International Day of Persons With Disability – Top Five Business Resources
The International Day of Persons with Disabilities is celebrated on 3 December each year
The day is promoted across the world by the United Nations to encourage better understanding of disability issues. It provides an occasion to celebrate and acknowledge the experience and capabilities of people with disabilities, and focus on measures to support greater integration and equality for all.
To celebrate the day, we highlight our top five resources for businesses to help you:
- find support for starting a business if you are a person with disability
- develop products and services that facilitate employment of disabled people
- adopt good practice and strengthen technical expertise on disability issues
Top five resources
Starting a business: advice for disabled people
Information and advice about starting a business for disabled people
Support if you employ someone who is disabled
Help and advice when considering employing disabled people in Northern Ireland
Access and facilities for disabled people
Information on what changes you can make to ensure your business is accessible to disabled people
Prevent discrimination and value diversity
Understand and keep on the right side of the laws that ban unfair treatment of staff
Best practice in web design
The main design considerations to take into account in order to build effective and accessible websites
Source: nibusinessinfo.co.uk
