For years organizations seeking a competitive advantage have embraced diversity; but today the leading enterprises have found a new source of growth–people with disabilities. The global market represents 1.3 billion people and their 2.3 billion family members, friends, caregivers and colleagues; aggregately people with disabilities account for an astounding $8 trillion dollars in disposable income.

Does your law firm have a website? Do you want its content to be available to as many people as possible? Do you want all your site visitors (including potential clients) to read about your cases, contact you through an on-line form, or learn about the attorneys in your practice? If your answer is “yes” your

Laws meant to help the disabled have had unintended consequences. For an inkling of how good intentions can go awry, consider Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Passed by Congress in 1990 with the laudable aim of giving the disabled equal access to places of business, it has been supplemented with new Department of Justice standards (in 2010, for example, the DOJ said that miniature horses can qualify as service animals).

With the youngest of the baby boomers hitting 65 by 2029, the number of people with visual impairment or blindness in the United States is expected to double to more than 8 million by 2050, according to projections based on the most recent census data and from studies funded by the National Eye Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health. Another 16.4 million Americans are expected to have difficulty seeing due to correctable refractive errors such as myopia (nearsightedness) or hyperopia (farsightedness) that can be fixed with glasses, contacts or surgery.

Google's Eve Andersson tells Co.Design how today's accessibility problems could lead to improvements in robots, Google Maps, and even YouTube. "Accessibility is a basic human right," Eve Andersson tells me, sitting on a lawn at the Shoreline Amphitheater during this year's Google I/0 developer conference. "It benefits everyone." Soft spoken and ginger-haired, Andersson is the

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has reportedly opened as many as 350 recent nationwide complaint investigations into whether educational agencies' websites are accessible to individuals with disabilities.

In order to ensure appropriate accessible technology is used in the financial services sector, it is important that customers with disabilities know what’s available to them. A 2015 report released by the National Disability Institute (NDI) found: Forty-six percent of households headed by an adult with a disability were unbanked or underbanked in 2013, compared

When I was a kid I played Army and caught frogs. I often joke that my adult career in criminal justice was a natural consequence of those activities. What else could I do? It never occurred to me to become a disability rights advocate. But in some measure that is what I have become. Because

According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and World Bank, about 15.3 percent of the world’s population lives with some form of disability. Many of them are not provided with equal opportunities in obtaining financial products and services as compared with their peers; they are often unable to engage in services involving the financial sector

Published April 29, 2016 By John D. Kemp, President & CEO of The Viscardi Center, and Brandon M. Macsata, General Consultant, National Business & Disability Council (NBDC) at The Viscardi Center In 2013, Dorie Clark outlined in Forbes Magazine how societal acceptance toward the LGBT community was transforming the modern day business enterprise. [1] For businesses