This Accenture whitepaper demonstrates the value of inclusive design and disability inclusion policies and practices. Accessibility awareness and inclusivity not only support workplace equality but are often correlated with growth and profitability. This paper recommends four key steps for accessibility and inclusive design implementation: employ, enable, engage, empower. Incremental steps taken today pave the way for a sustained organizational culture of innovation and disability inclusion in the future.

The Valuable 500 launched a guide on self-identification on various topics such as the process of self-identification for persons with disabilities, the psychology of self-identification and why it is important for companies to create cultures of trust, ultimately enabling persons with disabilities to feel comfortable disclosing their disability. This guide also highlights other important topics like reasonable adjustments, training, and Employee Resource Groups, among many others.

The Valuable 500 launched a guide on self-identification on various topics such as the process of self-identification for persons with disabilities, the psychology of self-identification and why it is important for companies to create cultures of trust, ultimately enabling persons with disabilities to feel comfortable disclosing their disability. This guide also highlights other important topics like reasonable adjustments, training, and Employee Resource Groups, among many others.

Aimed at all kind of employers, this awareness campaign by Humanity & Inclusion (H&I) brings together information and free resources on the 5 dimensions of inclusion in companies, as well as key figures and advice to help you assert your CSR commitments and become an inclusive employer for people with disabilities.

Some key findings of the report:

Digital accessibility, not as a compliance measure, but as a “human-first” based digital inclusion transformation initiative, is at the beginning of its journey. If companies can establish digital accessibility as a foundational pillar to their overall digital transformation strategy and engage employees with disabilities at the product and service and workplace design phase, then we can begin to move digital impact measurement of digital accessibility away from compliance and over to innovation and business differentiation.

The future of work is still to be shaped, and we can all influence it to some extent. Driven by this idea and aware of the urgency to take action, the ILO Global Business and Disability Network and Fundación ONCE have developed this publication. This is a first exercise to connect different areas of debate, looking at the key trends of the future of work from a disability perspective and seeking to identify specific action needed in order to shape the future of work in a more disability-inclusive way.

EY produced this booklet, showcasing key learning from speakers at their recent disability conference for global employers, providing practical tips on what you can do to increase disability confidence in your organizations.

This Accenture whitepaper demonstrates the value of inclusive design and disability inclusion policies and practices. Accessibility awareness and inclusivity not only support workplace equality but are often correlated with growth and profitability. This paper recommends four key steps for accessibility and inclusive design implementation: employ, enable, engage, empower. Incremental steps taken today pave the way for a sustained organizational culture of innovation and disability inclusion in the future.

As technology evolves and new platforms emerge, the way businesses design and develop new technology will determine the inclusiveness of our digital society. New technologies have the potential to bring an estimated 350 million people with disabilities into the workforce over the next 10 years—provided we design with accessibility in mind today.