Build Effective Workplace Accommodations Systems
Learn how we can support you with creating accommodation practices that are practical, private, responsive, and grounded in dignity.
Workplace accommodations play a critical role in creating accessible, inclusive, and disability confident workplaces. They help employees with disabilities participate fully at work, while also supporting trust, clarity, and better communication across teams.
Untapped Talent helps employers move beyond uncertainty by building clearer processes for disclosure, confidentiality, accommodation conversations, implementation, and follow-up. Whether you are reviewing an existing policy or building a more consistent process from the ground up, we can help your team create workplace support systems that are easier to understand and easier to use.
Access our Resource Library
Use our accommodation resources to review your current process, identify gaps, and support your team with clearer guidance. These tools can help you think through what employees and managers need before, during, and after an accommodation request.
Resources can support your team with:
✓ Understanding what workplace accommodations are
✓ Reviewing your accommodation policy and procedures
✓ Thinking through flexible work arrangements, workstation modifications, and human or technical supports
✓ Building a process that protects privacy and confidentiality
✓ Creating clearer steps for managers and employees
Or, Get Support with Your Accommodations Process
Have an accessibility expert from our team work with your organization to review, design, or improve your accommodation process.
We can help your team better understand the duty to accommodate and duty to inquire, approach accommodation conversations respectfully, and create a process that is collaborative, consistent, and responsive to individual needs.
Wondering which approach works best for you?
Quick Wins to Consider
Perhaps you are not looking for a full review of your accommodation process yet. Here are some quick wins we can support you with.
Accommodation Policy and Procedure Review
Review your current accommodation policy and procedures to identify gaps, unclear language, or barriers that may make the process harder for employees and managers to navigate.
Manager Training for Accommodation Conversations
Support people leaders with practical training on how to respond to accommodation requests, protect privacy, and approach conversations with respect and confidence.
Privacy and Confidentiality Review
Review how accommodation information is collected, shared, stored, and communicated so employees can ask for support with greater confidence.
Accommodation Process Mapping
Map the steps employees and managers currently follow when an accommodation need comes up, then identify where the process can be clearer, faster, or more consistent. Your text
Flexible Work and Workstation Supports
Explore how flexible work arrangements, workstation modifications, and human or technical supports can reduce barriers and support full participation at work.
Accessible Forms and Templates
Review or create accommodation forms, manager guides, communication templates, and follow-up tools that are accessible, plain language, and easy to use.
Do you want to measure accessibility at your workplace?
Our free self directed assessment of accessibility in employment at your company can help you identify where to start and what to prioritize. It includes a section on the Development and Maintenance of an Accessibility Support System, with accessibility support used in connection with accommodations.
Do You Have a Quick Accessibility Question?
Register for Untapped Talent and post your question in our Accessibility Forum. The Untapped Talent community or one of our accessibility experts can help you think through workplace accommodation questions, process challenges, and practical next steps.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Workplace accommodations are adjustments to work duties, processes, tools, or the work environment that help employees participate fully at work. Accommodations can look different depending on the person, their role, and what they need.