[NFBCS] Accessibility for programmers

[Tracy Carcione]

Jack, I agree with everything you said.  I'm willing to help as best I
can.  I should have more time soon, as I get backwatered.
Tracy

> Yeah, I think if the NFB got behind a group for blind IT professionals,
> we might be able to do some good. As I said, I tried to get something
> like that started independently but it fizzled out. Here is a list of
> the goals of that organization.
>
> 1. Communicate with hardware & software manufacturers about
> accessibility problems. If their new router software has accessibility
> issues, does Cisco even know it? Lets make sure they do.
>
> 2. Help current IT professionals avoid being "backwatered". (I
> personally coined that phrase). Getting backwatered is my term for being
> stuck in a job dealing with obsolete technology because its what has
> always been accessible -- until its not. Your skills get narrower and
> narrower. You don't get to play with the new stuff because its not
> accessible.  These are huge problems in a very competitive job market.
>
> 3. Provide a place for IT professionals to exchange knowledge of how to
> deal with accessibility issues. All of us know tricks to get around
> accessibility problems. I am sure that by now, many blind IT
> professionals have missed out on an opportunity when there was a
> workaround they didn't even know about.
>
> 4. Encourage young people to consider information technology and comp
> sci as a career. With the right education and tools, a person can earn a
> place in one of the most sought after and highly paid professions
> available to a blind person. Not to diss musician or massage therapist
> but IT pays better and there are more jobs.
>
> On 2/25/20 9:10 AM, Tracy Carcione via NFBCS wrote:
>> When I was complaining about 32	70 accessibility a couple weeks ago,
>> some
>> people seemed to say that it was because 3270 emulation is old and not
>> used so much anymore.  I see that.  I know I'm a bit of a dinosaur.
>> But this morning, I thought I saw an opportunity to start moving out of
>> the old legacy system and into another system supported by my group.  I
>> asked my boss about the possibilities, and he said that that would be
>> fine, except that system has a lot of Citrix-hosted applications, and we
>> know making Jaws and Citrix play together is a real pain.
>> Citrix is common as dirt.  I think my whole IT department uses it a lot,
>> but not me.  I know how to get Jaws to work with it, but it takes quite
>> a
>> bit of coordination, and, if that coordination is with outside vendors,
>> it's even more complicated.
>>
>> I think Jack is right.  We of NFBCS should be working on accessibility
>> for
>> programmers.  I don't know what that would entail, but I think we need
>> to
>> do it, or we'll have more and more problems.  The things we need access
>> to
>> are a lot more complicated than Granny getting her email.
>> Now, please, tell me I'm all wet, and there are simple solutions to my
>> problems.
>> Tracy
>>
>>
>>
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