disabilities, which includes those impaired in vision, hearing, or locomotion due to injury, disease, or congenital deformity.

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    This chapter provides definitions for key terms used in the manual, including: - Access, which means enabling persons with disabilities to approach, enter, and leave buildings without assistance. - Accessible, which describes sites, buildings, or portions that can be approached, entered, and used by persons with disabilities per the manual's requirements. - Common areas, which are open and available for common use and enjoyment by all building occupants. - Persons with disabilities, which includes those impaired in vision, hearing, or locomotion due to injury, disease, or congenital deformity.

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    CHAPTER 3

    PRELIMINARY

    1. INTERPRETATION

    For the purpose of this Manual, the following terms are defined as: -

    Access is means to enable persons with a disability to approach, enter and leave
    the building and to use the facilities therein without assistance or undue difficulties.

    Accessible describes a site, building, facility or portion thereof that is barrier-free,


    can be approached, entered and used by persons with a disability and complies with
    this Manual.

    Accessible lift means a lift fully complied with the obligatory design requirements in
    Division 19.

    Accessible route is a continuous unobstructed path which is easily identifiable for


    persons with a disability or the elderly to approach, enter and leave the building and
    to use the facilities therein without assistance or undue difficulties.

    Assistive listening system means a system which enables sound signs that are
    amplified in both volume and signal to be transmitted to persons with hearing
    impairment without interference from background noise or excessive reverberation.

    Common areas are those areas open to and available for the common use and
    enjoyment of all occupiers of the building.

    Door includes one leaf of a pair of double doors.

    Persons with a disability means persons who on account of injury, disease, or


    congenital deformity, are impaired in vision, hearing or locomotion. Such persons
    shall include persons with ambulant disabilities, wheelchair users, persons with visual
    impairment, the blind, persons with hearing impairment and the deaf.

    Persons with ambulant disabilities are persons with ambulant impairment who may
    require the aid of devices such as prostheses, orthoses, sticks or crutches for walking.

    Required staircase means an access staircase in a firefighting and rescue stairway


    or a staircase required for means of escape in case of fire.

    Tactile guide path means a standardized pattern applied to or built onto walking
    surfaces through the combined use of tactile directional tiles / blocks, positional tiles /
    blocks and tactile hazard warning tiles / blocks for way finding and orientation for
    persons with visual impairment.

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