Accessibility

By Stéphane Pierre Louis | Associate KMA traveled to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in May 2018 to improve its understanding of the country’s accessibility efforts and meet with several NGOs and [...]

by J Garofalo | Designer / Access Planner Assisted Listening Systems (ALS) are required to be provided in assembly areas per both the ADA and 521 CMR. These devices range in capability and [...]

by Maxwell T. Goldman Access Planner I’m a great shopper, and thanks to the web, most people are. With so many choices, and so many retailers online and in stores, getting exactly what I want, [...]

by Maxwell T. Goldman Access Planner The first time I used my scooter in the snow was an experience I’ll never forget. I was a sophomore in college, heading back to my dorm after class when [...]

by Julia Garofalo | Intern Architect / Access Planner As an undergraduate student, I initially majored in Deaf Studies to be a sign language interpreter. Each semester, ASL students had to attend [...]

by Hazel Ryerson, CAPS | Job Caption/Project Designer One of the challenges I’ve run into at the KMA Design Studio is how to balance the regulatory accessibility requirements for multifamily [...]

by Josh Safdie | Principal The sixth Paralympic Games, held in the Netherlands in June of 1980, were originally intended by the International Olympic and Paralympic Committees to be held [...]

by Stéphane Pierre Louis | Intern Architect/Access Planner What is accessibility in Haiti? The Haitian people are known as a resilient people, primarily because a lack of resources forces people [...]

by Kathryn Denis | Access Planner I recently took part in a panel discussion at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) on micro-units and accessibility.  Along with Bill Henning, executive [...]

KMA began working with the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) – Boston’s premiere hospitals and health care providers – shortly after it learned that it was not in full [...]