[Ohio-Talk] Job Update

[Cheree Heppe]

In my experience, forced to use jaws with the federal government, this sweet of blindness connected computer access is deeply flawed, with layer after layer of hidden glitches and problem areas, with work around as the main tenant of programming thinking.

Check if there is someone with Web Aim who knows a little more about how to get around some of this  built in bad design.

Accessibility teaching tools for web design, ref Sassy Outwatter:


Webaim.org is the best resource for learning how to be digitally accessible, and they have a lot of DIY tools available.

No promises on this resource, but it is a group that handles web accessibility and may know someone. 

In my opinion, tying blind people to a program that looks a lot like a house of cards, with the necessity to run to specialized Wizard type techs for bail-outs  for every little conceivable problem is not universal design, and is self serving, and no friend of the  blind.


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> On Sep 28, 2020, at 21:59, delcenia brown via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> Ryan, 
> Sorry to hear about the challenges that you are having. You have the skills
> and the knowledge  keep pressing on!  
> 
> If you do not mind the question. Who was helping with the scripting (if that
> is the correct terminology)to make sure that JAWS would work with their
> software and applications? I hope it was not anyone at University Hospital. 
> 
> Many years ago I had to have someone come and  write a script to make sure
> JAWS would work with the company I was working for  software. Personally, I
> think if one knows what they are doing it should not have taken more than a
> month and if you were working with someone, they should have look at all the
> applications you would have been working with. 
> 
> Delcenia 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of ryan sima via
> Ohio-Talk
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2020 7:38 AM
> To: ohio-talk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: ryan sima <ryansima at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ohio-Talk] Job Update
> 
> Hi everyone,
> If you recall, Suzanne happened to let all of you know about a month ago I
> got a job at University Hospitals. Well, they have been pushing my start
> date back. They told me in August when they hired me that JAWS things were
> all taken care of and I would start on August 31st. Then, they told me there
> were some applications that were having difficulties and they would need to
> push my start date back to the 14th. Then they decided to push it back to
> Sept 28th, and now to Oct 12th over Jaws things that should have been taken
> care of when they hired me. I asked the person last week "Are you saying
> that I am not guaranteed this job anymore because these Jaws issues are not
> taken care of?" And the person said "I wouldn't say any job is a guarantee,
> but we're working diligently to make things work." So that was a nice way of
> saying no. So as of right now, no job, and no insurance. I am applying for
> new jobs now in case they come back and say sorry we are not going to be
> able to hire you. The only positive thing is they said if other job  become
> available that don't require those applications they will let me know. I
> also have an appointment with BSVI to start services with them again if need
> be. So that's where I am now.
> 
> Ryan
> 
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