[blindlaw] inaccessible automated time / payroll / benefits system

[Ray Wayne]

Hello:
I have been dealing with a similar system for several years; I work for New 
York City. Thanks to a cooperative employee in our personnel department, I 
have been able to manage. However, if that gentlman should leave, I will be 
up a creek.
I posted an inquiry on several listservs, including this one, about two 
years ago, to ascertain if there were others having the same experience. I 
got no replies. If this is something we now need to take up, please count me 
in.
Ray Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Kelly via blindlaw" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
To: "Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2014 4:04 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] inaccessible automated time / payroll / benefits system



Our county government implemented a new, fully automated time / payroll / 
benefits program this week, without any advance training to any of the end 
users.  Worse yet, after being unable to even access the training modules 
once they were made available, I learned that the program is not accessible 
to JAWS or any other screen reader.  This will be the only means for 
requesting vacation time, entering sick or vacation time (and hours worked, 
for non-exempt employees), accessing benefits and information about 
available sick / vacation hours, paystubs, etc.  It is also the only means 
by which we will be paid.  In short, the handful of visually impaired county 
employees such as myself will be forced to rely on the skill and accuracy of 
another to input our hours and requests, and will further have to permit 
someone other than just HR and our supervisor to access our account in order 
to get to the information stored there.

I know that these systems are becoming more and more popular in both the 
private and public sector,  Has NFB or any other organization litigated the 
ADA violations that this seems to involve?
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