Rule 7. Employment (specific programmes)

• States’ action programmes should include :

  • Measures to design and adapt workplaces and work premises in such a way that that they become accessible to persons with different disabilities;
  • Support for the use of new technologies and the development and production of assistive tools and equipment and measures to facilitate access to such devices and equipment for persons with disabilities to enable them to gain and maintain employment;
  • Provision of appropriate training and placement and ongoing support such as personal assistance and interpreter services.

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The Rule provides some insight into the kinds of specific programmes that, in 1991, were seen as effective.

It calls on the State to take action to provide positive incentives to help persons with disabilities gain employment. Part of this is to encourage the development of accessible work places, but perhaps the most important is to support for the use of the new technologies. With these in place, persons with disabilities can easily prove their worth. Part of the rule is the idea of encouraging the private sector to hire persons with disabilities, something that can be applied, for example, to the new enterprises working through the Internet.