When Career Websites Aren’t Accessible, Everyone Loses
By Casey Naiduk, Head of Content and Experience
Published October 29, 2020
You may have read articles in the past that detail the consistently lower levels of gainful employment held by individuals with disabilities. You might have reviewed summaries and cases made to highlight how workers with disabilities are more likely to work part-time and less likely to be promoted. You may read articles about one-off opportunities for reflecting on workplace inclusion, like those related to Labor Day or National Disability Employment Awareness Month. This isn’t one of those. In fact, this article won’t try to convince you of anything. This is more of a public service announcement so you know: When career websites aren’t accessible, everyone loses.
To lay some common ground, “accessible” here means that people with disabilities, along with any assistive technologies they might use, can use all the features of the website independently. Sometimes accessibility refers to something being available, but in this context it isn’t enough that something is available [...]