If you hire through a website -- a careers page, a Greenhouse job post, a LinkedIn Easy Apply listing, a Google Form, a PDF you ask people to email back -- there is a very good chance that disabled candidates are dropping out of your funnel before a human ever sees them. Not because they are not qualified. Because the application form does not work.

This is not a small problem. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the labor-force participation rate for people with disabilities at roughly 24%, compared with 67% for the rest of the population. A meaningful share of that gap is structural, and a meaningful share of the structural part is the application step itself: a date picker that cannot be reached with a keyboard, a CAPTCHA that demands you click pictures of buses, an "upload your resume" field with no label that screen readers can find, a multi-step wizard that loses your data when a screen reader pages back.

This article is for hiring managers, HR leads, founders, and small-business owners who are…