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Abledata
Provides objective information about assistive technology products and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources.
The Access Board
Contains information on Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act, as amended requiring that electronic and information technology developed, procured, maintained, or used by the federal government be accessible to people with disabilities. The Access Board is an independent federal agency.
ADA Accessibility Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities (ADAAG)
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.
ADA Homepage
Provides information for businesses including the Americans with Disabilities Act, business briefs, design standards, and regulations.
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.
ADA Watch
ADA Watch is a project of the National Coalition for Disability Rights (NCDR), a nonprofit alliance of hundreds of disability, civil rights, and social justice organizations united to defend and strengthen disability rights.
The American Congress of Community Supports and Employment Services (ACCESES)
ACCESES is a national, nonprofit organization of vocational rehabilitation service and community supports committed to maximizing employment opportunities and independent living for individuals with mental and physical disabilities.
The American Network of Community Options and Resources (ANCOR)
ANCOR is a nonprofit trade association representing private providers who provide support and services to people with disabilities.
America's Career InfoNet
A resource for making informed career decisions to support a demand-driven workforce investment system.
American Council of the Blind
The American Council of the Blind is the nation's leading membership organization of blind and visually impaired people. This service provides general information about the Council, including recent issues of thier monthly publication, The Braille Forum.
America's Job Bank
This is a good website for employers who are looking to post jobs to a larger audience and find workers locally, in Wisconsin and nationwide.
An employer’s guide to older workers
This report provides employers with practical advice culled from a number of sources on recruiting, retaining, and retraining older workers, arguing that business success will require employers to implement changes that encourage older persons to remain in the workforce.
Apple Computer, Inc.
Provides 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.
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.
Assistivetech.net
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.
Assistive Technology
This fact sheet defines Assistive Technology, explores different funding sources and offers helpful tips for the consumer to consider when choosing an assistive technology device.
Autism Society of Wisconsin, The Provides Awareness, Support, Education and Training. ASW is continuing to look forward to provide increased support and information to the autism community and Wisconsin employers.
A to Z
Deafblindness
For people who are interested in learning how people who are deaf or blind communicate with each other, and to our family and friends and to the hearing seeing world which we all live in.
Benefits Link
For people and companies involved in providing employer-sponsored employee benefit plans: compliance officers working for employers or for third-party administrators, consultants, lawyers, actuaries, accountants, investment managers, other service-providers, product vendors, policymakers, and all others in the industry.
Braille Enterprises
Helps bridge the gap between blind and visually-impaired customers and the service industry and provide all your printed materials in Braille so that your blind customers can receive the same level of service as those who are sighted.
Business Leadership Network (USBLN)
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.
Center for the Study and Advancement of Disability Policy (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
A national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products.
Civil Rights
Learn about your responsibility for compliance with laws related to harassment and unfavorable treatment in employment, housing and public accommodations.
Code of Practice on Managing Disability in the Workplace
Guides employers to adopt a positive strategy in managing disability-related issues in the workplace.
Communication Access Information Center (CART)
Provides information of use to people employing or in need of 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.
Compensation, Benefits, & Rewards
Provides the source for the latest trends and tools on workforce and HR management, recruitment, retention, employment law, and human resource products and services.
Cornucopia of Disability Information (CODI)
A community resource for consumers and professionals, providing disability information in a wide variety of areas. It consists of both an Internet Directory of Disability Information and a repository of electronic disability documents.
Cultivating the Next Generation of Qualified Workers
The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services' (OSERS) Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) works with OSERS' Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA) and with state education agencies to prepare students with disabilities for higher education, employment and independent living. By partnering with schools to offer work-based learning experiences for students with disabilities, your business can help create a pipeline of future employees who are knowledgeable and trained for jobs in your organization.
Dear Employer
Information regarding the benefits of hiring people with disabilities.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
CDC is the principal agency in the United States government for protecting the health and safety of all Americans and for providing essential human services, especially for those people who are least able to help themselves.
Determining Essential Job Functions
This webpage discusses about how to identify essential job functions, and describing the physical and mental performing elements, essential job functions worksheet, and resources and assistance.
