The St. Mary’s airport in the Isles of Scilly (sic) has advertised for the post of Air Traffic Controller, offering potential candidates application packs in Braille, large text or audio formats. It’s been suggested this is “political correctness” gone too far, but the Council stated that this was standard practise for all job ads.
Source:Ananova
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