[NFBCS] Questions about contract and contract to hire jobs from a blindness perspective and reasonable accommodations

Thu Feb 24 03:52:46 UTC 2022

I have a very rewarding job and I actually like the people I work with.  
My actual title now is:
Digital User Experience Accessibility Analyst.

My team is based in User Research at a bank and we work directly with the designers on accessibility.  We also do all the testing and make code suggestions for the development team that actually does the coding of the website and mobile app.
I, do to my background, do a number of things.  I assist with all the tasks that everyone else does, but each of us also has a special area that we work in.  I've spent the last year and a half doing an entire enterprise wide assessment of accessibility of most of our organizations protocols from applying to a job to insuring that access to every part of their employment is accessible.  I have a very extensive work history and background in my field and have a number of STEM based degrees in those areas.  I've got two undergraduate engineering degrees, including Industrial/Systems engineering and a Engineering Psychology degree.  That is better known as Human Factors.  At the Master's level I have dual Master's in  Computer Science and  Human Computer Interaction.  My Ph.D. is also dual in Economics and Systems Engineering.  
Over the past two years, I've actually done five lecture presentations to our entire UX and Digital banking team on various principles from Psychology and Human Computer Interaction that affect our design, testing, and deployment of our products.    

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From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Amy Mullins via NFBCS
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 9:21 AM
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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Questions about contract and contract to hire jobs from a blindness perspective and reasonable accommodations

That sounds interesting. What is your day to day job like?

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> On Feb 22, 2022, at 11:40 PM, Vincent Martin via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Accessibility developer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Michael Walker via 
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> Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Questions about contract and contract to hire 
> jobs from a blindness perspective and reasonable accommodations
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> Thank you, Vincent. What contract position did you hold with Apex?
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2022, at 8:48 PM, Vincent Martin via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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>> I have had no problems when I did it in the past.
>> I even worked contract for Apex Systems and now work for the place 
>> where I was based for two years as a full-time employee.
>> Apex did not provide the accommodations, as the company did so.
>> 
>> I know some low-vision and totally blind people that worked for 
>> Signature as contractors and they provided all the accommodations.
>> All of those people were eventually converted and work for the place 
>> where they were based and that company now provides the accommodations.
>> 
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NFBCS <nfbcs-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of Michael Walker 
>> via NFBCS
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 9:28 PM
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>> Cc: Michael Walker <michael.walker199014 at gmail.com>; 
>> job-discussions at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: [NFBCS] Questions about contract and contract to hire jobs 
>> from a blindness perspective and reasonable accommodations
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> How much success have you had with employment, if you accepted a 
>> contract or contract to hire job through a staffing agency? How did 
>> that work out for your long-term success, especially in terms of 
>> things like accessibility issues and reasonable accommodations?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Mike
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