FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy announced this year’s National Disability Employment Awareness Month theme is “Access to Jobs for All.” The ...

Marci Straughter, a 44-year-old woman with hydrocephaly and epilepsy, uses a GPS device called AngelSense to live more independently. AngelSense provides a sense of safety and security, allowing ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...

Elaine Short is a co-PI of AccessComputing, an organization working to increase the representation of people with disabilities in computing careers, and the co-Chair of AccessSIGCHI, a disability ...

Cassie Mitchell and Robert Quinn are examining the factors that affect the inclusion of people with disabilities in STEM fields, aiming to understand the challenges they face with the ultimate goal of ...

Despite years of advocacy and mandates, many disabled college students report that classroom technology fails to accommodate their needs, according to a new report from the National Disability Center ...

On July 26, 1990, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed into law. On the recent 34th anniversary of the ADA, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) General Counsel Karla ...

In recent years, the online world has witnessed a peculiar trend that combines two seemingly unrelated themes: artificial intelligence (AI) and fake disabilities. While both AI and disability-related ...

Online communities are critical for young people with disabilities. Many disabled people rely on online spaces to get information on diagnoses and healthcare, navigate career options, and even find ...

This sentence is illegible to some people, appearing as nothing more than a smudge on a screen. At least, that’s what it looks like to Phill Kirk, born with Laurence-Moon-Bardet-Biedl syndrome — a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Accessibility features in mainstream technology are not as reliable as those in dedicated assistive devices.

Business owners with disabilities encounter special difficulties while starting and expanding their businesses. These ...