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[Best Syndication News] The US government renamed the disabilityinfo.gov website to disability.gov to better serve over 50 million US citizens that are affected with a disability or are a caregiver to a person with a disability. The website is there for family members, veterans, employers, educators, and anyone that want to access disability related information. The new website combines information from 22 federal government agencies. The Labor Department is overseeing the website.

The new disability.gov website has social media tools that help users offer feedback and they can participate in online discussions as well as make suggestions for resources for the website. Users can subscribe to their Twitter feed, the RSS feed, and can add it to their social website such as Facebook or Myspace. The have a newsletter that can be signed up for as well as keep posted of new updates via email. There is also a blog as well to keep informed of anything new with the website or related agencies that would relate to disabilities.

The website is easy to navigate based on the information that you are looking for on subjects such as benefits, civil rights, community life, education, emergency preparedness, employment, health, housing, technology and transportation.

The website relaunch was coordinated with the 19th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

By: Marlene Donor