Disability:IN North Carolina is planning a unique celebration for the 32nd Anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. This year, DI-NC invited individuals with disabilities working in competitive jobs in North Carolina, to submit a short video for inclusion in this virtual celebration. Everybody Works in NC “From Murphy to Manteo” will include professionals, in both traditional and non-traditional businesses, with all types of disabilities. The event will also feature the musical talents of several North Carolinians with disabilities. The Premier Celebration will take place on Tuesday, July 26 from 11am to noon EDT. The event will be offered at no cost, but registration is required. Following the premier, the video celebration will be posted at www.di-nc.org for ALL to enjoy!! Register Here
In case you missed it you can view the webinar video here! This year’s theme for 2022 was Mindfulness and Exercise Are for Every Body!
In case you missed it you can view the webinar video here! This year’s conference theme, “Unlocking Your Inclusivity” focused on strategies to enhance and expand disability employment and inclusion practices among businesses and employers across North Carolina.
In case you missed it you can view the webinar video here! A round table discussion with small, medium and large employers will address how employment providers can build and sustain stronger collaborative networks with hiring managers.
Disability:IN North Carolina is proud to host a screening of the award-winning documentary film, “Lives Worth Living” (directed by Eric Neudel and produced by Alison Gilkey) on July 26, 2021, from 2:30 to 5:30pm at the Regal Birkdale 16 at 16950 Birkdale Commons Pkwy in Huntersville, NC, 28078. Lives Worth Living is a historical documentary about the Disability Rights Movement and a biography about one man’s struggle to achieve disability equality and inclusion.
The ADA Celebration is FREE however registration is required to reserve your seat.
REGISTER HERE
MetLife and DiversAbilities are proud to host/sponsor the 2021 Disability:IN North Carolina Wellness@Work Virtual Conference.
When: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 from 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT
Where: This is an online event.
Join us to hear Dr. Nicole French, Clinical Director for Veterans Bridge Home, Community Behavioral Health Consultant and Uniformed Army Reserve Psychologist present findings on resilience and healing in times of crisis. Following her keynote, Dr. French will lead a discussion with a panel of diverse individuals willing to share how their life experiences from a military and civilian perspective, inform their approach to life challenges and the wins they have found along the way.
The 2021 Wellness@Work event is sponsored by MetLife and the Cary area DiversAbilities Employee Resource Group (ERG).
2020 is a year like no other, as businesses, government agencies and all Americans continue to show resiliency amid these unprecedented times. Disability:IN North Carolina is grateful to our corporate sponsor, Trane Technologies and the VisAbility Employee Resource Group for hosting our virtual event. Join us on October 1, 2020 to celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and discover your #DisabilityAdvantage.
2020 Fall Conference Highlights
CommunAbility @ UNC-Charlotte : Business Mentors for University Students with Disabilities
Our Ability Careers Portal | New Features
Supplier Diversity Strategies
The North Carolina Employment Collaborative and Regional Business Advisory Councils
Please Register: https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07eha9cx6y2f1d4366&oseq=&c=&ch=
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website utilizes various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We utilize an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website’s UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website utilizes an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website’s HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you’ve found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we’ll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website’s operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, comprehend, and enjoy the website’s functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here’s how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: we run a background process that learns the website’s components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website’s images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website’s HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allow the focus drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anybody to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to