Abledata
Provides objective information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources.
ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG)
This contains scoping and technical requirements for accessibility to buildings and facilities by individuals with disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990.
ADA-Checklist for Readily Achievable Barrier Removal
This checklist will help you identify accessibility problems and solutions in existing facilities in order to meet your obligations under the ADA. However, it does not attempt to illustrate all possible barriers or propose all possible barrier removal solutions.
The ADA: Your responsibilities as an employer
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Fact sheet covers the basic facts about which employers are covered, which employment activities are covered, and what the responsibilities of employers involve.
AgrAbilitiy of Wisconsin
Links to various websites related to agriculture and disability in Wisconsin state.
The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA)
ATA is the national network of community-based resource centers, developers, vendors, and associates dedicated to providing information and support services to children and adults with disabilities, and increasing their use of standard, assistive, and information technologies.
American Staffing Association (ASA)
ASA promotes the interests of the industry through legal and legislative advocacy, public relations, education, and the establishment of high standards of ethical conduct.
America's Career InfoNet
It is a resource for making informed career decisions to support a demand-driven workforce investment system.
America's Job Bank
This is a good website for employers who looking to post jobs to a larger audience and find workers locally, in Wisconsin and nationwide.
Apple Computer, Inc.
They provide the Mac OS X operating system which is by design, easy to use, but also includes a wide variety of features and technologies specifically designed to provide accessibility to users with disabilities.
AT&T Video Relay Service
AT&T offers Video Relay Service (VRS) for hearing impaired people living in the United States. It is an online relay services that allows users to sign rather than type their communications.
Assistivetech.net
They are a diverse resource for assistive technology (AT) and disability-related information. Their searchable database helps you target solutions, determine costs and find vendors of AT products for people with disabilities, family members, service providers, educators and employers.
BLIST: The Comprehensive Index of Blindness-related E-mailing Lists
Gives a remarkably complete look at online discussions, such as Employment-Blindness-Issues and BLINDJOB, where
employers can speak directly to blind, visually impaired and other disabled people who are interested in career management issues.
Braille Enterprises
Helps bridge the gap between blind and visually-impaired customers and the service industry and provide printed materials in Braille so that blind customers can receive the same level of service as those who are sighted.
Business Leadership Network (USBLN)
The BLN is a national program, led by employers, that engages the leadership and participation of companies throughout the United States to hire qualified job applicants with disabilities.
Career and Employment Guide for Job Seekers and Employees with Disabilities and Guide for Employers
Provides the support and assistance employers may need to enable Americans with disabilities who desire to earn a living the opportunity to participate as contributing members of the community and the workforce.
Career ONESTOP
CareerOneStop is an incorporated suite of national web site which sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor. It helps businesses, job seekers, students, and workforce professionals find employment and career resources.
The Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy (CSADP)
CSADP provides public education, leadership development and training, technical assistance and information dissemination, and conducts action-research and analysis of public policy issues affecting individuals with disabilities and their families.
The Center for Universal Design
The Center for Universal Design is a national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products.
Code of practice on managing disability in the workplace
Helps guide employers to adopt a positive strategy in managing disability-related issues in the workplace.
Communication Access Information Center (CART)
Information for employers on Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART), also known as realtime captioning. The site is sponsored by the National Court Reporters Foundation and supported by the National Court Reporters Association’s CART Task Force.
disABLEDperson, Inc.
Helps Americans with disabilities to seek gainful employment. Employers can post jobs as well as learn useful information, such as recruiting tips and legal issues.
disabilityWORK.com
For employers who desire to enhance diversity in the workplace. Helps employers to successfully recruit the best fit candidates for organizations who have disabilities.
Diversity.com
A source for recruiting job seekers from diverse ethnic cultures, life styles, life stages, creative persuasions, abilities, religious affiliations and gender. It provides best in class recruitment advertising and diversity branding.
Diversity Services
The only staffing service in the nation that makes accommodations necessary so as to include persons with disabilities. The mission is to help corporations, organizations; local and federal agencies eliminate preconceived notions concerning other people based solely on race, color, class, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation or disability.
eMediaWire.com (PR Web™)
PR Web™ offer free online press release distribution services to ensure every organization has access to the media, regardless of size. PR Web™ editors review thousands of press releases each week
Emergency Evacuation Procedure Plan
Checklist designed to assist employers and employees prepare an evacuation plan in case of an emergency.
Employer
Tool Kit
This document consists of two guides. “Tools for service providers” is intended to be linkages with employers. “Tools for employers” is intended to encourage employers to become involved in a range of school-to-work activities from participating in career days and tours and job shadowing opportunities, to offering internships and intensive work-based experiences.
