[nabentre] Attention Peter: Re: Accessible Work-From-Home Opportunities

[Michael Babcock]

Hey Peter,

Can you give me a call or send me an email?

Phone number is 541-435-5568

Would love to chat with you more about the business you’re involved in.

Michael

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 12:07 PM, Peter Donahue via nabentre <nabentre at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello again everyone,
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>                While I can't speak for other work-from-home opportunities
> and their accessibility I can say that our team and our parent company are
> working hard to make their Internet and mobile sites and apps accessible
> with assistive technology. I know this for a fact because I have worked with
> our teams' project coordinator to make our mobile suite of apps usable with
> screen readers and other assistive technology.
> 
> 
> 
>                In addition to working with our team I and a few other blind
> entrepreneurs are working closely with our parent company to insure the
> accessibility of all of it's Web and mobile resources. They're working with
> WCAG, Microsoft and others including us their end users to achieve this goal
> before their new Website goes live later this year. We're also urging them
> to make these resources available on more platforms such as Apple T.V.
> Amazon Fire T.V., Roku,and others. 
> 
> 
> 
>                Contrary to what some have said here there are companies
> working hard to make the business doable from one's home and further
> eliminating many of the obstacles Lauren outlined in her message earlier
> today. For example our parent company heavily frowns on partners stocking
> large product inventories' they may never move. Rather they have in place a
> "Direct fulfillment" program where team members and customers have their
> products shipped directly from the company to them saving the team member
> the hassle of having to deliver the products themselves. This along with our
> Web and mobile technology allowed many business activities to be done from
> one's home. We currently service customers in Dallas and in several cities
> in Massachusetts all without leaving home. Under certain conditions we can
> also operate in certain countries and territories directly from the U.S.
> making it possible to have team members and customers in places such as
> Canada and the Dominican Republic to name a few. 
> 
> 
> 
>                What some of you people are looking for is staring you right
> in the face. Will you have the good sense to board this train before it
> leaves the station or wwill you keep on wishing and hoping achieving
> absolutely nothing? Had someone not given us a good kick in the pants and
> pushed us to seace opportunity I may have spent several nights on the
> streets of Boston and Mary may hnot have her Braille-Edge 40;. All the best.
> 
> 
> 
>                Peter Donahue who looks forward to attending the Bracebridge
> Dinner at Yosemite National Park with wife Mary but wouldn't want to go
> there alone.
> 
> 
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