Hello, I'm Tamison Ford. Welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.

Imagine being turned down for a job and being told this.

You interviewed well, but we don't think that someone blind would be able to use, you know, things like Excel.

So we don't want to offer you the job.

More than a billion people around the world live with a disability, and that's the reality

for many of them.

How could we have a world where you are not included in business because you happen to be

different?

And why are there so many barriers there?

Because your lived experience is different to somebody else.

In today's Business Daily from the BBC, we're focusing on disability inclusion.

We speak to the woman who's managed to get 500 of the world's biggest companies to promote it

in the workplace.

The United Nations describes people living with disabilities as the world's largest minority group.

A billion of the planet, 7 billion people, live with some sort of disability.

So I am registered blind. I am probably 97% blind, so I can't read anything at all.

Sam Lateef lives in Egham, just outside of London. She knows what it's like to be excluded from the workplace because of her disability.

I did have experiences where I would go for interviews, for large organisations, where I would do

well at the interview, but these rejections that I got that were something along the lines of,

you passed the test, you interviewed well, but we don't think that someone blind would be

able to use, you know, things like Excel, so we don't want to offer you the job.

And they would very blatantly tell me that, you know, the reason they weren't offering me the job was because I'm blind.

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