one more clue, we are looking for a competent IOS developer. who is blind looking for work. email me directly at [email protected] Thanks
Gabe Vega CEO Commtech LLC Web: http://commtechusa.net FaceBook: http://facebook.com/commtechllc Twitter: http://twitter.com/commtechllc Email: [email protected] Phone: (888) 351-5289 ext. 710 Fax: (480) 535-7649 On Nov 3, 2013, at 10:11 AM, B. Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course. The other part of this includes more willingness to back such > projects financially, but the other angle to consider is that so many blind > people are unemployed now. Even if they become pretty good programmers > there's not likely going to be work for them all, and even less traditional > fulltime work. While one is looking for work they could also sharpen their > skills working on the kind of software projects we're talking about here. > Others may be content to dedicate some window of time to this work living on > some kind of disability paymentss, and on the more extreme edge of the > conversation there's the alt economy model. Whether its possible to create a > group with the critical mass of talent and deverse skillset needed to be > sustainable is not one I'm willing to bet on; but I would certainly consider > donating some labor to a person who has made my computer more usable above > and beyond the very limited money I can donate to open-source projects. > While I don't see a revolution in the making, maybe we can see a significant > evolution in thinking and behavior where more users of FOS-access-tech donate > to developers. While there's a long way to go, NVDA has made notable progress > getting donations from end-users over the last few years. > Another thing to consider is that many programmers work on a project basis, > not a salary payed by one company. This means that even very good coders with > contacts and good work habits are likely to have some down time between > projects that they could dedicate to accessibility work, or they could choose > to give a couple weeks here and there to something that interests them. > Get a job with Google and use your discressionary time to improve > g-access...lolThere's nomagic bullet, but I think many of us can organize our > lives better on an individual basis, and we can perhaps create some support > systems making this easier. > -- > B.H. > > > On Sat, Nov 02, 2013 at 04:44:35PM -0500, Christopher Chaltain wrote: >> I agree with this sentiment, but one challenge I see is that it's >> hard to make a living doing accessibility programming. If a blind >> person has the aptitude and becomes a programmer then they may have >> a hard time getting paid to do any accessibility related coding. Of >> course they could do this in their spare time, but then their time >> is constrained and it takes a while to come up to speed on some of >> this access technology infrastructure. >> >> >> On 11/01/2013 07:39 PM, B. Henry wrote: >>> Ah_men! >>> >>> Sadly, neither drugs nor prayer seem to be able to give many blind folk >>> that; and I think we all know of more than a couple bind folks who have >>> both 1 or more degrees and above average inteligence who are unemployed. >>> >>> One alternative is for more of those who have some potential as far as >>> logical thinking and such, and a fair math back ground to learn to code. >>> It's a longer and harder row to hoe, but if enough folks got in to the nuts >>> and bolts of the tech they use so much then most of the money could be >>> taken out of the equation. >>> I have a terrible math background, am over 50 with responsibilities, and a >>> few not very promising hours looking at beginners programing tutorials; so, >>> I''m probably not our boy, but there must be othrs who could really do >>> something. >>> I'm still hoping I can say I've done something real to advance Linux >>> accessibility before I die, but this may not be as concrete as I'd like. >>> On Fri, Nov 01, 2013 at 07:24:25PM -0400, Doug Smith wrote: >>>> No, the thing we need is to become those rich visionaries. How in >>>> infinity can we do it? What is the over night, have nothing to have it >>>> all quick >>>> fix approach to getting blind people into areas of work where they will >>>> have real incomes and earn that kind of money so that each of us might be >>>> willing to put that few million into it. Instead of waiting for someone >>>> else to do it, how in the known universe can we become those people? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I'm serious. Any possible answers that might be doable for all of us? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Doug Smith: Special Agent >>>> S.W.A.T Spiritual Warfare and Advanced Technology >>>> Forever serving our LORD and SAVIOUR, JESUS CHRIST. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility >>>> >>>> >> >> -- >> Christopher (CJ) >> chaltain at Gmail >> > >> -- >> Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility > > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
-- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
