Ms Jodie McGriele:

They have disability-confident badges in the UK. As part of our provision for the workplace integration partners we took on vision impairment, VI, confidence. We train businesses on the different types of vision impairment, how they might impact a person, what barriers might look like and we might simulate different types of vision impairments in order that people can understand. We might do additional training on such things as accessibility, and how to create an accessible PowerPoint or document.

Then, once we have engaged with that employer, we give it a digital badge to say that NCBI would recommend it as a visually impaired-confident employer. We would be confident then to promote that company or business to our talent pool of job-ready candidates.