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Enhancing Workplace Accessibility Through Cloud Technology: Impacts on Employment for People with Disabilities

In this interactive session, Clayton Lewis from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research explores how cloud computing can revolutionize accessibility in the workplace. The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure initiative aims to deliver tailored information and services for individuals with disabilities. Participants will discuss the potential of this technology to facilitate job transitions and enhance workplace accommodations. Key updates from ongoing projects like Cloud4All and Prosperity4All will also be shared, focusing on consumer-driven development and the establishment of a robust assistive technology market.

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Enhancing Workplace Accessibility Through Cloud Technology: Impacts on Employment for People with Disabilities

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  1. Follow-up Session:Cloud-based Accessibility; Implications for the Workplace and Employment Clayton Lewis Consultant, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, US Department of Education

  2. The Original Session, NEC 2012 The Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure initiative will use cloud computing to make it much easier for people with disabilities to get information and services delivered to them in a manner that automatically matches their individual capabilities, needs, and preferences. In this interactive session, the audience will discuss how this technology can be shaped to best address workplace accommodations and other employment related needs. For example, how can this technology make it easier for people to change jobs, without worrying about negotiating and arranging needed accommodations? More generally, what considerations regarding the workplace and employment should the people who are developing this technology be aware of?

  3. Refresher

  4. Update European/Canadian Cloud4All project continues • 19 diverse autopersonalization prototypes are in active development • they range from Internet Explorer and Window to TextHelp applications to mobile platform support NIDRR funded contract team is studying aids to creating appropriate preferences

  5. Update (cont.) New European/Canadian Prosperity4All project starting Create a vibrant, profitable, assistive-technology market Decrease costs and expertise required of mainstream companies Involve consumer and consumer expertise in product development

  6. Update (cont.) Key goal of Prosperity4All: two-sided market supported by multi-sided infrastructure • Move from push market (developers guess needs and push out products) to pull market (consumers express needs and demands; developers respond) Prosperity4All/GPII infrastructure informs developers about consumer needs, and consumers about developer offerings

  7. Discussion

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