[Nfb-web] Looking for Affiliate WebSite Assistance

[Gabe Vega]

I reject this idea, on very simple reasoning. Maybe this is fair for those so called developers who know the basics of setting up a CMS, and still manage to make it look like a throw back from 1997 with mostly text. but for those of us who make a living where accessibility, and visual appeal is our skill, with colors, graphics, placement, visual lay out and much more. my development is definitely worth the premium price i put on it and I know that my skills are so valuable that volunteering my time would only insult my skills, my education, my value both as a developer, and as a blind man who makes an actually living doing this stuff. for you to ask for my knowledge, skill set and know how on a volunteer bases shows how much you don’t know goes in to doing what we do, and believe me its way more than just setting up drupal, wordpress and a simple host. I can tell you out of all the so called developers, I have one of the only tech companies out there who not only do accessible web design but also take in consideration of visual appeal and lay out and I actually employ and pay for sighted developers to handle that part of the job so that not only do you get a blind developer but you also get a sighted developer in tandom to give you that amazing, visual driven, accessible website no one else I know, could deliver.

> On Oct 3, 2015, at 12:28 AM, Michael Hansen via Nfb-web <nfb-web at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Gary,
> 
> The last thing I want to do is take some income away from someone but I
> really appreciate your comments.
> 
> While maintaining a web site can be a lot of work from time to time so can
> be being a State President or Secretary or Treasure. Those are not paid
> positions nor do those people expect to be paid when they are elected. We
> certainly take care of necessary expenses when appropriate (postage,
> copies, envelopes, occasional transportation, etc....) but we don't pay
> them a hourly wage or a salary. Why do some webmasters expect this. Being a
> webmaster should be looked upon as a talent (or service) that the
> individual can lend to our cause.
> 
> Just my 2 cents
> 
> Mike
> ---
> Webmaster
> NFB of Nebraska
> 
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 2:30 PM, Gary Wunder via Nfb-web <nfb-web at nfbnet.org
>> wrote:
> 
>> With all due respect to paid positions, should we pay our state presidents,
>> our newsletter editors, are recording secretaries, our treasurers, and the
>> rest of the folks who regularly volunteer a significant amount of time?
>> There is no excuse for treating anyone badly, be they a webmaster or
>> anything else, but most of us bring the talents that we have, and we turn
>> them into a donation. At the same time we donate our brains and energy, we
>> are actively involved in fundraising to secure those things that we can't
>> hope to get free of charge.
>> 
>> In the NFB of Missouri we have hired several webmasters because we believed
>> the work to be so time-consuming that it was not reasonable for a volunteer
>> to take it on. In one case we hired a webmaster whose primary goal was to
>> make our website accessible but who would not pay attention to visual
>> criticisms and the suggestion that ones work should be visually observed as
>> well as audibly red. The second webmaster we hired decided he would convert
>> our website to Word Press. We talked about the absolute necessity of the
>> website being accessible both from the perspective of the visiting user and
>> the person doing the updating. The person we hired assured us that he had
>> read a good bit about making Word Press accessible, and the content he
>> generated for us was indeed quite usable. When it came to working with the
>> content management system, which was one of our major objectives, he
>> realized that making the website accessible was beyond him. He quit. To his
>> credit he did not take the second amount of money which was due him on
>> completion of that part of the project, but getting qualified people is no
>> easy matter.
>> 
>> Before we decide that being a webmaster is necessarily a paid position with
>> the NFB, let us consider by what distinction we will divide paid and
>> volunteer effort, and once we have established a list of paid positions,
>> let
>> us figure out how in the world we are going to fund them. The mail campaign
>> is slowly dying; reverse mortgages are taking their toll on estates that
>> once went to us; telephone solicitation is frowned upon and ever more
>> difficult. I'm sure that if we all put our minds to tackling this problem,
>> we can come up with a solution.
>> 
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