By ensuring that your company’s structures, practices, and systems are accessible, your company can signal that employees and customers with disabilities are valuable to your business.

Oct 29, 2021

Is Your Business’s Online Job Search Process Accessible for People With Disabilities?

By Charles Catherine | Essential Accessibility Blog | October 28th, 2021     If you look around your neighborhood these days, chances are you will see a lot of “help wanted” signs dotting the business landscape. As we repeatedly hear, a labor shortage is gripping our nation and employers are struggling to find people wanting […]

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Jul 21, 2020

4 Ways Telehealth Is Changing Healthcare Consumer Behavior for the Better

Virtual care has the potential to address inequities, inconveniences and public health risks if access continues to grow and evolve, a PwC study finds. Posted July 21st, 2020 | By Brian Eastwood   Data from the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic shows that U.S. consumers made a massive shift to telehealth. What’s more, a […]

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Feb 22, 2023

Long Covid is a Disability. Here’s How to Ask for Workplace Accommodations.

New studies offer clues about who may be more susceptible to long Covid, a term for lingering Covid-19 symptoms. WSJ breaks down the science of long Covid and the state of treatment.

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Oct 26, 2022

For Disabled Workers, a Tight Labor Market Opens New Doors

“Remote work and remote-work options are something that our community has been advocating for for decades, and it’s a little frustrating that for decades corporate America was saying it’s too complicated, we’ll lose productivity, and now suddenly it’s like, sure, let’s do it,” said Charles-Edouard Catherine, director of corporate and government relations for the National Organization on Disability.

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Jan 5, 2022

Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge Gives First On-Camera Interview Since Suffering Stroke

December 28th, 2021 | Lori Burkholder, Anchor Watch the interview here He shared his journey following a health scare over the summer. “I’m getting better every day by increments. I can tell. I’m doing great. Fabulous. Better than I was a couple months ago, that’s for sure,” he said. In his first on-camera interview since […]

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Oct 29, 2021

Is Your Business’s Online Job Search Process Accessible for People With Disabilities?

By Charles Catherine | Essential Accessibility Blog | October 28th, 2021     If you look around your neighborhood these days, chances are you will see a lot of “help wanted” signs dotting the business landscape. As we repeatedly hear, a labor shortage is gripping our nation and employers are struggling to find people wanting […]

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Nov 25, 2019

Shifting the Talent Paradigm | Shift Communications: Breaking Barriers with Technology

  September 26, 2019 – More than 200 diversity and inclusion leaders from companies around the country gathered at the National Organization on Disability’s (NOD) Annual Forum and Dinner, entitled Shifting the Talent Paradigm: Inclusive Culture for a Modern Workforce. Sponsored by Lead Partners PwC and Spectrum, the all-day forum explored the best change management […]

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NOD Leadership Council Member Content

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Rethinking Your Hiring Technology: An eRecruiting Checklist for Employers
This Checklist, from PEAT, can help ensure that employers are building, buying, and implementing eRecruiting tools and workplace technologies accessible to everyone.
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Ableism in the Workplace and Beyond
People with disabilities face ableism every day in various aspects of our lives. Learn how one inter-abled couple, Youtube stars Cole and Charisma Sydnor, confronts these assumptions and attitudes by sharing their lives with millions.
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Building Tomorrow’s Accessible Workplaces
During the COVID era of rapid change, digital technology is critical in helping us stay connected. But not all tech is created equal. Many digital tools are not built to accommodate people with disabilities, leaving these users disconnected from colleagues, clients and friends. Learn from corporate leaders who are designing the workplaces of the future and pushing accessibility beyond compliance.
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7 Steps to Make Your Virtual Meetings + Presentations Accessible with PEAT
Ease the transition to telework with seven essential steps that will ensure your company's digital communications and platforms are accessible to employees with disabilities
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COVID-19 Conference Call: Making Work Accessible
Jeremy Zilar of Digital.gov presents on how to deploy accessible technology to support employees with disabilities during the pandemic.
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Compilation of Resources on Accessibility
By ensuring that your digital systems and tools are accessible, your company can signal that employees and customers with disabilities are a valuable to your business, in addition to staying compliant with legal requirements. 
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5 Ways to Ensure Your Website is Accessible to Job Candidates with Disabilities
eSSENTIAL Accessibility is a one-stop-shop for companies seeking digital accessibility expertise, with an approach that goes beyond compliance. Top companies, including Merck, Toys“R”Us, Mastercard and Marriott, partner with eSSENTIAL Accessibility to signal their commitment to people with disabilities.
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eRecruiting & Accessibility: Is HR Technology Hurting Your Bottom Line?
An interactive chat with subject matter experts on how accessible HR technology can help companies recruit talent with disabilities.

 

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