The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has launched a new website – Disability.gov – offering information for people with disabilities, their family members, veterans, caregivers, employers, and others. The new site replaces DisabilityInfo.gov and features information about disability-related programs and services as well as social media tools to serve the more than 50 million Americans with disabilities.
The website’s social media tools include a Twitter feed, RSS feeds, a blog, and social bookmarking, according to the DOL’s announcement. Additional social media tools are to be added in the months ahead.
The new site includes ways to get answers to questions on finding employment, job accommodations, and other topics. The site is organized into 10 subject areas: benefits, civil rights, community life, education, emergency preparedness, employment, health, housing, technology, and transportation.
Disability.gov is led by the DOL’s Office of Disability Employment Policy and contains thousands of links to information from federal agency partners, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations, and state and local governments. The DOL calls the new website “an important resource not only for Americans with disabilities, but also for the parents of children with disabilities, employers, workforce and human resource professionals, veterans, military families, caregivers, and many others.”