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Microsoft helps build data hub to track disabilities as part of effort to close ‘disability divide’

Jenny Lay-Flurrie, chief accessibility officer for Microsoft. (Microsoft Photo) There are lots of sources for global data on economic indicators, population sizes, infectious diseases, sustainability — the list goes on. But missing in the lineup has been a comprehensive, publicly available, worldwide clearinghouse of information on disabilities. Microsoft is teaming up with the World Bank…