"What gets measured gets done, " said Patricia Shiu, director of the Labor Department's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.

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Joyce May May Shiu, a Hong Kong language tutor, has owned a pager for eight years but recently bought a mobile phone.

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Labor's Ms. Shiu said the requirement would be legal because contractors would be inviting people to "voluntarily self-identify" a disability to improve data collection.

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Employers that don't reach the targets would be given a chance to improve compliance and would only lose contracts in "the most egregious cases" of not following the rule, Ms. Shiu said.

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Shiu Lung Leung, AU Optronics Corp.

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