The goal is to ensure that the recognition meaningfully builds a company’s reputation for diversity and inclusion with potential employees, investors, and customers, including customers with disabilities.

Top-scoring companies are recognized as a “Best Places to Work for Disability Inclusion™”.

As such, AAPD and Disability:IN will recognize top-scoring companies in the following ways:

  • Use of 100%/90%/80% DEI Best Places to Work logo
  • Best Places to Work listing on the DEI website
  • Best Places to Work listing in the DEI Annual Report
  • Press Releases
  • Digital marketing, including social media
  • Recognition at the Annual Disability:IN conference
  • Invite-only “DEI Top-Scoring Companies” reception at the Annual Disability:IN Conference
  • May have a best practice(s) published in the DEI Annual Report or DEI Best Practices Report
  • Media inquiries on a case-by-case basis

Please Note: A score of 100 does not mean to convey “perfection.” AAPD and Disability:IN recognize there is no single best way to practice inclusion, and that some practices may be more effective for some companies or industries than others. A score of 100 on the DEI simply means that a company adheres to many of the numerous leading disability inclusion practices featured in the DEI, but there’s still room for improvement.