Efforts to boost voter turnout by people with disabilities during the 2012 election cycle seems to have paid off in at least one New Jersey community, where a local organization reports that 84% of its members had their voices heard at the polls this past November. The figure far surpasses the national turnout of all [...]
There will be joy in Murrysville this year. Once winter turns to spring in this Pennsylvania community just east of Pittsburgh, the Bill Mazeroski Miracle Field will begin holding softball games for people with disabilities of all ages. According to staff writer Daveen Rae Kurutz’s article in the Murrysville Star, the field is the latest [...]
Judy Owens’ Diary of a Start-up blog for Forbes should be bookmarked by anyone interested in the employment outlook of people with disabilities. For over a year now, the St. Petersburg, Florida, entrepreneur has provided a running account of her launch of Opportunity Works, Inc., a job placement service for people with disabilities, and it has [...]
Hiring people with disabilities has been a healthy business decision for a gym in the New Orleans suburbs, improving the workplace while providing skills and work experience to these individuals and easing the demand on taxpayer-supported services. Kari Dequine Harden, who works in the New Orleans bureau of the Baton Rouge’s daily, The Advocate, visited [...]
Picking up where we left off yesterday in the examination of the Boston Globe online feature, “Products made in Massachusetts,” to see which ones might provide good employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Alden Rowing Shells This Boxborough manufacturer of recreational and competitive rowing shells and accessories is frequently credited as making the sport accessible [...]
Today, we continue looking at manufacturing companies listed in the Boston Globe online feature, “Products made in Massachusetts,” to find where people with disabilities might be a good fit for employment opportunities. Cubist Pharmaceuticals Much like HP Hood, the HR department for this Lexington drug manufacturer uses inclusive phrasing (“Reasonable accommodations may be made to [...]
Advocates for people with disabilities have focused a great deal of their recent efforts to boost employment opportunities for these individuals on the manufacturing sector. Labor Department officials and business leaders across the U.S. worked hard in 2012 to make the case that hiring these individuals, either through contract service organizations or as full-time employees, [...]
We conclude our series with a look at the 50,000 euro grand prize winner and runner-ups in the Social Participation category at the 2012 Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards. Vodafone, one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of mobile phone technology, launched the first competition last year with the help of the European Disability Forum and AGE [...]
The winning app in the Independent Living category of the 2012 Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards was also the most highly-rated entry of the entire competition, according to one of the judges, Stuart Dredge, in his recap for The Guardian‘s Apps Blog. One look at the amount of content it puts at the fingertips of people [...]
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas Day with their loved ones. We pick up on Monday’s review of the 2012 Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards with a look at the winning entry and two runner-ups in the Mobility category. Obviously, Mobility apps are right in the wheelhouse of smartphone technology developers. When you’re out of [...]