Well, the short answer is: Yes! Absolutely. Without a doubt Every single business in every single sector needs to be inclusive of disabled people: Disabled people as customers, disabled people as employees, disabled people as suppliers, disabled people as partners. The list goes on and on. By now, if you have read more than one of Celebrating Disability’s blogs, you… Continue Reading Does Your Business Really Need to be Accessible?
Not Another Wheelchair User!
The Situation As a wheelchair user and a non-driver, I rely heavily on the train service to maintain relative independence. I consciously chose to live in an area that was not only on a train line but central to stations that would connect me to a large part of the country. Over the years, I have found that the service… Continue Reading Not Another Wheelchair User!
The Advantages of Using a Disability Mediator
There are many advantages in using a disability mediator to help you resolve conflict. This can arise in family, community or in the working environment and it is particularly beneficial if you feel too intimidated to speak out and make your voice heard. Where the family conflict is about separation, divorce, finances or arrangements for children you would need to… Continue Reading The Advantages of Using a Disability Mediator
Disability Equality – The Overlooked Essential for Any Business
It costs to overlook disability Along with the other supplier processes that you need such as HR, Business Development and Sales, Disability Equality is an essential. A lot of people think that disability equality and inclusion is “a nice to have but not an imperative”. I’m going to tell you why this statement is wrong. Human Resources The HR process is… Continue Reading Disability Equality – The Overlooked Essential for Any Business
Communication in the workplace for disabled people
Disabled employees do not want to be treated ‘differently’ to others. However, if other members of the team do not understand how best to communicate or an employee with a disability feels inhibited in communicating his or her needs, problems can arise. There are several ways in which an employee with a disability can be supported to provide a solution.… Continue Reading Communication in the workplace for disabled people
Accessible toilets – getting it right for your customers
Accessible toilets are not only about extra space For many of us who are disabled, the availability and accessibility of public toilets present a daily barrier. You will have heard about the ever growing popularity of Changing Places: a Changing Place is an evolution of an accessible toilet. A place where there are facilities within to support somebody who needs… Continue Reading Accessible toilets – getting it right for your customers
Celebrating Disability does…. Guest Blogs
Blogs for others Now and again, people have asked me to write guest blogs and case studies for their websites. I thought that it might be a nice idea to list them here. Inspiring Enterprise Inspiring Enterprise helped me to set up my business and to get it off the ground. They asked if I could be their first case study: Esi… Continue Reading Celebrating Disability does…. Guest Blogs
The Value of Inclusion
My journey to equality Over the years, my personal opinions of disability have changed and developed as I, along with my experiences have done the same. As a teenager, I believed and adhered to the medical model of disability; believing that disability was the problem of mine and mine alone. As a result, I had to be grateful when the… Continue Reading The Value of Inclusion
Great Talk TED. A Collection of Esi’s Favourite TED Talks
5 talks sharing 1 theme: Disability. Can disability positively impact business and society? Each talk is between 10 and 20 minutes in length so you may like to split them up. One a day should get you through the week. Michele L. Sullivan Asking for help is a strength not a weakness. The power in asking for help from strangers. Maysoon Zayid I’ve… Continue Reading Great Talk TED. A Collection of Esi’s Favourite TED Talks
The Thought That Businesses Dare Not Speak
Background I received an email the other day from a person I met at an exhibition. We had been talking about the importance of web accessibility and tone of voice used to attract disabled customers to a website and fundamentally, to a business. This person was interested in commissioning services of Celebrating Disability to advise on the overall accessibility and… Continue Reading The Thought That Businesses Dare Not Speak