[nfbcs] project tracking software

[Gary Wunder]

Hi, Tracy. I agree with you. It is fine to say that you use Word Perfect if you like it and we'll use Word. But if you are a supervisor, you better be able to teach people what the company uses. The interfaces between programs aren't  that seamless either. Children in school use the BrailleNote, but now we have seminars devoted to what aides have to fix before turned into the teacher. Sometimes separate but different may work for us if the paradigm is different enough, but mostly one has to use the same software to be on the same team. 
I agree that we aren't just left behind by the cutting-edge stuff. It is old stuff that is said to work with Jaws 7 but nothing beyond. This is not acceptable. We can and must do better.  Work is too important to let it slip away. 

Gary

 

 

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On May 13, 2013, at 9:36 AM, "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net> wrote:

> Hi Jude.
> That has not been my experience.  We have one project management software
> package, which happens to be Remedy online.  We have one email system, one
> time management system, and one training system.  If a system is
> inaccessible, too bad.
> 
> Mike, it doesn't seem to me that most stuff is inaccessible because it's
> on the cutting edge.  It seems to me that they're inaccessible because the
> needs of disabled people are so trivial that they can be completely
> ignored, and usually not considered at all.  It really bugs me to be
> treated as though I don't even exist.
> Tracy
>> In my experience of the workplace, multiple software titles that
>> essentially perform the same functions exist for the
>> programmer/developer community.  The virtue in that is that the
>> accessibility user gets to use something that can get them into the
>> game.  The second virtue of that is that for whatever reason the
>> accessible software development package cannot complete the job, the
>> parts that need to be done by inaccessible software can get done by
>> other titles.  In that way and to that extent those using accessibility
>> software development platforms get made parts of teams.
>> 
>> On Sun, 12 May 2013, Stanzel, Susan - FSA, Kansas City, MO wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Everyone,
>>> 
>>> I thought long and hard about all this, but since the law was passed it
>>> should mean something. I finally decided to put my money where my mouth
>>> is (sort of speak). I certainly hope I can work as long as I want to. I
>>> am uncomfortable.
>>> 
>>> Susie
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: nfbcs [mailto:nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman
>>> Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 5:23 PM
>>> To: 'NFB in Computer Science Mailing List'
>>> Subject: Re: [nfbcs] project tracking software
>>> 
>>> Actually, there's an unspoken aspect to all this that most of us do not