The typical prospective employee will be, in most cases, fully qualified and ready to go to work for that employee who has just rewarded him or her with a job offer. The employer making that job offer should also be aware that he has available to him a host of totally free job accommodation and employer supports on a job-oriented and customized basis.

The government’s first detailed look at disabled workers’ employment shows they are far more likely than the overall work force to be older, working part-time or jobless.

Maureen Quigley-Hogan is the next generation of call center worker. Wearing pink slippers and sitting at her desk in her home office in Virginia, she takes a call from a woman in New Jersey who has a question about her credit card bill. Quigley-Hogan was unemployed for 10 years because she couldn’t hold down a traditional job, she says. She has rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, a disease that causes severe fatigue.

Unable to use his hands because of a childhood bout with polio, Paul K. Longmore wrote his first book by punching a keyboard with a pen he held in his mouth. It took him 10 years, and when he was done, he burned a copy in front of the Federal Building downtown.

Born with spinal muscular atrophy, East Middle School teacher Tammie Groth has never taken a step in her life.

Twenty years ago President George H.W. Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act into law, ensuring equal employment opportunities and access to public transportation. But how far have we really come? Two advocates discuss the challenges disabled Americans still face.

For years, a 33-year-old Lakewood man has had the door slammed in his face from potential employers. Living with cerebral palsy, it hasn’t been easy for him to get a job. But the training he received from Tacoma Goodwill has now earned him a job at Sea-Tac Airport – and lots of praise from the community.

Almost every company has a website these days. We buy, sell, promote, show videos, convey information, and do just about everything electronically that’s historically been done only in brick and mortar stores, offices and plants. It’s easy to presume that many of the laws and requirements that businesses work with daily in the physical world can be overlooked in the virtual business world, but that’s not always the case, according to the Department of Justice.