Today is the day the final regulations governing the Americans with Disabilities Act, as amended (ADAA), became effective. Much has been written heralding these new regulations which provide definition to the Act’s amendments, which were effective over two years ago.

The media, including blogs, have largely focused on how the new regulations didn’t really change much, which is true. So from a media perspective, this “effective date” has largely gone unnoticed. This is an unfortunate message because this assumes that management has already been instituting the major changes demanded by the 2008 Amendments that are now “old” news. In my experience, businesses still do not understand those changes. Do you? If you can’t answer “yes” to the following questions, you still have some work to do....