Disabilities Online
This is a directory of disability information.
Disabilityinfo.gov
DisabilityInfo.gov is the federal government's one-stop web site for information of interest to people with disabilities, their families, employers, service providers and many others.
Disability Related
Language
The words and phrases that are preferred show respect for the dignity of people with disabilities. Some describe this as "people-first" language where the individual is recognized as a person first, then further defined in terms of their characteristic, disability, or functional limitation. This webpage discusses disability related language.
disABLEDperson, Inc.
disABLEDperson, Inc.'s mission is to help 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 have the desire to enhance diversity in the workplace. It helps employers to successfully recruit the best fit candidates, who have disabilities, for organizations .
Do’s and Don’ts for
Supervisors
Managers must confront their own perceptions of what it means to have a disability and the extent to which workers with disabilities can and should be an integral part of the work environment.
eMediaWire.com(PR Web™)
PR Web™ offers 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
This checklist is designed to assist you and your employees prepare an evacuation plan in case of an emergency.
Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI)
EBRI is the only national benefits research organization with a substantial information resource center that members can e-mail/call with detailed questions and get immediate and substantiated responses, with backup information including survey and study results.
Employer Tool Kit
This document consists of two guides intended for either employers or service providers involved in school to work partnerships for students with disabilities. “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.
Employer Training
A summary of the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) resources for training on the laws governing employers.
Employing
People with Disabilities
Shares experience of employers who have successfully employed people with
learning disabilities. The information and advice it contains comes entirely
from the experiences of 26 employers who were interviewed as part of the
project. The suggestions and proposals are based on the practical realities of employing people with learning disabilities.
Employment Tax Credits
Learn all you need to know about tax credit programs that can help reduce your Federal and State Tax Liability.
Equal Rights Division
Information about the types of public works projects covered by state prevailing wage laws, how prevailing wage rates are set and information on rates recently set for projects.
Family and Medical Leave
Understanding the employer's responsibilities to provide leave for employees for birth, adoption, serious illness or a family member or the employee's own serious illness.
Fidelity Bonding Program
Access free business insurance policies that protect 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.
Focus
Group Research
Making the case for hiring and retaining people with disabilities. The Employer Assistance and Recruiting Network (EARN) conducted focus group research in 13 major metropolitan areas. These focus groups, representing a range of industry sectors and sizes, sought answers from executive-level managers and human resources professionals to understand their concerns about disabilities in the workplace. Through the focus groups, these participants shared their most pressing workforce issues as well as their reactions to messages and facts about workers with disabilities.
Focus on Ability
Interviewing applicants with disabilities. The job interview plays a critical role in the hiring process, allowing them the opportunity to identify the individual who possesses the best mix of knowledge, skills and abilities for the position available. The information may assist employers in ensuring maximum benefit from an interview when the person being interviewed happens to have a disability.
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.
Friday Fundamentals
Audio Conferences are held at ETN locations in every county in Wisconsin and cover many of the same topics as the Labor Law clinics in workshops no more than 2 hours long.
General Considerations
General considerations about people with disabilities.
Getting Corporations Ready to Recruit Workers with Disabilities
Discusses the strategies used by Wells Fargo for the hiring, advancing, and retaining of people with disabilities in the workplace. The author asserts that with some planning and preparation, corporations can ultimately increase the diversity of the workplace, as well as the diversity of the customer-base. Ways to overcome barriers to the employment of people with disabilities, particularly the prejudice that results from stereotypes, are discussed.
Great Lakes ADA Center
Hosts a list of general resources for additional information about people with disabilities
Guidelines for Applications, Interviews, Exams and Hiring
Employment checklist for hiring people with disabilities: commonly asked questions and resources.
Hidden Disability
Presents information related to the training of employees with learning disabilities. According to the Americans with Disabilities Act, employees with learning disabilities do not have to disclose that they have a disability and cannot be asked directly by the employer.
Workplace learning and performance professionals should be prepared to judge an employee's learning style and make the necessary accommodations.
Hire Guide
A rapidly growing website containing hundreds of pages of information
related to Human Resources. The 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.
