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		<title>Assistive tech can close disability employment gap and end UK’s ‘productivity deadlock’, claims parliamentary committee</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2018 20:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report from the Work and Pensions Committee (WPC) claims that the Government – and particularly the Department of Work and Pensions, DWP – must lead by example and focus on assistive technology (AT) to boost both disability employment rates and the UK economy. Other recommendations in the report include widening the scope of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Government asks the experts for guidance in assistive technology inquiry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2018 22:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accessibility professionals and assistive technology users have given the UK Government recommendations in an inquiry organised by the government’s Work and Pensions Select Committee. The inquiry looked at how technology can help improve employment rates among those with disabilities, as part of the government’s response to a report on the disability employment gap. During the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Procurement is key for accessible ICT in the workplace, claims new guide</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 19:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A detailed online resource to help employers purchase effective accessible technology through their procurement processes has been released. The guide, called ‘Buy IT!’, has been produced by the US-based Partnership on Employment &#38; Accessible Technology (PEAT). The introduction to Buy IT! states that a successful accessible ICT purchasing strategy means: “doing vendor research, specifying your [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Employers ‘Need Support To Make Job Applications Accessible’</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jun 2013 15:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employers need more support to make their digital job application processes accessible to people with disabilities, according to a new report from disability employment services charity Shaw Trust. The report, ‘Making work a real choice’, examines the government’s disability employment programme Work Choice through the experiences of more than 400 people – a mix of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Entrepreneurship: Do People With Chronic Conditions Make Great Entrepreneurs?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Julie Howell Consider this: does having a long-term illness have any advantages? I’ve been living with multiple sclerosis since age 19. Until recently, I worked for other people, evangelising about the many benefits of web accessibility. Following redundancy in 2010, I found myself at another of life’s crossroads. Should I find another job, or [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>ICT Data Gap ‘Hindering Disabled Business Owners’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lack of reliable data about the use of ICT by people with disabilities is making it harder for disabled entrepreneurs to succeed, delegates heard at a recent debate hosted by the Information Technologists’ Company, a livery company of the City of London. The debate was on the motion: “This House believes that it is [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology and disabled entrepreneurship &#8211; Open for Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tristan Parker. Few businesses in the modern world do not make use of digital technology. But how does this affect the half a million disabled people running their own businesses in the UK? This was the question posed earlier this month by the Information Technologists’ Company (ITC) as they debated the motion: “This House [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing IT Differently: The Road To Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katherine Ledger. A practical guide to help people overcome barriers to using IT and live an independent life, inexpensively, has been published by the Royal Association for Disability Rights (RADAR), the UK’s leading pan-disability organisation. ‘Doing IT Differently: Enabling everyone to use computer and information technology’ is sponsored by the Department for Business, Enterprise [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey Uncovers “Depressing Picture” For Employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A low level of accessibility found in internal ICT systems for staff is creating a “depressing picture for employment of people with disabilities”, according to a new survey carried out in conjunction with E-Access Bulletin. The research, conducted by Bloor Research with E-Access Bulletin and Ability Magazine, found private sector organisations have more accessible internal [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Research &#8211; Accessibility: ‘Just The Right Thing To Do’</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tristan Parker]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by Peter Abrahams. In the past year or two it has been possible to detect heightened awareness of the need for accessibility of ICT products and services. This has partly been brought about by court cases such as that filed against Target.com in the US, where the National Federation of the Blind claimed that [&#8230;]]]></description>
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