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Hiring managers: How to make your UX team truly inclusive in 2021.
Benefits of inclusive hiring for both your team and business.
Imagine for a moment, that you spend your life constantly adapting everything from the way you brush your teeth to the way you socialize, work, and play. It takes a lot of time, energy, and planning to accomplish tasks that other people can do without a second thought. Having a disability makes you approach problems differently. It makes you think more creatively. It amplifies your other senses and skills to compensate for the ones that are not the same as your colleagues. You’re always thinking with accessibility in mind because you depend on accessibility to survive.
This is just the tip of a massive iceberg of skills disabled designers possess. Skills that you can’t learn from a 1-hour webinar — because they’re rooted in life experience.
Dear Leadership: You have the power to infuse accessibility into your design team with your next new hire.
Inclusive hiring can boost your team when it is part of a greater strategy to make accessibility a priority in your…
