A new executive order is asking federal agencies to increase efforts to hire 100,000 disabled workers over the next five years. 20 years after the Americans With Disabilities Act, only 1% of the federal workforce have targeted disabilities. Under the order the Office of Personnel Management, with the Labor Department, the EEOC and the Office of Management and Budget, to develop recruitment and retainment strategies in the next sixty days. New rules are also being written by the Justice Department that will prohibit discrimination against the disabled by the government and private business. New construction standards for many public places will go into effect in 2012. There is also a bill in the Senate that would make television and the Internet more accessible. It passed the House 348 to 23. The Americans With Disabilities Act was signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.
See "Anniversary of ADA brings presidential order to hire more disabled workers", Lisa Rein, The Washington Post, July 27, 2010