{"id":76603,"date":"2021-09-07T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=76603"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:19:39","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T19:19:39","slug":"more-companies-are-looking-to-hire-accessibility-specialists-alcantara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/09\/07\/more-companies-are-looking-to-hire-accessibility-specialists-alcantara\/","title":{"rendered":"More Companies Are Looking to Hire Accessibility Specialists [Alc\u00e1ntara]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/more-companies-are-looking-to-hire-accessibility-specialists-11630501200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>More Companies Are Looking to Hire Accessibility Specialists<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from wsj.com by Ann-Marie Alc\u00e1ntara<br \/>\n<em>Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, lawsuits, and diversity and inclusion efforts explain the increase in accessibility job postings, advocates and executives say<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Accessibility jobs, ranging from \u201chead of accessibility\u201d to \u201caccessibility analyst,\u201d are increasing at a rapid pace across industries as companies strive to make their products and services more tailored to people with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The number of job listings with \u201caccessibility\u201d in the title grew 78% in the year ended in July from the previous 12 months, LinkedIn said in response to a data request from The Wall Street Journal. Such listings had risen 38% in the year between August 2019 and July 2020 compared with the previous year, according to the professional networking site owned by\u00a0Microsoft<span class=\"company-name-type\">\u00a0Corp.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Companies Are Looking to Hire Accessibility Specialists &#8212; from wsj.com by Ann-Marie Alc\u00e1ntara Effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, lawsuits, and diversity and inclusion efforts explain the increase in accessibility job postings, advocates and executives say Excerpt: Accessibility jobs, ranging from \u201chead of accessibility\u201d to \u201caccessibility analyst,\u201d are increasing at a rapid pace across industries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,851,174,260,112,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-career-development","category-content-development-aggregation-repositories","category-corporate-business-world","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76606,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76603\/revisions\/76606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}