currently, we are wrangling with the following issue. Not all staff with disabilities wish to declare them, Indeed, many staff and students ( myself included) are uncomfortable with tagging themselves as "disabled". In practice, this means that they may have informed their line manager of their needs and requirements, but have asked the manager to maintain confidentiality. This is sort of ok if the manager is well equipped to support them with work routing changes, but if they require further reasonable adjustments, the maintenance of confidentiality is difficult. It is also a a legally dangerous position, being that the law seems to suggest that if one member of staff knows, then the organisation is judged to know.

so the question is, how are we all to balance the need for confidentiality and data protection with the need to have clear management information on people's disabilities in order to appropriately meet their needs and protect ourselves against claims when we did not know what the person's condition was and what they needed in terms of support?

From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Clare Hughes
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could anyone please let me know if is possible to change the colour of the cursor on Apple Macs - we have a student with visual impairment who really needs this facility and we can't manage to facilitate it