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WINNETKA, Ill. (WLS) -- Winnetka-based nonprofit Hadley has been helping people thrive despite vision loss for the last 100 years. "If you're experiencing vision loss and and need help to figure out ...

East Hanover, NJ – May 23, 2023 – New data show that while individuals with visual disabilities were slow to recover employment because of the effects of the COVID-2019 lockdown, they have made ...

Colin Wong, a blind Ph.D. student, can’t forget having to pay US$100 for an Uber when he needed to take a standardized test. There was no testing center in San Francisco, where he lived, that could ...

One of the exciting things about serving on the Forbes Technology Council is the ability to learn about new technologies before they hit the mainstream. My research has led me to some areas that can ...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new technical assistance document (“TAD”), “Visual Disabilities in the Workplace and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” addressing how the ...

Stevie Wonder. Ray Charles. Andrea Bocelli. If you were to ask a random person to name a blind musician, one of those three would almost inevitably come up. Ask that same person about up-and-coming ...

But more than 30 years since its passage, people with disabilities, like advocate Catarina Rivera, say there is still more work to be done—both in the way we accommodate people with disabilities and ...

A federal court ruled that New York must install thousands of accessible pedestrian signals at intersections throughout the city. Thousands of new crosswalk signals will be installed in New York City ...

Whether or not you’re legally required to accommodate disabilities in the workplace, it makes good business sense to do so. Follow this six-step accommodation process. If your business has 15 or more ...