Awareness Is A Building Block Of Actual Change
Blindness Awareness Month is an opportunity for companies to transform their culture and serve the needs of customers and employees with disabilities.
Leveraging Understanding to Build a More Inclusive Workplace
Thomas Frantz, Senior Manager of Accessibility Partnerships and PR at Salesforce, and Sebastiaan de Man, Principal SE Service Cloud EMEA at Salesforce, discuss their experiences working with ADHD.
How Disability Awareness & Acceptance Helped this Event Supervisor Be His Authentic Self in the Workplace
Justin Lacap, an event supervisor at Salesforce, discusses how he finally felt comfortable living with a speech and language disorder in the workplace for the first time in his career.
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Accessibility
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DEAM
How to Improve the Hiring Process & Create a More Inclusive Workplace, According to an Accessibility Support Engineer
Darrell Hilliker, an accessibility support engineer at Salesforce, talks about his experience with the hiring process as someone with a disability and how corporations can be more inclusive.
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Celebrating Disability Employment Awareness Month & Making It a Global Cause
National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) is observed annually to celebrate the vast contributions to America’s economy made by people with disabilities and to raise awareness about the employment issues they continue to face.
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How the Americans With Disabilities Act Has Changed Communication for the d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Community
The Americans with Disabilities Act provides individuals who are d/Deaf or hard of hearing with auxiliary services that enable effective communication with the hearing population and provide equal opportunities to participate in and benefit from services.
Disability Advocacy
Guide
Day in the Life: Understanding the Experiences of People With Speech & Language Disorders
This guide outlines some of the daily challenges and experiences of people with speech and language disorders and how they overcome them.
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Disability Advocacy
Guide
Living With a Learning Disability: Challenges, Helpful Advice & Improvements
Living with a learning disability presents daily challenges, from understanding text or nonverbal social cues to accessing and utilizing websites for products and services. Understanding and addressing potential barriers to this community—in education, web design, and many other areas—is critical to helping improve inclusion and acceptance, for all.
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Making Your Website More Accessible for People With Physical Disabilities
Adhering to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and recommendations from reputable design improvement resources can help ensure your website is accessible to people with physical disabilities.
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Disability Advocacy
How to Improve Web Accessibility & Digital Inclusion for Those With Mental Health Disabilities
To improve accessibility and digital inclusion for those with mental health disabilities, developers and businesses should incorporate Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), heightened sensitivity and awareness, and gentler tones into website designs and messaging. This comprehensive guide provides an overview of this significant community, along with common conditions, barriers, improvements, and much more.
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The Major Obstacles to Digital Inclusion & Accessibility Faced by the d/Deaf Community
The d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities face myriad obstacles navigating the digital world, including lack of captions and interpretations, low-quality audio, and social media inaccessibility, among other barriers.
Accessibility
Disability Advocacy
Guide
Get to Know the Learning Disability Community
This explainer outlines the scope and diversity of this expansive Learning Disability community and provides support and advocacy resources to help raise awareness, improve inclusivity, and increase acceptance.
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Disability Advocacy
Guide
Developing Digital Inclusion & Usability Strategies for People With Speech & Language Disorders
People with speech and language disorders often face barriers when navigating the internet and accessing websites. Implementing common sense strategies to improve digital inclusion and accessibility enhances the overall experience for all users, especially those with disabilities.
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Salesforce Signs On as Founding Partner of InclusionHub, a Comprehensive Digital Accessibility Resource & Database
Salesforce has joined InclusionHub as a founding partner, underlining the increasingly important role the digital accessibility resource and database plays as a tool for educating and informing those who work to improve digital experiences.
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Disability Advocacy
Looks Can Be Deceiving: A Glimpse into the Personal World of a Professional Spoony
“The Spoon Theory” describes the experience of living with a chronic disease or illness, with “spoons” representing units of energy available to those people over the course of a day.
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Celebrating National Disability Independence Day
National Disability Independence Day, celebrated annually on July 26, commemorates passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the U.S. law prohibiting discrimination against those with disabilities.
Design
Industry Spotlight
Disability Advocacy
Annie Jean-Baptiste: Advocating for Product Inclusion Through Every Development Phase
Annie Jean-Baptiste, head of product inclusion at Google, utilizes her platform to advocate for more equity in product development across industries.
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Guide
Improving Accessibility & Digital Inclusion for Those With Physical Disabilities
Incorporating WCAG compliance and input from people with physical disabilities into website designs expands an organization’s reach while improving digital accessibility and inclusion for those otherwise facing significant barriers.
Accessibility
Industry Spotlight
Disability Advocacy
Lainey Feingold: Defending Civil Rights Through Collaboration
Lainey Feingold is a civil rights lawyer who specializes in making the digital world more accessible through Structured Negotiation. She has negotiated agreements with Major League Baseball, Walmart, Bank of America, and others.
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Industry Spotlight
Michael Berhane: Helping People of Color in Tech to Engage, Create & Get Hired
How an interview project evolved into an online information hub, recruiting platform, and podcast to improve diversity in the technology industry.
Industry Spotlight
Disability Advocacy
Alice Wong: Amplifying the Voices of Disabled People and Advocating for Visibility
Disabled activist, consultant, and media maker Alice Wong is the founder and director of the Disability Visibility Project and editor of Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century.
