[access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers

  • From: "Tony" <tonys_groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:26:04 +0100

I'm horrified, absolutely horrified.

So why aren't organisations who claim to represent the blind making a huge
fuss about this?



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martin wilsher
Sent: 30 July 2009 18:04
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: action for blind people employment officers

HIBarbra and all.

I am in a similar situation to will, and have gone for job interviews and
also have gone on govt schemes to help get into work.  Now let me relay aa
few stories.  I went on the new deal for disabled people.  The DEA basically
threw me at employers and said, the law says you cannot discriminate, so
employ him.  Most employers were enthusiastic until they actually had to do
soemthing to help me over and above their usual, then they binned me, after
about three days in one case.  Then I went on another scheme that afbp told
me was accessible to blind.  Turned out they weren't, and that they were in
it for the EU money.  I went in dressed in a suit, with laptop, copy of jaws
on pendrive, for SATOGO and SA weren't known to me then, and with NRA in
hand.  I was first asked, where's your carer, then when I told them I'd
lived on my own for years, they dropped that question.  I explained about
jaws for windows, and about what it was.  They wouldn't let me install it.
In the end, I had to jobsearch with my own computer.  They could not even
make the course amterials in accessible format.  About the only thing this
place did was give me funding to do voluntary work with a riding stable.
Now they were meant to come to the stable to check I was actually doing the
work, and did they?  No.  They were meant to get in touch with my boss, but
tdid they?  No.  I spent six mmonths doing my part of the thing, while they
did nothing.  This was another govt scheme btw, and at one point, they tried
to claim that giving me an ethernet cable to allow me to connect to their
intrnet was accessibily, and they'd complied with the Dda because of this.
Hmm, no.  AFBP blew hot air at this company, but that was it.  And yes, this
was new labour.  I am going for an nvq this september, and I wonder if AFBP
will help me if I get into trouble with access?   Probably not.  

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