Giving Compass' Take:

• B The Change profiles businesses that are creating more access to their online tools for everyone, including people with disabilities. 

•  How will producing more accessibility for a diverse range of people help businesses thrive? 

• Read about how some states are helping people with disabilities gain access to employment opportunities. 

Does your business embrace all potential clients and employees? Or does it serve some of them better than others?

Hundreds of Certified B Corps asked those questions and then stepped up to the 2018 Inclusive Economy Challenge, committing to create more balance and opportunities for people of all backgrounds and experiences.

This week, B the Change begins its look at Interdependence by examining how businesses can ensure their spaces and tools — such as websites — are accessible to everyone, including people with disabilities.

Ensuring Everyone Can Use the World Wide Web: Tim Frick of Mightybytes recommends that clients adopt the World Wide Web Consortium’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as quickly as possible. These guidelines provide the clearest path toward making websites accessible to people with disabilities. This means making improvements to ensure websites are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust for all online users.

Removing Barriers in the Built Environment: Improvements to the accessibility of sites and offices would allow people with disabilities to work more hours. So what are the tangible improvements businesses can make? Consider the experience from a variety of viewpoints — not just someone in a wheelchair, but a person pushing a double stroller, a person with a guide dog, a person with hearing loss and so on. This holistic approach is what creates real and meaningful access for all users no matter their physical abilities.

Motivating Through Mission and Money: Corporate culture, employee empowerment and workplace wellness are hot topics in business these days. Yet many people — particularly women and minorities — might argue that the shift to less-toxic workplaces isn’t happening fast enough.

Read the full article about creating accessibility at B The Change