[nfbcs] The Future of Technology: A Journey

[Andy Borka]

Yes, if that blind employer discriminated against another disabled
candidate. The law doesn't exempt disabled employers from discriminating
against candidates.


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Would you say the same thing if the blind person was the employer?



On 8/12/2018 12:05 PM, Andy Borka via nfbcs wrote:
>> " Looking around at people I know, some of them have given up looking 
>> for
> work, after spending a lot of time and effort struggling against 
> prejudices against hiring them and against inaccessible systems, 
> including masses of hand-written paper."
> Just the point. We should be working on making employers understand 
> their systems don't work, not necessarily the other way around. There 
> are handfuls of qualified blind people. The problem isn't the blind 
> people, it's the employers. Give the uplifting push to the qualified 
> blind person, but sometimes employers need a very hard hit with the
proverbial hammer.
>
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> nfbcs
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> I don't know.  Looking around at people I know, some of them have 
> given up looking for work, after spending a lot of time and effort 
> struggling against prejudices against hiring them and against 
> inaccessible systems, including masses of hand-written paper.  Also, 
> there seem to be state agencies that exist to help blind people, but 
> are actually contracting with poorly-run service providers.  I can see 
> how people get discouraged and throw in the towel.  I'd think that 
> offering encouragement and ideas they might not have thought of would be
helpful.
>
> I'm sure, when I retire and try to volunteer for something, there will 
> be lots of people telling me that a blind person has nothing to offer, 
> no matter how successful that person has been in the past.  I'm sure 
> I'll welcome some encouragement myself then.
> Tracy
>
>
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> via nfbcs
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>
> We don't need to convince blind people to get out and work. We need to 
> convince employers to hire qualified blind people to do the work. More 
> people are denied work because of disability, age, and other protected 
> classes set out by the ADA and EEOC. With a blog to convince blind 
> people to get out and contribute, more employers might think we are 
> lazy and can't do much. Besides, performing research doesn't pay the
bills.
>
>
>
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> Subject: [nfbcs] The Future of Technology: A Journey
>
> I post this in the hopes that it inspires blind computer scientists to 
> help the field as a whole advance.  Let's Encourage blind researchers 
> to get out there!  I have created a blog of essays, algorithms, and 
> anything related to computer science.  The goal is to show the world 
> that blind people can have a voice in computer science.  The link is:
>
> http://tfotaj.blogspot.com
>
> Enjoy!  P.S. contributors are welcome.
>
>
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