Making employment work for people with disabilities

A phone can flash instead of ring.

Glasses can turn speech into captions.

A keyboard can work with foot pedals, and a mouse can be controlled by subtle lip movements and breathing.

These tools look familiar at first, but they are built for workers many offices were not designed to accommodate.

Together, they show a changing approach to disability employment, one that focuses less on asking people with disabilities to adjust to workplaces built without them and more on redesigning work so they ca ...