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The following is a list of PEAT's recent Facebook activity. You can find us on Facebook at PEAT-Partnership on Employment and Accessible Technology.
Jul 16, 2019
The PEAT team is well-represented today at #XRAccess, in a breakout session facilitated by Joiwind Ronen to discuss how we can create a framework for making new technologies (#XR and beyond) more accessible.
Jul 10, 2019
U.S. Department of Labor has announced the 2019 theme for National Disability Employment Awareness Month: "The Right Talent, Right Now." Check out resources for planning your celebrations this October at https://www.dol.gov/odep/topics/ndeam/resources.htm #NDEAM
Jul 5, 2019
Great roundup of advice on accessible and assistive workplace tech from BusinessNewsDaily: What Small Businesses Need to Know About Assistive Technologies https://www.businessnewsdaily.com/15185-assistive-tech-for-smbs.html
Jul 3, 2019
@departmentoflabor has announced a Excellence in Disability Inclusion (EDI) Award to recognize federal contractors who excel in meeting their responsibilities under Section 503 and exemplify the spirit of disability inclusion. Deadline: August 31 https://www.dol.gov/ediaward
Jun 27, 2019
June eNews: 2019 PEAT Think Tank Summary Report Released, New Future of Work Podcast Episodes, W4A Hackathon and Teach Access Study Away Recaps, and more https://www.peatworks.org/enews/2019/june
Jun 20, 2019
PhD student Ather Sharif recounts how this year's Teach Access Study Away program in Silicon Valley connected participants to the skills, knowledge, and networking contacts needed to build accessible technologies for the future https://www.peatworks.org/blog/2019/jun/teach-access-study-away-engages-...
Jun 11, 2019
This year's expanded Accessibility Hackathon at the Web for All Conference (W4A) created tangible improvements to Jupyter Notebooks and other web-based programming and design tools: https://www.peatworks.org/blog/2019/jun/w4a-accessibility-hackathon-spar...
Jun 10, 2019
Why purchase inclusive tech? "30% of the professional workforce fits the federal definition of having a disability...but only 39% of employees with disabilities have disclosed to their manager. Even fewer have disclosed to their teams (24%) and HR (21%)" http://ow.ly/G5gd50uyfXr
Jun 6, 2019
The M-Enabling Summit is coming up soon! Catch PEAT co-director Josh Christianson’s contributions to the “Technology and Employment” panel on June 17 at 3:30pm at this annual meeting in Washington DC for all who create and use accessible technologies https://m-enabling.com/
Jun 3, 2019
Great article from Sheri Byrne-Haber on how the gig economy impacts people with disabilities: https://medium.com/@sheribyrnehaber/how-the-gig-economy-impacts-people-w.... For related discussion from Bobby Silverstein on how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to the gig economy, see https://www.peatworks.org/content/gig-economy-bobby-silverstein-interview
May 31, 2019
@Deque CEO Preety Kumar outlines accessibility best practices for government agencies to implement before the new IDEA act regulations take effect in mid-June https://gcn.com/articles/2019/05/30/accessible-web-design.aspx
May 29, 2019
Investors representing more than $1 trillion in combined assets, led by NYS Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli and OR State Treasurer Tobias Read, recently released a joint statement calling on companies they invest in to create inclusive workplaces for people with disabilities https://disabilityin.org/national-investors-call-for-workplace-disabilit...
May 10, 2019
Check out our latest podcast featuring Amitai Bin-Nun of Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) as he discusses the factors that #AutonomousVehicles manufacturers need to consider from an inclusive design standpoint, and the potential this technology holds to bring new talent into the workforce. Workology #FutureOfWork #A11y #HR https://www.peatworks.org/futureofwork/podcast/2019/05/SAFE
May 9, 2019
Amazon is the first major company to provide full-time ASL interpreters to job candidates and employees - and is bringing in more deaf and hard-of-hearing people as a result https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahkim/2019/04/28/amazon-asl/#6832b274111b
Apr 30, 2019
Check out our recap of this year's CSUN Assistive Technology Conference: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Accessible Work https://www.peatworks.org/blog/2019/apr/csun-2019-artificial-intelligenc...