The project will:

1) develop, with the help of crowd sourcing, an expert system that collects information about personal, task, and environmental factors and determines potential solutions;

2) incorporate best practices for accommodating employees from published and new research, and from feedback from system users on accommodation effectiveness;

3) incorporate links to implementation resources;

4) program a web interface and mobile app;

5) optimize the system’s content and usability;

6) evaluate how people utilize the system in the field;

7) disseminate the system through employment, disability, and rehabilitation services provider networks. 

Project staff will work closely with stakeholders, including our national and local disability employment, vocational rehabilitation and assistive technology partners, in the design and evaluation of the accommodation tool.  Project outputs will include Work ACCESS and new findings on accommodation effectiveness.  Work ACCESS will provide employers and employees with an easy-to-use tool that will empower them to make appropriate accommodation decisions.  Significantly expanding employers’ workplace accommodation knowledge will increase their capacity to provide individualized solutions that improve employment outcomes for people with disabilities.

• Surveys

• Accommodation Problems and Solutions Associated with Telework
• Accommodation Problems / Solutions for Reopening with COVID-19