Employing
People with Disabilities
A guide that shares experience of employers who have successfully employed people with learning disabilities. The information and advice contained
on this site comes entirely from the experiences of 26 employers who were interviewed as part of the project.
Suggestions and proposals are based on the practical realities of employing people with learning disabilities.
eSight Careers Network
Extensive coverage of job hunting, career management, and small business information and tools for people with disabilities and for employers who seek a more inclusive workplace.
Fidelity Bonding Program
Fidelity Bond is part of the Federal Bonding Program which can be issued to anyone who is not eligible for commercial bonding, at no cost to an employer or employee. It protects an employer in case of any loss of money or property due to employee dishonesty when hiring a job applicant who is an ex-offender or has some other risk factor in their personal background.
Fenestra, Inc.
A provider of premier HR technology solutions, employing products and services to manage selection and development of employees in multiple industries, including financial services, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, consumer goods, education, marketing, retail, and hospitality to provide a scalable, relatively low-cost method to select and develop the highest-quality employees.
Forward Wisconsin
Provides business cost comparisons, financial information and a variety of other business consulting services to prospective expanding businesses to boost the state’s image, to project the state's positive business climate and to attract industry and workers to Wisconsin.
Generator Group
A leading search firm offering a range of customized staffing solutions for top employers in need of efficient and effective recruiting resources.
Great Lakes ADA Center (DBTAC)
The DBTAC hosts a list of general resources for additional information about people with disabilities.
Hire Guide
A rapidly growing website containing hundreds of pages of information related to Human Resources. Their mission is to provide: links to other websites in the HR field; free web-based computer programs for HR professionals and students; and guides to HR related topics.
iApplicants
An Applicant Tracking System built to help small to medium sized companies create a faster, simpler, and more effective hiring process.
IBM Accessibility Center
Provides steps and guidelines to follow that address the accessibility needs of users.
IBM"s assistive technologies include magnifiers, screen readers, closed captioning, keyboard enhancements, and highlighting software.
JobAccess
A joint effort of Career Mosaic and Ability magazine, this website offers employers the opportunity to post job openings and search an online resume bank.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
JAN is a free consulting service designed to increase the employability of people with disabilities by providing individualized worksite accommodations solutions, providing technical assistance regarding the ADA and other disability related legislation, and educating callers about self-employment options.
Job Fairs
Local Job Centers offer Job Fairs for employers and job seekers in their areas. Job Fairs listed on this site are sponsored by or connected with a local Wisconsin Job Center.
JobNet
Contains current job opportunities that employers have listed with the Wisconsin Job Center system.
JobNet Business
A website for employers to create, edit and delete job orders in Wisconsin.
The John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development
A research and policy organization dedicated to applying the best research to address the core challenges of New Jersey’s and the nation’s workforce.
Managing
Disability in the Workplace
Contains information based on the principle underpinning international instruments and initiatives designed to promote the safe and healthy employment of all persons with disabilities.
The Mobility Pages
Gives employees hints on how to deal with issues such as the lack of affordable, reliable, and available transportation is one of the primary obstacles low income workers face.
Myths,
Misconceptions, & Realities of Disability
Quizzes: True and False.
National ADA Centers Technical Assistance Program
Provides training, information, and technical assistance on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to businesses, consumers, schools, and government agencies.
National Center on Workforce and Disability/Adult (NCWD)
NCWD provides training, technical assistance, policy analysis, and information to improve access for all in the workforce development system.
Office of Disability Employment Policy
Offers information, news and resources on creating inclusive workplaces. U.S. government site.
One Source Managed Solutions
Helps organizations implement a cost effective program that lowers cost-per-hire, minimize the impact of employee turnover, and positions a foundation to build an effective employee retention program.
The O*Net
Serves as the nation's primary source of occupational information, providing comprehensive information on key attributes and characteristics of workers and occupations. The O*NET database houses this data and O*NET provides easy access to that information.
Pathway to
Accessibility: Disability and the Physical Environment in Latin America and the Caribbean
Offers a comprehensive overview of the key pathways to accessibility of the physical environment: infrastructure, transportation, technology, and communications.
The Plotkin Group
A team of experienced professionals who understand how to use employee assessments. They provide the best employee assessment tools for screening and selecting the right employees for your organization.
Projecthired.org
A not-for-profit organization whose mission is to assisting people with disabilities to gain competitive employment, through partnerships with industry.
Recruitability
Job posting and search tools to help link employers with job seekers with disabilities.
