You Can Alt Text Too

While techies understand alt text as the HTML attribute used in HTML and XHTML to provide a vehicle to render an element that cannot be rendered, alt text is becoming

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Workers bullying a colleague at office

Mental Health Disability Disclosure at Work: A Candid Discussion of Why We Don’t Disclose Part 4

As we continue our discussion of why employees are reluctant to disclose their mental health disability in the workplace, I would be remiss if I did not touch on one

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Joyce Bender posing at the FDR Memorial

REMEMBERING PRESIDENT FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT (FDR)

Last week, I traveled to DC to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the FDR Memorial. Most people don’t realize how big of a deal it is that the memorial now

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Book Covers

Great Disability Community Reads

Disability civil rights is rarely taught in schools, even colleges. This week, we are sharing some suggested reading for celebrating the lives and talents from this community. Happy reading! No

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Mental Health Disability Disclosure at Work: A Candid Discussion of Why We Don’t Disclose Part 3

As we continue the discussion of why employees living with mental health disabilities aren’t comfortable disclosing their disability, I want to focus on understanding that mental health really is a

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Volunteers

Support for Ukrainians with Disabilities

As a proud board member of the World Institute on Disability (WID), I strongly urge you to support the efforts of the Global Alliance for Disaster Resource Acceleration (GADRA) in

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5 Impactful Actions that Honor Autism Awareness Month

The Autistic Community defines Autism from a perspective of neurodiversity. Like the Deaf Community believes that Deafness is not something that needs cured, the Autistic Community believes that Autism is

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Something Great and Life Changing Will Happen

This week we wanted to take a moment to share an interview with an employee we are so proud of, Christopher, or as we know him, CJ. CJ graduated with

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Maintaining Employment when Experiencing Long-COVID

It is estimated that millions of people will be joining the disability community due to experiencing PASC (Post-Acute Sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection), more widely known as post-COVID or long COVID.

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The Forgotten Consumer: People with Disabilities

We talk regularly about people with disabilities as an untapped labor pool, representing more than 10 million people in the United States, but people with disabilities also represent the third

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