Ms Christabelle Feeney:

The biggest thing is that we need to explain the reason for all this. If I get my foot in the door of an employer's organisation for three minutes and can explain to them why they need to learn about disability, they will always come back and look for disability awareness training. Once they do the initial disability awareness training, they will say they found it interesting and ask whether we do any other training. The training opens their eyes and makes them aware that there are so many people living with non-visible disabilities or that, statistically, there are many people already within their organisation who have disabilities. Like in so many areas of life, the biggest barrier is getting our foot in the door to have those conversations.

The point on websites is an interesting one. Through Employers for Change, I have worked with various organisations in respect of their websites. Some of the reluctance in that regard probably comes from lack of knowledge. More can be done to subsidise those changes. There is a lot of work done in retrofitting houses and so on and there is scope to consider whether employers can be encouraged to overhaul their websites with some type of incentive. Ms McGriele may wish to comment.