Dear list members, Greetings from Eyeway Helpdesk!
We require information and suggestions for one of our helpdesk callers related to accessibility issues he faces in his work due to his blindness. This caller works in a Central School (KVS school) as Lower Divisional Clerk (LDC), where most of his responsibilities involve paper work. His deliverables include maintaining register for incoming and outgoing letters, making school leaving certificate and Bonafide certificate, assist the UDC in financial matters, sending biodata to the regional office of those teachers who are transferred to/from his school, and letter drafting. Amongst all his responsibilities, he is able to make a bonafide certificate most independently as it has to be typed in computer and print it. He is unable to make the Transfer certificates, as it has to be filled in triplicate on a printed format each having a unique number. We suggested him to take help of Prashant Verma to make MS word templates for it. His other work too is partly or wholly using papers where he needs sighted assistance for dictating data from such hard copy. Consequently, most of his work is unwillingly done by an Upper Divisional Clerk (UDC). He is daily busy only for a couple of hours, and only able to assist the UDC by furnishing data in the computer, and doing some sundry jobs such as photocopy, handling admission queries, etc which are not his main deliverables. His difficulties has now increased more because his principal is insisting him to bring assistant at his own cost, but we know that it is the responsibility of the employer to provide reasonable accommodation. What we want to know is though the post of LDC is identified for a blind person in the list issued by the ministry of social justice and empowerment in 2007, but how would a blind person do it given so much inaccessibility in such jobs. What are the possible solutions, how are other blind people working as LDC delivering their responsibilities. How can he be helped in such a situation? You may respond on or off the list, or if required we may talk over the phone as well. Thanks in anticipation! With best regards, Binni Kumari| Helpdesk Executive Trainee Project Eyeway - A knowledge resource for living a fuller life with vision loss C/o Score Foundation, 17/107 L.G.F., Vikram Vihar, Lajpat Nagar - 4, New Delhi - 110024. India. Helpdesk: +91-11-460 70 380 (Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm) Website: www.eyeway.org. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
