[BlindMath] Fw: Any Accountancy and Finance Career Options for a Blind Person?

[Brandon Keith Biggs]

Hello,

I am the chief financial officer of a startup in the bay area. The biggest
problem is that there are only 2 accounting programs that are accessible to
small businesses (I can’t say anything about SAP or other large expensive
systems). These two are Cash Manager and Quickbooks. I did bookkeeping as
part of my job for about a year and I found that Quickbooks Online was much
more accessible for moving through many transactions than the Quickbooks
Software was.

Now as a CFO, I spend most of my time in Google Sheets and running reports
off of Quickbooks and downloading them to Excel.

I find that it takes me a while to read sheets built by other people,
because for some reason, they like to space content far away from other
content. I tend to put everything together in a database style. But once
you understand how someone builds their spreadsheets, then it is pretty
fast to work with them. I tend to ask people to use Google Sheets, because
I find it much more accessible than Excel. I also build my own custom
formulas all the time. Becoming an expert in formulas is crucial for
aggravating information and finding numbers from different places. I use
ArrayFormulas, query, importrange, DGET, DSUM, and sum mostly.

NVDA reads both Excel and GSheets very well, so those are where I tend to
spend my time.

The only time when being in finance is not accessible is when you need to
use a program that is not accessible. I have found 0 interest in companies
like Xero or Zoho to make their products accessible.

Thanks,



Brandon Keith Biggs <http://brandonkeithbiggs.com/>

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 7:51 PM, Sam via BlindMath <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I am totally blind student in accounting, and will be graduating in June.
> I have already secured a job in one of the big for public accounting firms
> as a business tax associate.
> I have been using Excel and braille a lot. Different companies have
> different accounting software, and I can’t say much. But I know that it’s
> not that much challenging if you go for tax. I haven’t had A lot of
> difficulty as a student and when I did my internship in terms of
> accessibility, but I’m not sure about job.
> I will be able to share my work experience in a few months. Please don’t
> give up on your profession just because of blindness. Let me know if you
> need further information.
> Very kind regards,
> Samrawit Biyazin
> "If you judge people, you have no time to love them"
> Mother Teresa
>
> > On Mar 3, 2018, at 7:19 AM, Saaqib Mahmuud via BlindMath <
> blindmath at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hello BlindMath mates?
> > How are you?
> > Could you please take time reading through the following few lines and
> then come up with your advice?
> >
> > I have a friend who has become almost totally blind now. Prior to his
> vision loss, he did a bachelor's level degree in commerce.
> > With his blindness, what options does my friend have if he decide to
> pursue a career in accounting and finance?
> > Is either of JAWS and NVDA good enough for accessing books and study
> materials on accounting?
> > What about accessibility offered by either of these two screen readers
> of the more commonly used accountancy and financial software?
> > We would be grateful for advice and support of those blind and visually
> impaired people who have specialised in such fields.
> > Regards.
> > Sincerely, Saaqib
> >
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