Googlers with disabilities make critical contributions across the company. We’re actively working to make Google a place where everyone can learn, grow, and have an impact. Here are a few ways we’re doing it:

• Launched a new careers site to better recruit people with disabilities.

• Supporting employees with resources like personal care assistance, visual support assistance, sign language interpreters, and CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) captioning through the Disability Accommodations team at Google. The Candidate Accommodations team provides similar support for candidates, to help ensure a barrier-free interview experience.

• Created a training on Disability Fundamentals for managers at Google, then partnered with Disability:In to make the course available to their partner companies.

• Cultivating community through Disability Alliance, our internal employee resource group (ERG), which was named ERG of the Year 2020 by Disability:IN.

• Joined the Valuable 500 as one of 14 iconic companies, working to “co-create solutions which will transform the business system to be more inclusive of people with disabilities.”

At Google, we strive to make our technology and products accessible for everyone to use. That’s why we’ve developed a camera experience that’s inclusive to all. Our latest product update, Guided Frame, helps people with blindness, low vision, and dexterity-related disabilities take selfies with more ease. The tool utilizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) to deliver a combination of precise audiovisual cues and haptic feedback to better frame selfies. Throughout the product development process, we worked with members of the disability community, gathering feedback to improve the software and co-create Guided Frame.

Members of the disability community are often the first to come up with innovative solutions to challenges they’ve faced in their lives. Our Start with One experiments are a collection of projects that began with a maker working with one person to innovate for them and their community using Google technology. Many of these projects then spread to impact many more beyond their initial scope.

For the millions of people around the world who have atypical speech, face-to-face communication can be difficult and using voice recognition technologies can be frustrating, too. To help with this, thousands of people with speech impairments submitted speech samples through a Google research initiative called Project Euphonia. With their help, and in collaboration with partners like ALS Therapy Development Institute, Team Gleason, and the Motor Neurone Disease Association, the Euphonia team worked to train new speech recognition models with the aim of improving tools like Live Transcribe and Google Assistant. In addition, Project Euphonia’s research created the foundation for Project Relate, helping people with non-standard speech interact with the Google Assistant and communicate more easily with others.