Disability-rights advocates push hotel officials to implement pool accessibility


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Despite hotel strikes by several advocacy groups this summer, progress has been stagnant as each side is unwilling to compromise and the government has pushed the issue aside until January.

After a boycott of several hotel chains, leaders of disability-rights groups and representatives of the nation's hotel industry plan to meet Tuesday to discuss requirements that hotels make their pools accessible to handicapped customers. A federal requirement under the Americans with Disability Act says the owners of pools accessible to the public must instal