HR Management
Provides human resources management information including performance management, performance appraisals, employee performance reviews, and relocation.
IBM Accessibility Center
Provides steps and guidelines to follow that address the accessibility needs of users.
Assistive technologies include magnifiers, screen readers, closed captioning, keyboard enhancements, and highlighting software.
Job Accommodation Network (JAN)
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
Offers 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.
Labor Law Clinics
Offers educational seminars, which are open to the public and feature DWD staff explaining many of the laws and rules the agency administers.
Labor Standards
For child labor, minimum wage, overtime, notification of business closings and mass layoffs, unpaid wage claims, private employment agencies and work on state or municipal construction projects.
Labor, United States Department of, Office of Disability Employment Policy
The Office of Disability Employment Policy collaborates with employers and State and local agencies to increase awareness of the benefits of hiring people with disabilities, and to facilitate the use of effective strategies to expand access to training, education, employment supports, assistive technology, integrated employment, entrepreneurial development, and small-business opportunities.
Legal Insight
Provides human resources legal information including employment law, labor law, employment legislation, OSHA rules, disability, discrimination, and employee leave.
Managing Disability in the Workplace (pdf)
Contains information based on the principle underpinning international instruments and initiatives designed to promote the safe and healthy employment of all persons with disabilities.
Milt Wright & Associates, Inc.
A publishing, training and consulting firm focusing on job creation, job retention and employment resources. They offer innovative job development, job retention and business outreach resources and training. For employers, they specialize in the design and implementation of disability management return to work programs, workers compensation cost containment strategies, transitional employment, and organizational process improvement.
The Mobility Pages
Gives employees hints on how to deal with issues such as the lack of affordable, reliable, and available transportation
as it 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.
The National Center on Workforce and Disability (NCWD)
Provides training, technical assistance, policy analysis, and information to improve access for all in the workforce development system.
National Federation of the Blind (NFB)
The NFB of Wisconsin is the most positive force in the field of blindness in Wisconsin.
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
NIOSH is committed to a workplace where all people are respected as individuals and are valued for their contributions to accomplishing its mission. Their mission is to enhance the organization's ability to attract, recruit, hire, mentor, develop, retain, and serve a diverse population by fostering an inclusive environment that embraces, values and respects all individuals.
National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.)
The National Organization on Disability (N.O.D.) works with business leaders, corporations, associations, and schools to improve work opportunities for Americans with disabilities, who are employed at dramatically lower rates than the non-disabled. N.O.D. also helps employers explore disability as a workplace diversity issue, and disability-related marketing. This web site provides you with the latest in disability-related news, information and resources.
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.
Nine Best
Practices of Highly Effective SCSEP Projects
This is a study of nine best practice Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP) programs around the country that operated under the auspices of six national sponsors and one state agency. The projects were identified by their sponsors for their success in training; placement in unsubsidized, permanent employment; and in supporting the needs of the community.
Office of Disability Employment Policy (former President’s Committee)
Provides national leadership by developing and influencing disability-related employment policy and practice affecting the employment of people with disabilities.
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.
Opening Doors to All
Candidates
Tips for ensuring access for applicants with disabilities. Ensuring that all qualified individuals can participate in the process is key to achieving this goal. By examining their hiring procedures and implementing some simple steps, employers can widen their pool of potential talent and ensure that they do not miss out when the best person for the job happens to have a disability.
Policies and Regulations
Provides information about health care, laws and regulations, and policies and guideline that useful for employers to know.
Preventive Steps Can Curb Workplace Violence
Gives advice to employers on preventing workplace violence. Protection of employees with mental disability from illegal firing under the Americans with Disabilities Act; Necessity of assessment by a qualified mental health professional; Training of supervisors and managers to recognize early warning signs of a potentially violent employee.
Ready-Reference Guide for Illinois Businesses
Employer focused guide for employing people with disabilities.
Recruiting & Staffing
Offers information of an effective combinations of recruitment, retention, and ongoing retraining.
