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Accessibility requires a commitment from the entire organization to facilitate the needs of employees with disabilities. Here are several ways your HR team can improve accessibility in the workplace.

Review HR policies and documents.

Enhance current HR processes to ensure they optimize HR policies and are inclusive for all individuals, regardless of disabilities. 

Go beyond compliance.

HR can facilitate a more accessible workplace by normalizing conversations around disabilities. Efforts should be made beyond general compliance, as HR’s ultimate responsibility is to make sure that inclusivity and accessibility is top of mind for everyone.

Create a support group.

Employee resource groups give employees a voice in the workplace. They can help inform HR of items that need change to become more accessible.

Practice intersectionality.

Intersectional design is a model of acknowledging individual differences that takes individual identities, circumstances, behaviors and environments into account. By surveying the workforce and understanding employee needs, HR can offer more flexible and individualized options.

Create leadership pathways.

Design future work flows today that help plan for supporting employees as they move into future organizational leadership roles.

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