AT in the Workplace Information
20 February 2020
TweetThis is a list of helpful articles, guides, videos and organisations aimed at those who use or are responsible for assistive technology in the workplace
Introduction to assistive technology and the workplace
The power of AT in work: video with Chris Cusack of Disability Horizons
Accessible technology versus assistive technology in the workplace: video from a US perspective
Top five tips on job hunting with a disability: video
How to get one million more people into work: interview by Martin Sibley
Reasonable adjustments at work
What the law says on reasonable adjustments
Equalities Act 2010: guidance for employers
Advice to employers from Remploy
Examples of reasonable adjustments from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
Personnel Today’s reasonable adjustments in recruitment
AbilityNet’s advice to employees
Citizens Advice Information for employees: asking your employer for changes to help you if you’re disabled
Reasonable adjustments for people with hearing loss from Action on Hearing Loss
Case studies
Employable Me, highly rated BBC Two series that features interviews with disabled people looking for work
Using AT for computer work: Singapore government video
How a blind person uses AT at work: video by Alex Man of RSBC charity
Disability success in three minutes: series of videos of how people use AT at work from Business Disability Forum.
Support programmes
Disability Confident scheme to support organisations employing disabled people.
How to become Disability Confident by Iansyst
Professional coaching for blind and partially sighted people facing redundancy from Thomas Pocklington Trust
Access to Work grant scheme
What is Access to Work: guide from Sight and Sound
Official advice for employees from the Department for Work and Pensions
Find Your Way is a guide to the Access to Work process published by social enterprise Diversity & Ability
Disabled workers tell the Codpast of their experiences of Access to Work
Reports and official documents
Report of assistive technology enquiry by the Work and Pensions Committee
Social care and assistive technology: report from HfT
Supporting Disabled People into Work a report from the National Audit Office about the Department for Work & Pensions’ support to help disabled people overcome barriers to work
Switching Focus: whose responsibility to improve disabled people’s employment and pay? A report by Liz Sayce
Video of the launch of Switching Focus with Liz Sayce, Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lord Holmes
Future developments
The areas of greatest promise for assistive technology in the workplace: by Neil Milliken of Atos
Useful organisations
AbilityNet: charity supporting disabled tech users and promoting the use of AT
All-Party Parliamentary Group for Assistive Technology: organises events and carries out research for parliamentarians
British Assistive Technology Association: association for users and suppliers of AT
British Association for Supported Employment: national trade association for the supported employment sector
British Computer Society: professional organisation with accessibility specialist group
Business Disability Forum: membership organisation for those working with disabled employees
Department for Work and Pensions: government department responsible for disability benefits and programmes
Disability Rights UK: lobby group run by disabled people
Diversity & Ability is a social enterprise supporting neurodiverse and disabled employees with assistive tech training, workplace coaching and mental health mentoring
Equality and Human Rights Commission: UK’s Great Britain’s national equality body
International Association of Accessibility Professionals: membership organization for responsible for accessibility
Jobcentre Plus: government employment agency
Remploy: provider of employment and skills support for disabled people
RNIB: charity for blind people