Famous People
Was the only person to be elected U.S. President with a physical disability.
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
Is the largest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
Is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen, or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information.
What is closed captioning or subtitles?
If an OPM employee needs a reasonable accommodation, they contact this person in the agency first.
Who is (their) immediate supervisor?
Is a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination based on disability.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act?
Was an author who became hearing and vision impaired after a childhood bout with Scarlet fever.
Who is Helen Keller?
Is the most common cause of disability among US adults.
What is arthritis?
Is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of Deaf communities in the U.S.
What is American Sign Language?
Is OPM's 508 Accessibility Program Manager.
Who is Bethany Letalian?
Is the section of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 that requires all government information is accessible to users with disabilities.
What is Section 508?
Was an English theoretical physicist known for their theory of cosmology explained by a union of the general theory of relativity and quantum mechanics.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
Are the most common mental illnesses in the U.S.
What are anxiety disorders?
Is/are designed for stairs and inclines in public and commercial areas that cannot provide the space required for elevators, vertical platform lifts, or ramps at the proper slope.
What is/are wheelchair lift(s)?
Is OPM Feds with Disabilities (FWD) Employee Resource Group's (ERG) email address.
What is Disabilities-ERG@opm.gov?
Is the authority that can be used to appoint a person with an intellectual, severe physical, or psychiatric disability to the excepted service on a permanent, time-limited, or temporary basis.
What is the Schedule A Hiring Authority (for Persons with Disabilities)?
Was a Formula 1 racer who sustained a double amputation from an accident and is now a Paralympic gold medalist.
Who is Alex Zanardi?
Is/are responsible for removing waste from the blood and returning clean blood back to the body.
What is/are the kidney(s)?
Is a tactile writing system used by people who are visually impaired.
What is Braille?
Is when the Feds with Disabilities (FWD) Employee Resource Group (ERG) meets monthly.
When is every fourth Wednesday at noon?
The Act that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability in programs conducted by Federal agencies, in programs receiving Federal financial assistance, in Federal employment, and in the employment practices of Federal contractors.
What is the Rehabilitation Act (of 1973 or Rehab Act)?
Was a Mexican painter known for their self-portraits that came to be during their recovery from a traumatic trolley accident.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
Controls your ability to speak, comprehend; and do math and write.
What is the left hemisphere of the brain?
Is a small ramp built into the edge of a sidewalk to make it easier for people using wheelchairs or strollers to pass from the sidewalk to the road.
What is a curb cut?
Is the online portal where OPM employees can voluntarily update their disability status.
What is Employee Express?
Is the President who issued Executive Order 13163 to prompt the addition of 100,000 employees with disabilities to the federal workforce within five years.
Who is President Bill Clinton?