Feedback On Jobs (ex Re: eBook Accessibility)
- From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2005 16:51:10 -0000
(added programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Hi Peter,
Thanks for the good news on those publishers. It seems as though a lot more
technical content is becoming accessible, and I'm discussing the possibility
of having ebook versions of MS Press titles with Microsoft.
On your choice of career paths, there's three things that stand out from
what you have told me. Obviously, you have a strong background in I.T.
infrastructure, and this is an area where companies will always need people.
There's two prospects here, firstly, due to the improved support offered by
JAWS for remote clients, this may make the standard network administration
jobs more accessible than they previously have been. The second option,
would be to consider becoming a consultant on I.T. infrastructure. This
would be a consultancy position, maybe even a full time position depending
on the size of the company, and would involve designing I.T. architectures
for specific projects. It's more on the design side of hardware than the
physical implementation side, but can involve issues such as legacy hardware
and software and application interoperability, as well as hardware design
and deployment strategies. This is one area where big corperations and
governments need specialists. So, there's plenty of opportunity there.
The next idea is based on your knowledge of I.T. projects. There's a couple
of key standards relating to process improvement, namely ISO-9000 and the
SEI-CMM. ISO-9000 is a must for any supplier of I.T. solutions wishing to
tender for I.T. contracts with most governments and large corperations. By
achieving level 5 of ISO-9000 a supplier of I.T. solutions can demonstrate
it has high quality processes in creating it's solutions. SEI-CMM performs
a similar function, although industry has not taken the interest in this as
they have ISO-9000. So, you could consider becoming a consultant on process
improvement and or, project management, for the I.T. suppliers wishing to
gain ISO-9000 or SEI-CMM certification. You could also consult on project
management for those suppliers who do not wish to gain certification, but
who wish to change or implement their processes.
The third is an area in which I'm a researcher. As you have knowledge of
psychology, you may consider usability and human computer interaction. The
aim of HCI, is to try to determine how people will use computer interfaces,
find problems with designs, suggest fixes for the designs, and sometimes,
design the initial interfaces based on knowledge of user characteristics and
how users work. This is an area that is getting increasing attention
certainly from the big vendors such as Microsoft, IBM, Sun, etc. It has not
really penetrated down to the smaller I.T. companies yet, but there's quite
a few HCI consultancy companies offering services to web designers. As each
web page is just another interface with which the user has to interact it
offers the potential for usability and HCI assessment and improvement. So,
there's a pretty big potential market for human computer consultants,
providing you can persuade web designers and software developers that
building their interfaces based on how users work is the right design
decision. Also, it's worth noting that human computer interaction also
encompasses accessibility.
Those are just three areas where I would consider looking. By no means is
it an exhaustive list, and they offer the opportunity to either be a
consultant or an employee.
BTW. You guessed right, I am an MVP for development, although as well as
doing development I do HCI research and consultancy as well.
Thanks,
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: "peter op 't Hof" <opthofp@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: eBook Accessibility
> Will,
>
> Your observations are right.
> Same goes for McGraw.Hill (books in CHM), Premier Press and Prentice Hall.
> With books i have no problem and for secure files i use now Acrobat Reader
> 7, which is highly improved.
>
> But an other thing caches my ear.
> In your disclaimer i saw you are a MVP.
> In the past i have donne the MCSE and CNE-traject and for the last years i
> have donne work like designing concepts for infrastructure and such.
> Because my contract with my current firm is ended on may 2005 i have to
> orientate myself on the marcket again.
> Motivation enough.
> I am a father of a happy family.
>
> I guess you are a MVP for developement.
> I have started as a programmer in the Dosenviroment but changed my way up
in
> applicationmanagement, Networkspeciallist and now cunsultant.
>
> With Jaws i can do many things but some remote tasks (like take over of a
> console) i can not handle with it.
>
> I would like to have some feed-back of you which path with Jaws in mind i
> have to choose.
> Knowledge for Windows 2003 is no problem.
> I can do a certivicationtraject but over several years i have to do the
same
> again.
> I am 38 years old so it is now the time to do something strategic.
> My experience with projects, ITIL and PRINCE2 are enough so perhaps SAP-
or
> Business-Consultant is a good suggestion.
> (what about the accessibility?)
>
> I also have donne some psychology and can manage relationships with
> customers very well.
> I have noticed that when i continnue the Microsoft MCSE-traject i bounce
on
> the fact that i cannot do everything the same or not at all as a seeing
> person.
> With the exams i think there are now possibilities to get questions
without
> pictures.
> When i did the traject in 1998 i had a problem with pictures on the
> Networking Technologies Module.
>
> Could you give me some thoghts?
>
> (sorry for the bad English)
>
> Greetings,
>
> Peter.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Will Pearson" <will-pearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> <Programming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 10:42 PM
> Subject: eBook Accessibility
>
>
> > Hi;
> > I've just downloaded a few e-books from Amazon, and thought I would
notify
> > you of the current state of affairs, as books are useful in a range of
> > situations.
> >
> > Whilst Adobe still allow content publishers to disallow content
extraction
> > by access technology, meaning screen readers won't be able to read books
> > that have had this option disallowed, more publishers are allowing it.
I
> > downloaded about three books published by John Wiley and son. All these
> > had content extraction by access technology allowed, which was something
> > Wiley turned off in their e-books only six or so months ago. So, it
looks
> > like Wiley books are now accessible, as well as those from some smaller
> > publishers.
> >
> > Whilst persuading publishers to allow access is a difficult task, and
one
> > Adobe should have taken the lead on by not allowing them to disable
> > content extraction by access technology, it does seem as some of the big
> > publishers are now gaining social consciences.
> >
> > Will Pearson
> > Microsoft MVP
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