Yahoo, Tech Partners Seek Engineers With Accessibility Experience
Yahoo will include language in job postings indicating the company prefers engineering candidates with accessibility experience, Accessible Media Director Larry Goldberg wrote in a blog post Thursday. A number of Yahoo’s tech industry partners also will include that preference in…
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job postings, it said. “This is a huge step toward ensuring that products across the industry are designed with every individual in mind,” Goldberg said. “While making all tech products accessible is not mandated by law, Yahoo and our peers believe that it is simply the right thing to do,” he said. “We want to make sure that our users have equal access to the services we provide, whether or not they’re disabled.”