Yes. The ADA covers doors. Doors are required to be operable with 5 Pounds of force maximum and have a closing speed of 5 seconds or greater from fully open to approximately 8” from fully closed. The openers you mentioned are a great substitute. They serve as an equivalent facilitation to the above listed requirements. They come with a very complex set of requirements that covers pages and too voluminous to list here.
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