Hmmm this probably should go in a topic in audiogames offtopic as
this is something I'd like continued.
However while I have you here even though you had a bad run at least
you have a training program.
You do uni and hope that the environments and language are accessable to you.
You may or may not get help and you will have to find it yourself.
I was able to do that once but barely.
The other time I managed to do it with carrying a couple laptops
round just so I could use linux and windows.
I got the credit for installing the system in the previded hard
drives but I couldn't get access at all and I spent half the course
trying to get access.
Not to mention the issues I had with the various organisations and
computers in question.
We have a few limited training courses for basic computer skills but
no program like that.
In my country your best bet is to try for a limited number of
scholarships for your local university otherwise its paying the fees
which you can't afford so someone else has to pay for you.
To get the scholarship you need a living skills flatting program but
you can get a good year or 2 or a bad year or 2.
I got a vary bad year and chose to not extend and got a bad deal in
some of my courses and with some other visual courses needed to
advance I couldn't continue.
I have the qualifications of an entry level typist, which in my
country of new zealand prity mean that there is no hope of me getting
a job off the mainstream.
I'd do better selling alegal software.
I have been able to get the odd job but it needs direct approach,
agencys at least some of them are useless.
So while you may say you had a bad deal and I think you did at least
you have a program don't! rubbish! it!
Because here in new zealand I had none.
Even if it was totally crap I'd still want it, to get the right
qualification even if I didn't get employment would put me on the
level with normal people in the department.
What I have is technically nothing at all.
At 05:37 a.m. 12/01/2015, you wrote:
Hi Thomas,
this is actually sad.
And I don't mean you explaining to me how certain things work.
But since you don't know me personally, I can tell you that I was
supposed to know such things.
In my country Germany, there are two ways to learn about software development.
The first way is to go to university and study relevant subjects there.
And there is the other way, where you are trained by either a
company or by a school for the blind.
In this case your training would take three years.
Half that time would be working either in a real company or in one
created for training but with realistic simulations of the things
you would do in a real company.
The second half is to go to school learning all the theory you need.
At the end of your three years you would have to take a certain
written exam which is the same for everyone who wants to go this
route in Germany and to which blind aspiring software developers
also have to follow the same rules.
The sad fact however is that we had one blind teacher who did not
teach us enough in regards to how software, the operating system or
Windows work against each other or with each other.
My so called training was practically a waste of time, allthough it
was formally correct by the educational standards under which it is governed.
I know a visually impaired friend who also wants to be a software developer.
He is looking for a job but hasn't found anything good yet.
I fully believe that one half of his problem is because many
companies might not want a visually impaired worker in their ranks.
But lately I have come to think that it is more due to the messed up
education in ghis field when you don't want to go the university route...
I won't go more into detail here, since it is really off-topic.
Originally I wanted to know why such programs like Dosbox are not
accessible (Flash, too).
Now I know that their developers did not consider accessibility when
designing them.
On the other hand, I also wondered why the screen reader developers
did not atempt to create solutions on their own, since I know that
the moment the internet became easy to use for everyone, multimedia
technologies were developed and deployed.
But since it was mainstream at that time, it was strange to not see
major screen reader developers atempting to make their own solutions
until a form of communication might have been established with the
technology developers or until there were more worldwhide accepted
standards or guidelines to follow.
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