Join us to learn more about the Our Ability Job Board–a great new membership featured offered through our new website and about the impact of accessibility on business
Featured Presentation: The Impact of Accessibility on Business
Agenda:
8:00-8:15 am: Welcome and Disability:IN Minnesota Updates
8:15-8:45 am: Intro to the Our Ability Job Board
8:45-9:20 am: Featured Presentation-The Impact of Accessibility on Business
9:20-9:30 am Conclusion
Intro to the Our Ability Job Board: Our Ability Connect is the only professional digital resume system for people with disabilities, specifically created to connect businesses with job openings searching for talented people with disabilities who are seeking employment. Join the hundreds of employers across the country using Our Ability Connect to post job openings and search for qualified candidates with disabilities.
Join us to learn:
- How Our Ability Connect works
- How to get started
- How other companies have benefited from Our Ability Connect
Presenter:
- John Robinson: In March 2018, John Robinson was awarded the Capital Region Chamber Champion of the Year, in front of 1100 New York business leaders! John proudly accepted one of ten national White House Champions of Change for Disability Employment in 2014 in Washington D.C. Since 2011, he’s served as managing partner, CEO and Founder of Our Ability, which provides inclusive workforce and employment consulting, mentoring, workshops, keynotes and seminars on disability and diversity. Our Ability has a coalition of forty (40) New York State businesses interested in hiring individuals with disabilities. John was the subject of “Get Off Your Knees: The John Robinson Story,” a public television documentary and “Get Off Your Knees: A Story of Faith, Courage, and Determination,” an autobiography published in 2009.
The Impact of Accessibility on Business: This presentation will discuss where the current state of digital accessibility is and where it is going for the future. The presenters will be highlighting how accessibility impacts all types of business decisions in today’s environment. They will share practical actions that can be used in day to day work and life to be more accessible.
Presenters:
- Becca Moser: Becca is a Senior Technical Writer on Siteimprove’s Academy team and has been with Siteimprove for three years. She collaborates with subject matter experts around the company (and sometimes outside the company). While working with them she utilizes their expertise and knowledge, and re-purposes this to build out engaging e-learning course outlines for mass consumption. A part of her role is ensuring that digital accessibility is front of mind and implemented with all communication whether internal or external with these courses. She has a true passion to ensure that digital accessibility is a daily part of life.
- Jenny VonYeast: Jenny is a Senior Accessibility Analyst for Siteimprove’s Manual Tester team and has worked for Siteimprove for nearly five years. She ensures that customers, ranging from enterprise multinational organizations to mid-size nonprofits, websites and mobile apps are digitally accessible by scoping, testing, reporting, and delivering an analyses of her findings to improve on. With a degree from the University of Minnesota in Merchandising and previous employment as a recruiter and an optician, she understands accessibility as it relates to the real world, not just code snippets and terminology. Jenny has volunteered as a sighted guide for a local Twin Cities inclusion organization, demonstrating her dedication to accessibility has become more of a passion than a job description.
Cost:
- Members: Free (for member companies and their employees)
- Non-members: $20 per person
- Prospective Disability:IN Minnesota members are welcome to attend their first meeting free. For details, contact [email protected].
RSVP is required to attend. RSVP deadline: November 16, 2020 (5 p.m.)
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