Employer

IBM Austin

IBM's large North Austin site, home of the company's long-running accessibility research.

Industry	Technology
Employees	264,300
Work Arrangement	Hybrid
Accommodations	Accessibility engineering, assistive technology, flexible schedules
Transit Access	Yes
Austin site	11501 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78758
Founded	1911 (as Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company)
Recognition	Listed on Disability:IN's Disability Index as a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion
Transit note	North Austin site reachable by CapMetro bus routes along Burnet Rd and the Red Line corridor.
Employee count source	Wikipedia infobox (264,300, 2025)

Overview

IBM has hired people with disabilities for over a century and runs IBM Accessibility, the team behind the open-source Equal Access Toolkit, with a major presence in North Austin.

IBM is a global technology and consulting company with roughly 264,300 employees. Its North Austin site on Burnet Road is one of its largest U.S. locations and has historically housed hardware, software, and design teams, including work connected to IBM Accessibility.

IBM describes its disability inclusion history as starting in 1914, when it hired its first employee with a disability. Today IBM Accessibility publishes the Equal Access Toolkit and accessibility checkers that teams around the world use to build products for people with disabilities, and the company offers workplace accommodations such as assistive technology, adjusted schedules, and accessible collaboration tools.

For Austin job seekers with disabilities, IBM is notable both as an employer and as a place where accessibility itself is a career path: accessibility testers, designers, and engineers are in demand, and IBM has been recognized on Disability:IN's Disability Index. The Burnet Road site is on CapMetro's North Austin bus corridor.