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Shedding Light on Daylight Saving Time: Ensuring Inclusivity for People with Disabilities

While Daylight Saving Time might seem like a minor inconvenience or an hour of lost sleep for many, it can have a considerable impact on people with disabilities. As companies strive to foster inclusive environments, it's important to consider the unique challenges this time shift may present.  Routine Adaptation: [...]

2024-03-08T16:08:17-05:00March 8th, 2024|Mental Health, Neurodiversity / Autism|

March Digital Accessibility Roundup

Welcome to Disability: IN’s monthly round up of digital accessibility news for March. At Disability:IN we know that digital accessibility impacts all aspects of disability inclusion. If you have questions about our digital accessibility program, please contact Jeff Wissel, our Chief Accessibility Officer. Disability:IN Happenings Rounding out our cross-channel [...]

2024-02-29T15:50:52-05:00February 29th, 2024|Digital Accessibility|

HR Brew: World of HR: Disability Equality Index expands globally

Disability:IN hopes it will increase disability inclusion and representation at more multinational companies.HR pros may soon have a better understanding of what disability inclusion looks like in different countries, thanks to a recently expanded benchmarking index.Where in the world? Disability:IN, the organization behind the Disability Equality Index (DEI), an annual [...]

2024-02-26T10:55:53-05:00February 26th, 2024|Global, In the News|

Fortune CHRO Daily: Only 10% of Fortune 500 companies disclose how many people with disabilities work at their organization—but employees expect more transparency

Good morning! The mainstreaming of remote work and a renewed emphasis on DEI programs in 2020 has put disability inclusion in the limelight over the past few years, and the workforce participation rate for people with disabilities has hit record highs. And as those numbers have gone up, more companies [...]

2024-01-31T12:37:46-05:00January 31st, 2024|In the News|

Event Marketer: Q&A: Inside Google’s New ‘Inclusive Event Design Guide’ for the Industry

“Google wants to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible—that is the mission of the company—and I think if you follow that sentiment to its logical conclusion, accessibility and making things accessible to all of our users can only happen if we understand what our users need, [...]

2024-01-31T12:13:33-05:00January 31st, 2024|In the News|

Forbes: Disability:IN Internationalizes Corporate Inclusion Benchmarking With New Tool

Virginia-based corporate disability inclusion best practice and benchmarking expert Disability:IN has announced plans to launch its acclaimed Disability Equality Index internationally. The index measures corporate disability metrics and maturity through survey data across important categories such as culture and leadership, enterprise-wide access, employment practices, community engagement and supplier diversity. [...]

2024-01-31T11:55:45-05:00January 31st, 2024|In the News|

February Digital Accessibility Roundup

Welcome to Disability: IN’s monthly round up of digital accessibility news for February. At Disability:IN we know that digital accessibility impacts all aspects of disability inclusion. If you have questions about our digital accessibility program, please contact Jeff Wissel, our Chief Accessibility Officer. Disability:IN Happenings There is an exciting [...]

2024-01-31T10:54:21-05:00January 31st, 2024|Digital Accessibility|
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