[nfbcs] project tracking software

[Jim Barbour]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:20:09PM -0500, Larry Wayland WROTE:
> Number one, no matter how valuable a employee is, a company is not and will not invest a lot of time or money trying to find a alternative solution to an accessibility problem.

I'm not sure how to respond to this.  In fact, I've found my employers
quite willing to work around accessibility issues.  They might not
replace or rewrite the software, but they will often allow me to do
task sharing, so I don't need to interact with the software; or
provide me with someone who can interact with the software on my behalf.

> Also, what is wrong with asking a company to look for accessible software.  If they find one It more than likely will be a better solution for everyone in the company.

This is often not true.

When I worked at Google, we used monitoring software that produced a
lot of graphics to represent trends in the number of down servers,
response times of queries, communications between primary and
secondary systems, availability of resources, etc.

We spent quite a bit of time working on algorithms to automate the
interpretation of all this data for accurately producing problem
alerts.  We found that there's no substitute for the human eye and
brain watching graphs to figure out when something isn't working properly.

I'll also point out that often what makes software intuitive and
convenient for sighted folks to use makes it very difficult for blind
folks to use.  This can often be coded around, but that makes the
product better for us, not for everyone.

Jim