The other side of that is software the companies use. Not all of it
is useable by a screen reader. There are not enough knowledgeable
assessable programmers out there to make it useable. Some of those
coders just squeak by and hope you don't get fired over it. Just
because its for accessibility. The programmers charge from $75 and up
a hour even if the code is still not useable.
Where I work my co workers enjoy having us blind there. They see that
we do the same job they do and meet the same requirements.
Another one from this list is one of my co workers. The job is tire
ring and you take a load of crap daily! But, the money is good for
now and its a job where before no job was thinkable for us by employers.
At 10:09 AM 12/3/2009, you wrote:
Hi Dark,
We have the same problem here on this side of the pond as well. High
unemployment rates among the visually impaired, several with
excellent credentials but no jobs to match, and only a handful
manage to make it into a job somewhere. Our unemployment rates
national sucks anyway, but the visually impaired are by far hit the
worst by the economic situation. A company can't come out and not
higher you because you are blind, but they can set roadblocks in
your way in order to make sure you don't get that job all the same A
good case in point.
Ever since leaving college I've never been able to find local full
time employment in a company or firm so tend to work independently
out of my home as a tech web administrator, or wherever my skills
could prove useful. It doesn't bring in the kind of money my skills
should under normal working circumstances, and because I work in the
private sector, for myself, I don't have an actual employer to give
me references to other companies. So about three years ago I put in
an application at AOL in Columbus who were seeking a developer who
has experience working with Linux, who knows Java, etc and it looked
like something I could do. unfortunately, although I could give them
credentials on my Java education I couldn't hand them a slip saying
I know Linux even though by then I used it every fricking day on my
personal computers, nor could I give them a specific employer since
I was in a sense employing myself for the previous few years. They
said to me you don't have the experience we are looking for, and out
the door I went.
The bottom line was I knew I had the skills for that job. how ever,
they didn't know that because I hadn't been able to generate the
kind of paper work, references, etc that the people I knew in
college were getting. I always did well on the phone interviews for
a job,but when i showed up in person for the face to face
interview things changed rather rapidly for the worse. So I don't
have much respect for the so-called high and mighty work ethecs the
state agencies push either as it obviously isn't helping. I could go
back to school, get a better computer science degree, but would it
really and truely help?
dark wrote:
I admit I'm a litle jaded on the work subject, sinse I've seen too
many cases of blind people who have nothing but a high education,
no social abilities, and just endlessly apply for jobs to be given excuses.
Sinse employers cannot legally say "we're worried about employing a
visually impared person" this also means they just kmake up excuses.
My brother sent out 100 cvs a month for 8 years, trying to get a
job in law, and was told wonderful things like "your not qualified
for this position" when the position in question asked for two
A-levels, --- ie, a basic ending of school qualification, ----
where he was applying with a law degree and a legal practice course.
Before this turns into too much of a wrant I'll stop, ---- suffice
it to say while I understand the work ethic atitude, ---- it's one
which strikes me as incredibly pointless in a country where eighty
percent of blind people are unemployed, ----- and I'd be willing to
bet that probably 15 of the last 20 percent are employed by
organizations specifically geared towards blind people like the rnib.
Luckily, ---- I don't care about being employed, ---- i JUST WANT
TO WRITE! IF SOMEONE WILL PAY ME FOR THAT, ---- GREAT! IF NOT, ----
WELL NEVER MIND.
i FREELY ADMIT i'M NOT IN ANY WAY AMBICIOUS THOUGH.
bEWARE THE GRUE!
dARK.
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