Recruitment and Retention Plan
This Recruitment and Retention Plan delineates strategy to recruit and hire a diverse and highly qualified workforce from sources external and internal to the government, as well as their commitment to grow and develop the dedicated employees already on-board.
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (RESNA)
Helping to improve the potential of people with disabilities to achieve their goals through the use of technology by promoting research, development, education, advocacy and provision of technology, and by supporting the people engaged in these activities.
Rehabilitation for Wisconsin, Inc. (RFW)
RFW is a Wisconsin Association of Community Rehabilitation Programs that provides pre-vocational, employment, and community living services for individuals with disabilities.
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.
SHRM Greater Madison Areas
Provides essential resources and opportunities for learning and sharing knowledge while encouraging mutual support of our members and to those in our communities.
Social Security Administration (SSA)
Official website of the Social Security Administration helps employers to learn about Social Security's work incentives program for people with disabilities.
Society for Human Resource Management
SHRM is the world's largest association devoted to human resource management,
serving the needs of HR professionals by providing the most essential and comprehensive resources available.
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.
Strategies for Addressing Barriers
This article describes a natural workplace support demonstration project conducted over a 15-month period that resulted in the direct placement or retention of people with severe disabilities in competitive employment.
Tech Connection
TECHConnection seeks to redefine human potential by making assistive technology devices a regular part of the lives of people with disabilities. They help you to 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.
Trainings
The Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center provides trainings with up-to-date information on the ADA and its implementation tailored to meet specific customer needs. In addition, the Center expanded its role to conduct outreach, technical assistance and trainings to encourage the incorporation of Accessible Information Technology in K-12 and post secondary school settings.
Unemployment Insurance
Information tells about unemployment insurance, laws, benefits, employer wage reporting, and
labor law clinics.
United States Department of Justice (DOJ)
A department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans.
U.S. Department of Justice
(Office of the Inspector General)
Provides information for businesses of all sizes about ADA standards for
accessible design, tax credits, and other documents to meet ADA
requirements.
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.
U.S. Department of Labor. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
OSHA is the main federal agency charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
EEOC enforces all of these laws. It also provides oversight and coordination of all federal equal employment opportunity regulations, practices, and policies.
Windmills Training
Program
A program for employers at no cost to help their staff develop an increased awareness of the role that attitudes play regarding the employment of persons with disabilities and other people of diversity.
Wisconsin Business Leadership Network (BLN)
BLN is a business led initiative helping employers identify, hire, and retain qualified workers with disabilities.
Wisconsin Council of Safety
Provides training, publications, and consultation services on safety related issues including workers compensation and return-to-work programming.
Wisconsin Council SHRM
The Wisconsin Council represents human resource professionals in the State of Wisconsin and is supported through the national Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). It provides a communication link between the chapters and national, and is a forum for the exchange of ideas and information concerning chapter administration and the HR profession. SHRM is divided into five regions across the country. The Wisconsin Council SHRM is part of North Central Region.
Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD)
Wisconsin’s Job Centers provide employment and training services for employers and job seekers. They also serve employers by providing assistance such as recruiting qualified job applicants, access to labor market information, and assistance with planning for workplace expansion or other changes.
Wisconsin Division of Vocational Rehabilitation (DVR)
DVR provides comprehensive employment, training, and placement services for individuals with disabilities. They are also an excellent source of disability related information and consultation.
Wisconsin.gov
Wisconsin.gov is an easy-to-search, free-access web site designed to give you a centralized place to find information from Wisconsin government resources.
Wisconsin Job Centers
Wisconsin Job Centers offer a wealth of information and services to employers and job seekers.
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’s WORKnet
A great site to 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.
Worker's Compensation
Provides information on specific requirements for worker's compensation and how to obtain worker's compensation insurance or become self-insured.
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.
Workplace Laws
During the last few years, employees have been exposed to many new laws, regulations, and acronyms. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) impact upon the workplace. These are different laws enacted at different times with different purposes, and are not totally uniform.
WorldatWork
World at Work is a not-for-profit professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in total rewards, compensation, benefits, and work-life,
with a focus on human resources disciplines associated with attracting, motivating and retaining employees.
