Year: 2021

A checklist and guidance to consider when planning a meeting that may include in-person and virtual participants. As we adapt to facilitating a combination of in-person and virtual working environments, it’s important to make considerations for each style of work to ensure we are also creating an inclusive, collaborative, and productive work environment.

An eight-member jury in Green Bay, Wisconsin returned a verdict of $125,150,000 in favor of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on three claims of disability discrimination against Walmart, the federal agency announced today.

Airbnb is committed to making travel more inclusive. That’s why they’re excited to announce a new collaboration with the National Federation of the Blind, the largest consumer organization of blind people in the United States, to help improve their services and access for the blind community.

The National Council on Disability (NCD)–an independent federal agency–released a report focused on much needed federal regulations that would address among the most significant barriers to health care for people with mobility disabilities.

A groundbreaking bill would help make every transit station in America accessible to those with disabilities — and stop critical accessibility improvements from being put off.

Many companies struggle when it comes to providing inclusive technology in the workplace. People with disabilities routinely face challenges in navigating technology in the office—from websites that aren’t properly designed for visually impaired individuals to computer setups that require a mouse and videoconferencing technology that lacks captioning.

Many staffers are heading back to Capitol Hill, and official visitors aren’t far behind, but the return to offices is prompting questions about gaps in physical and digital accessibility in Congress for staff, lobbyists, constituents and lawmakers with disabilities.

Health providers are grappling now, and probably for some time to come, with a backlog of needs that went unmet as patients stayed home for fear of getting Covid. But human maintenance can only be deferred so long.

This dashboard tracks the accessibility of each state, territory, and District of Columbia’s vaccine information webpage, where information about prioritization, registration, and locations can be found. Read more…

As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to relax safety measures for people who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus and the country begins to reopen, many employers, businesses, families and friend groups are finding themselves in the at-times uncomfortable position of having to ask about others’ vaccination statuses.