Disabilities


Disability Discrimination

Many individuals fortunate enough to be healthy in mind and body--and to be employed--lament the difficulties a workplace can impose. But for those with p...  Read story

What You Don't Know Might Help You

How People of All Abilities Can Strengthen Your Workplace  Read story

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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Disabled Customers

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Preparing for the Americans with Disabilities Act

Staying in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Read story

ADA Hiring Incentives

Tax incentives for hiring the disabled.  Read story

Getting Ready for the ADA

Two charts on the effects of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Read story

Tapping Workers with Disabilities

Tips on incorporating disabled employees into the workplace.  Read story

Hiring Employees With Disabilities

Three in four firms have no ADA workers. Rookie employers should consider these guidelines.  Read story

The Disability Advantage

Even as the number of workers with disabilities grows because of factors like the Iraq war, fewer of them are finding jobs. Here's one employer that bucks th...  Read story

Anna Bradley Picks a Fight

She was broke, alone, and physically devastated--and then she picked up on a little-remarked federal requirement called Section 508. With that, Anna Bradley ...  Read story

Ready, Willing, and Able

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Disabled Workers: The Unexpected Advantage

One company's story of the positive results they've enjoyed because they hired disabled persons, and how to do the same.  Read story

Using Technology to Accommodate Workers

Technology has been a boon to many workers, but it is especially valuable to people with disabilities,allowing them to be a more productive part of the wo...  Read story

A Father's Cause Aids Disabled Entrepreneurs

One Florida man's efforts to establish a business network for persons with disabilities is expanding to a national level.  Read story

The Faces of Criterion 508

Last summer, the employees of this radically decentralized company gathered for the first time. They met one another, and their boss, and talked about what t...  Read story

Listen to Your Market

Paragraph describing a telecommunications system enabling hearing- and speech-impaired people to use the phone.  Read story

How to Comply with the ADA

The Americans with Disabilities Act now applies to companies with only 15 or more employees.  Read story

Entrepreneurs More Likely to be Dyslexic

New research finds that dyslexics are better at problem solving, communications and other business skills.  Read story

Disability Diskette

Information on the Americans with Disabilities Act available on floppy disks.  Read story

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) was established to enforce provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VII forbids d...  Read story

Setting Up an AIDS Policy

The best time to write a company policy for employees with AIDS is before someone comes forward with the news that he or she is HIV-positive. After manage...  Read story

The Anti-Hallmark

In the multibillion-dollar greeting card business, Smart Alex has carved a niche by boldly going where no big company has gone before. Founder Jay Blumenfeld...  Read story

Stifled Growth

The myth of the 25th employee Frayda Levin hates federal regulations, from controls on age discrimination to rules on how to treat...  Read story

Braille Sign Translation

Some suggestions on helping your office to read and output braille documents.  Read story

Mail

The Good, the Bad, the Underfunded Robb Mandelbaum's feature about the Small Business Administration was the most balanced article I have read...  Read story

The Inc. Network: Reader Responses

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

Network: May 1992

Network reader-to-reader advice.  Read story

There's No Office Like Home

A look at how four entrepreneurs designed unique home offices to meet their specific needs, personal tastes, styles of work and physical limitations.  Read story

Hot Tip: ADA Scope Limited

Is the Americans with Disabilities Act driving you crazy? Take heart. Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions have considerably narrowed the ADA's coverage, s...  Read story

Workplace Violence: Defusing Dangerous Employees

A lawyer presents guidelines to balance federal requirements with employee protection to avoid lawsuits.  Read story

Ledbetter Law Will Increase Suits

Bill extends the period for workers to sue former employers for pay discrimination.  Read story

TV to Go

Wireless, portable cable TV for home and on the road.  Read story

PCs for Blind Users

Inexpensive software programs enable blind workers to manipulate data.  Read story

Businesses Win Times Square Billboard Ads

A South Carolina-based center for children with disabilities and a Montana-based seller of environmentally-friendly building products were among the small...  Read story

Disability's Deep Costs

The soaring number of workers on permanent disability threatens to drive up payroll taxes.  Read story

Lessons From the Heart

Feedback on FlavorX; an antiheroic leader buys bonbons; a reader rips into "Fire Your HR Department".  Read story

Welcome! No, Not You

American business moves fitfully toward website accessibility for the disabled.  Read story

Contributors

For our 30th-anniversary issue, we talked to Inc.'s three longest-tenured employees, as well as two of our newest hires.  Read story

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