Accessibility is everyone’s job. From our premise techs to call centers to sales reps to managers and even our CEO. November gives us the opportunity to highlight World Usability Day.

The User Experience Professionals Association established the observance in 2005 to promote the values of usability, usability engineering, user-centered design, universal usability, and every user’s responsibility to ask for things that work better. 

Did you know AT&T has a team actively looking to improve user experiences? It is called Project Raindrops, and they want to hear from you. Project Raindrops is focused on eliminating, automating, or, at the very least, improving processes to reduce the amount of time management-level employees spend on administrative tasks. 

If you do just one thing this month, join Ability in supporting AAPD’s efforts to end subminimum wage pay for disabled workers. Despite decades of progress in disability employment protections and civil rights, it is still legal to pay people with disabilities less than minimum wage. Section 14(c) of the Fair Labor Standards Act has allowed employers to pay disabled workers subminimum wages for close to 90 years. According to recent data, disabled employees working under a 14(c) certificate earned $3.34 per hour on average, with many workers making even less than this.



The Department of Labor is currently reviewing the policy allowing this injustice and seeking community input. Please visit this website and sign a petition to support AAPD’s work to end the practice of paying disabled Americans subminimum wages: End Subminimum Wages for Disabled Workers!

• Ability’s Kindness Challenge is kicking off on November 6
• Ability’s *NEW* Parkinson’s Support Group is kicking off on November 7
• Ability’s Brittany King-Offord Leadership Award nomination window is open now through November, 24^th. Nominate any member of ours who has stepped up to lead an Ability project, event, regional or national board
• Ability’s Annual All Member Meeting will be held on November 30

Green Table, 4th Thursday of the month from 1:00PM-2pmCT

Grief & Trauma Support Call, 2nd Wednesday of the month from 12:00-1:00PM CT

Ann Marie Roger’s Mindful Pause, every Monday and Friday from 9:00-9:15AM CT

Vivek Kashyap’s Weekly Mindfulness Meeting, every Thursday from 2:00-3:00PM CT

Caregiver Support Call for Alzheimer’s & Dementia, 1st Wednesday of the month from 11:00AM-12:00PM CT

Neurodiversity Support Call, 4th Friday of the month from 1:00-2:00PM CT