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In the United States, it is illegal to discriminate against an applicant on the basis of disability. However, job applications include a list of requirements for applicants to review in order to determine if they are qualified for the position. Employers can, and often do, legally reduce the number of disabled applicants by including unnecessary requirements. Common unnecessary requirements include the ability to lift and carry 40lbs or having a valid driver's license. While these requirements may be necessary for some positions, they are frequently listed as a way for employers to argue that disabled people are unqualified for the position. These requirements reduce disabled applicants in two ways — they either discourage people with disabilities from applying or give employers the option to choose a non-disabled applicant on the basis of these requirements. Employers — it's time to assess your job requirements. #DisabilityInclusion #Disability #AbleismIsTrash #AccessibilityMatters

So honored and excited to announce the release of my TD at Work guide titled "Enhance Accessibility in Virtual Training Environments". This release is timely as it is also National Disability Employment Awareness Month. My thanks to the Association for Talent Development (ATD) and Patricia (Patty) Gaul for this opportunity! Click the link to read a sample chapter! https://lnkd.in/gpQ4vVRx ID: a graphic of computer and overlaying images depicting various learning barriers like disability, literacy, and speaking non-native languages

??5 Things To Know About The Talent Value of the Disability Community: 1??People with disabilities have unique talents and skill sets -- which can directly contribute to an organization's productivity and innovation levels. 2??Hiring people with disabilities has proven to improve overall company culture and increase team collaboration. 3??Prioritizing disability inclusion can enhance a company’s social reputation and help attract top talent. 4??The disability community provides a diverse range of skillsets, professional experience, and educational degrees, from entry to executive level roles. 5??Companies that employ and support people with disabilities out-performed their peers in terms of profitability, creating value, and financial returns. Many companies have yet to fully leverage the talents of people with disabilities due to a lack of understanding, awareness, and general misconceptions about disabilities. Download the 2024 Disability Hiring Guide to learn more: https://hubs.la/Q02Tk_Kx0 #NDEAM #DisabilityHiring #DisabilityInclusion #Recruiting

Today is the first day of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and the theme this year is "Access to Good Jobs for All." Check out the Relay Resources toolkit for resources and tips on how to make your workplace more equitable for disabled people: https://lnkd.in/gKGp449b. #DisabilityInclusion #DisabilityInclusiveWorkplaces #Toolkit #RelayResources #NDEAM2024 #GoodJobs

Here are a few meaningful ways to engage during National Disability Employment Awareness Month. #NDEAM Thanks to The Arc of the United States for sharing the included resources on their website. All links can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eAs3NK8a ID: Accessible PDF including 10 slides detailing ideas on how to promote NDEAM.

Britne Jenke, CPACC, CPTD is spending some time in Ohio this month and looking forward to presenting at conferences by Greater Cincinnati Association for Talent Development - GCATD and Organization Development Network! Also catch a couple virtual presentations for ATD Lake Superior and IAAP - International Association of Accessibility Professionals. We hope to see you at one of these events! Image Description: An orange gradient reads "October Events" with a list of 4 events. The events appear on white bubbles with the dates in yellow bubbles, and each organization logo is shown to the right. A gradient bubble at the bottom reads "@InclusivePixel" and "InclusivePixel.com" with the Inclusive Pixelation logo in the center.

?? Learn how to harness AI to create inclusive spaces with diverse data and enhanced accessibility features. ?? Boost engagement through AI-driven tools for matching, event management, and virtual community support. ?? And promote ethical AI use by ensuring transparency, combating harassment, and enhancing human interaction with Britne Jenke, CPACC, CPTD's session "The Role of AI in Building Accessible and Inclusive Communities" at the ODN International Summit 2024! ??? ?? Register today to join us next week: https://lnkd.in/gN5cBARf ?? ?? October 16-19, 2024 ?? Virtual & Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH #OrganizationDesign #ArtificialIntelligence #LeadershipDevelopment #ODN2024 #ODN2024Summit #EthicalAI #TransformationManagement #ChangeManagement

October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (#NDEAM). One disturbing and largely illegal action erects an enormous barrier that people with disabilities struggle to overcome. That action is placing an employee with a disability on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) *immediately after* they request an accommodation. This isn’t a rare occurrence. In fact, it's so frequent that it’s one of the top reasons why people with disabilities don’t ask for the support they need in the workplace. When someone requests an accommodation, they are seeking support. Instead, they’re often met with the first step towards their termination. This sends a clear message: "You asked for help, and now your job is at risk." Retaliatory PIPs are a thinly veiled way of avoiding accommodations. Labeling an employee as a problem after they ask for help is disingenuous at best and potentially fraudulent. This practice forces people to hide their disabilities or leave jobs entirely, destroying trust, driving away talented employees, and increasing turnover costs. Here's what employers should be doing instead: - Listen First: Understand what’s being asked for and why. This is the first step of the interactive process, which is the minimum required by the #EEOC - Solve, Don’t Punish: Identify if performance issues are due to a lack of accommodations. - Encourage, Don’t Deter: Employees should feel safe requesting support, not punished for making the request. Let’s use #NDEAM to break this toxic cycle. Asking for accommodations should never end a career. #AccessibilityMemeMonday #DisabilityInclusion #Accessibility #DisabilityRights #Disability #Inclusion #NDEAM2024 Alt:Simulated mobile phone call. Potential Fraud Call A PIP Right after requesting accommodations. Three action buttons: 1. Remind me 2. Message 3. Slide to answer

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web Consortium, founded by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. We made a 2:27 video using graphic elements and text running on a timeline from 1989 to 2024 to highlight milestones for #W3C and the Internet: 1989, Tim Berners-Lee invented the Web. 1993, Mosaic, the first web browser. 1994, W3C is created. 1994, 1 million Internet users. 1994, Netscape Navigator. 1995, HTML, CSS, and PNG, the foundational standards of the Web. 1995, eBay. 1996, Amazon; Netscape’s IPO starts a trend of web startups. 1997, 3 million Internet users. 1997, creation of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative. 1997, IBM's Deep Blue, a computer, defeats Garry Kasparov, a human. 1998, launch of the W3C Internationalization Activity. 1998, ICANN takes responsibility for the the internet’s unique identifiers. In 2000 the Y2K Bug did not happen, BUT, the .com bubble did burst. 2001, SVG; Wikipedia is founded. 2003, W3C's Patent Policy mandates royalty-free web standards. 2003,15 million Internet users. 2003, iTunes, Skype voice-over IP calling, LinkedIn, WordPress, MySpace. 2004 to 2007 Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the first iPhone. 2011, WebRTC becomes a standard. 2013, 250 million Internet users. 2014, W3C launches the Web Payments Initiative. 2018, European Union’s GDPR. 2018, ActivityPub, a decentralized social networking protocol. 2018, 1 Billion Internet users. 2019, WebAuthn. 2020, covid halted everything. But W3C standards enabled the world to rely on the web during the pandemic. 2020, 3 Billion Internet users. 2023, creation of W3C Inc, an international public-interest non-profit. 2024, W3C celebrates 30 years of making the web work, for everyone. See our clip with audio description: