October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM)! All month long, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite resources on accessibility and disability inclusion in the workplace.
This post features some great articles I’ve read lately on accessibility and disability inclusion in human resources. (Did you miss the article roundup on learning and development?)
- 5 Ways to Improve Accessibility at Work (HRCI) – With a few ideas you may not have considered! Those five ideas are: Conduct an Accessibility Audit, Create Intersectional Policies and Processes, Move from Compliance to Culture, Build a Disability Employee Resource Group (ERG), and Promote People With Disabilities to Leadership Roles.
- The Business Case for Implementing an Accessibility Strategy (HRCI) – Need to make the business case for accessibility at your place of work? Consider these three areas: Controlling Costs and Risks, Expanding Access to Talent, and Improving Productivity through Universal Design.
- Developing an Accessible Workplace – A complete toolkit from SHRM on designing and supporting and accessible workplace – with resources and strategies for all areas of human resources, including attraction, recruiting, interviewing, accommodations, performance management, retention, and more – including usable templates!
- Make It Safe for Employees to Disclose Their Disabilities (Harvard Business Review) – A survey found that the majority of employees with disabilities don’t feel their workplace culture is committed to helping them thrive and succeed. This article offers five steps that organizations can take to make people with disabilities feel safe and included so that they will be willing to disclose their conditions.
- Bonus! IT Accessibility Policy Framework – Human Resources Management – A rather complete guide to meeting Section 508 Standards for HR technology procurement and management. This was such a neat resource to find! (And I can’t wait to share more about my Section 508 studies!)
I hope you found these perspectives as interesting as I did! Stay tuned for the next post with some final resources for NDEAM.