In our estimation, a great deal of the resistance to hiring persons with disabilities is the cost of accommodation, particularly. This is an issue that the federal government must wrestle to the ground. It's employers who are purchasing software that is not accessible to screen-access technology and thereby creating a brick wall in front of a person who is blind or partially sighted.
We need the production sector of software to be aware of the need for access technology to be able to get at the software they've created, the spreadsheets or the databases, and so on.
I know of a blind woman here in Victoria, working for an employer, and she's working in a total different system than all of the rest of her colleagues because the system that company decided to purchase cannot be made accessible to screen-access technology.
We need building ramps and ensuring that buildings are accessible to persons with disabilities. We just need an awful lot more help.