2013 ADA regulation

[royal]

I am thinking of starting full vending service in the east valley Arizona. I came cross this site while researching vending start-up. I was in this site earlier today and there were some postings about the 2013 ADA regulations concerning vending machines. From the discussion it looked like the new ADA regulations require that vending machines to have under 48" high reach for credit and cash slots and 15" low reach for dispenser. If this is correct, what is going to happen to all the existing machines which can't be revised to meet the new ADA regulation.  

[AZVendor]

The ADA regulations are for new equipment manufacturers, not for legacy machines.  You don't need to worry about this as all the US manufacturers have both compliant and non-compliant equipment.  If you install an account that requires ADA machines (unlucky you) then they are available but you will pay new retail for them.  There is no word yet on what might happen in the way of enforcement, such as the Feds deciding that any machines going into any new account must be ADA compliant, but it is pretty certain that any machines already on location and to be located in the foreseeable future are not required to be ADA compliant until the Feds say otherwise.  Then it likely will apply only to new installations, or perhaps in governmental locations.

 

I am in the Phoenix area if you need any technical help, service calls or parts.

[Vendors Tech]

I have also heard that the ADA requirements are almost non-existent as a condition of coming into a new account, except at places like Federal/State buildings and maybe schools.  Most businesses recognize ADA requirements for the joke that they are, and don't require them.  And they are a joke.  Disabled people still bought from vending machines before these requirements came around.  Most people when you tell them that Legacy non ADA machines, which is most of what's out there, are not compliant, and that you would have to spend $1000s to get new ones that are, they will back off ADA if they were considering it.  It all will depend on the location.  If you end up in government buildings, you are going to have to comply with ADA.  Stay in private businesses, and you probably won't have to worry about it.  I quit full line vending in 2012, and I never once even had the subject of ADA machines come up during the process of talking with potential new accounts.

[Walta]

If the enforcement for vending is like the rest of the ADA law. When a disabled person is inconvenienced by noncompliant building that is not grandfathered they can sue and collect an amount similar to the cost of compliance.

 

Walta