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Ways To Promote Disability Awareness In The Workplace

Lionel Wolberger
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Sep 13, 2022,08:00am EDT|

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Lionel Wolberger is COO of UserWay, a full accessibility solutions provider, and a W3C Accessible Platforms Architect.

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Ongoing disability awareness in the workplace is essential for enterprises striving to achieve full digital accessibility for their customers as well as their employees. Without a structured and intentional advocacy plan in place, full digital accessibility compliance efforts can derail. In other words, if disability awareness is never adopted into the ethos of a company, accessibility initiatives can quickly become just another task to keep management happy. Digital accessibility should be driven by the desire to create products and services that support equal opportunity among marginalized communities.

Achieving this shift in values requires a top-down investment into culture building, where executives take measured and intentional steps to support disability awareness training.

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