Recruiter's Network
An invaluable resource in your search for qualified candidates. The Free Guide provides critical insights into motivating the most qualified candidates to respond to your job postings.
The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)
RSA oversees formula and discretionary grant programs that help individuals with physical or mental disabilities to obtain employment and live more independently through the provision of such supports as counseling, medical and psychological services, job training and other individualized services.
The Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. (RID)
RID is a national membership organization of professionals who provide sign language interpreting/transliterating services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing persons.
A Resource Guide for Recruiting, Hiring and Employing People with Disabilities
The purpose of this booklet is to help educate employers about the benefits of hiring people with disabilities and provide a basic guideline on how to start accessing this untapped labor tool.
Resume Miners
They provide recruiting services and staffing services. Gives all the benefits of outsourcing recruiting function and allows you to retain complete control of critical functions, as reducing the time spend on administration.
Robart A. Cameron & Associates
Improving hiring decisions, employee retention, training, and development with online employee assessments, employee evaluation and employee recognition solutions.
Spherion Recruiting & Staffing Solutions
Customized and measurable results by efficiently planning, acquiring and optimizing talent to provide integrated solutions that meet employers’ evolving needs and priorities.
Sprint Relay Video Service
Sprint offers Video Relay Service (VRS) for hearing impaired people living in the United States. It is an online relay services that allows users to sign rather than type their communications.
A
Summary of Remedies Available under State and Federal Law
This document should not be considered legal advice but contains general information including Fair Employment Remedies and Family and Medical Leave at Remedies.
Tech Connection
TECHConnection seeks to redefine human potential by making assistive technology devices a regular part of the lives of people with disabilities.
Helps provide easy access to the assistive technologies, related services, and information resources that enable people to achieve success, independence, productivity, and social interdependence according to their individual needs and interests.
Ticket to Work (Maximus)
The Ticket to Work and Self-Sufficiency Program is an
employment program for people with disabilities who are interested in going
to work.
U. S. Department of Commerce Recruitment and Retention Plan
This document embraces and supports the foundation laid in the Department’s human capital plan and puts forward recruitment and retention strategies to address the crosscutting workforce issues facing the Department and its bureaus.
The US Department of Labor
The Department of Labor fosters and promotes the welfare of the job seekers, wage earners, and retirees of the United States. It administers a variety of Federal labor laws including those that guarantee workers’ rights to safe and healthful working conditions; a minimum hourly wage and overtime pay; freedom from employment discrimination; unemployment insurance; and other income support.
Veterans Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Services - State Listings
VR&E's primary benefit program is vocational rehabilitation services for injured soldiers, sailors, airmen, and other veterans with disabilities for a seamless transition from military service to a successful rehabilitation and on to suitable employment after service to the Nation. The Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment service strives to exceed the service delivery expectations of veterans and their families.
Wisconsin’s Job Bank
Wisconsin's Job Bank is the biggest and busiest job market in cyberspace. Recruiters can post job listings in the nation's largest online labor exchange, create customized job orders, and search resumes automatically to find the right people, right now.
Wisconsin Job Center Directory
A list of all the local Wisconsin Job Centers, by county and by city.
Wisconsin Job Center.org
A fast, easy, no-fee way to access job orders, resumes, and other information about employment and training. Employers can search a large pool of job applicants locally, around Wisconsin, and nationwide.
Wisconsin New Hire Reporting
Provides new hire reporting information according to Wisconsin state law.
Wisconsin Seasonal Jobs
Lists hundreds of seasonal employment opportunities throughout the state. It is constantly being updated with new, current job openings.
Wisconsin's WORK
Net
Find occupational information for Wisconsin. It has everything from job postings, most job openings, wage comparison tools, business tools, youth tools, and many other things such as hot Wisconsin jobs.
Working Partner's - Job Access
By posting job opportunities, employers are able to not only exhibit an open door policy but also demonstrate their responsiveness to affirmative action by genuinely recruiting qualified persons with disabilities.
The Workforce Development Center
Offers employers comprehensive services to meet all hiring needs, as well as provide support to existing business and industry leaders in hopes of improving profitability and maintaining a quality workforce.
Work Site Employment Support for people with disabilities
Social Security Administration site on programs that help people with disabilities find gainful work, including PASS and Ticket to Work.
The World Institute on Disability (WID)
WID is a nonprofit research, public policy and advocacy center dedicated to promoting the civil rights and full societal inclusion of people with disabilities. WID's work focuses on four areas: employment and economic development; accessible health care and Personal Assistance Services; inclusive technology design; and international disability and development.
