According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Americans aged 50 years and older are estimated to control over $1.7 trillion annually in discretionary spending power,Read more about Did You Know… #037
American economists estimate that if organizations committed to hiring just 1% of employees with disabilities, on a larger scale, these companies could help boost theRead more about Did You Know… #036
Roger Hochschild, CEO of Discover Financial Services, claims that leveraging diversity, equity and inclusion helps the business create innovative products, a stronger workforce, and betterRead more about Did You Know… #035
According to Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture, research reveals that leading disability inclusive companies stand to gain as much as 28% higher revenue, double theRead more about Did You Know… #034
According to data shared in 2021 by Kantar’s Global Inclusion Imperative, 65% of consumers worldwide say that when given the choice, they will prefer toRead more about Did You Know… #033
In 2021, the Pew Research Center reported that 46% of young American adults (aged 18 to 29) already knew of at least one person whoRead more about Did You Know… #032
Research conducted by the Nielsen Norman Group indicates that, on average, every one of us loses about 8% of our ability to use the webRead more about Did You Know… #031
According Statista, 25% of internet users worldwide were aged 45 or older as of 2021. This means that a quarter of all internet traffic aroundRead more about Did You Know… #030
As it turns out, colourblind audience members are not the only ones who struggle with colour perception! Research shows that retina cells progressively lose sensitivityRead more about Did You Know… #029
According to InvisibleDisabilities.org, an American non-profit association dedicated to raising awareness that invisible illnesses, pains, and disabilities are very real, states that about 74% ofRead more about Did You Know… #028
According to findings from the 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability, an estimated 20% of working-age Canadians self-identify as having one or more disabilities that affectRead more about Did You Know… #027
People with disabilities represent at least 17% of the global population, and form the largest minority group worldwide. With 80% of disabilities being acquired laterRead more about Did You Know… #026
A 2021 study of the world’s top million websites conducted by WebAIM found that 97.4 percent of them failed at least some web basic accessibilityRead more about Did You Know… #025
In 2021, an average of eleven lawsuits were filed every day in U.S. courts over website inaccessibility, and 412 of the top 500 internet retailersRead more about Did You Know… #024
According to the Center for Retail Research, a firm based in Norwich, England that provides research and analysis about the retail industry, the coronavirus pandemicRead more about Did You Know… #023
21% of all lawsuit cases in 2019 were about companies being sued at least for the 2nd time, demonstrating that unless you act fast, thereRead more about Did You Know… #022
Over 66% of the Internet Top 500 retailers have now been named in an ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) web or app accessibility case sinceRead more about Did You Know… #021
In 2019, another 2,890 lawsuits were again filed against American organizations on the basis of their inaccessible content. Interestingly enough, 21% of those lawsuits wereRead more about Did You Know… #020
In 2018 alone, a total of 2,314 lawsuits were filed against American organizations on the basis of their content not being inclusive of people withRead more about Did You Know… #019
A lot of people tend to think of people with disabilities as a rather negligible part of the customer base, but these people constitute, byRead more about Did You Know… #018