(AP) WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the ...

A loosely written new federal requirement that by May 21 all public pools must be outfitted with permanent wheelchair lifts — if readily achievable — has caused confusion among local hotel operators.

Advocates for the disabled are calling for a boycott of certain hotel companies, saying the lodging industry is attempting to undermine equal access to hotels’ swimming pools. A federal regulation ...

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is sidestepping an election-year confrontation with the hotel industry and other pool owners to give them more time to comply with access rules for the disabled.

Disabled people complain that in cities where lifts are already required, portable lifts are often stowed away and that not all employees know how to operate them. And they say that the hotel and ...