How to implement digital Assistive Technology Systems on the Labour Market for Persons with Disability

Abstract

Digital Assistive Technology can foster the inclusion of persons with disability on the job market tremendously. At present however, its potential to increase their employability as partial solution to the current skills shortage remains untapped. The lack of knowledge around the applicability of digital AT in various industrial sectors and its usability for different types of disability or employer’s demands obstructs its further dissemination into the labour markets. More feasibility studies are needed exploring drivers of a successful implementation of digital AT in different industrial sectors and different needs of employees and employers on the non- sheltered job market. In this paper, we report preliminary results of an (ongoing) two-phase study on implementing digital AT in different industry sectors with employees with different types of disabilities. The preliminary findings from a thorough digitisation potential analysis reveal valuable insights on the requirements for the implementation of digital ATs.

Keywords: digital assistive technology, usability and inclusive design, persons with disability, social and employment inclusion, first labour market

DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1006152