{"id":1436,"date":"2021-05-03T08:17:39","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T21:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2022-04-10T09:05:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:05:46","slug":"over-one-billion-people-live-with-a-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/?p=1436","title":{"rendered":"Over one billion people live with a disability!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/noncommunicable-diseases\/sensory-functions-disability-and-rehabilitation\/world-report-on-disability\">World Health Organization<\/a>, around 15% of people in the world have some form of disability. Efforts to improve access to technology directly affect over 1 billion people, and by extension, touch the lives of billions. Microsoft outlines three priorities for its initiative:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spurring the development of more accessible technology across our industry and the economy.<\/li><li>Using this technology to create opportunities for more people with disabilities to enter the workforce.<\/li><li>Building a workplace that is more inclusive for people with disabilities.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft-accessibility-five-year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.windowscentral.com\/microsoft-accessibility-five-year<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the&nbsp;World Health Organization, around 15% of people in the world have some form of disability. Efforts to improve access to technology directly affect over 1 billion people, and by extension, touch the lives of billions. Microsoft outlines three priorities for its initiative: Spurring the development of more accessible technology across our industry and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wellbeing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleufair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}