Re: Common Jobs for VI Programmers

Hi,
If you get into a big enough company, the division between programmers and designers is also made among sighted people. some sighted people are also not god at doing layouts. 

Jim
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Marlon Brandão de Sousa" <splyt.lists@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 9:40 AM
Subject: Re: Common Jobs for VI Programmers


Well,
I agree with you. I can draw screens if I wish but I have never been
sighted so I don't feel ... very well ... if I have to design it. I am
not able to put myself in the place of a sigted one and figure out
what one would find great or very bad in terms of grahpical stuff. I
do work as a programmer, mainly making classes and components to be
used by other folks, in areas that don't evolve graphics, as for
example developping database routins wrappers or some algorithm or
task which is not visually related. I also worked with web
developement, in a kind of mvc stuff (I was a little inexperiensed and
it could be better but it is working), doing the model and some parts
of the controller also, working with a sigted web designer. I think
blind folks are likely to be confortable making daemons / services and
writting all kinds of low level stuff ...
I like the idea of services running and being controlled by a web
interface or by another software which will use pipe or socket
comunications to interact with it ... no problem, blinds build the
service and provide an programmatic interface, other folks do the nice
setting screens and such ...
hth
Marlon

2007/9/28, Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi,
Note: This is a slightly edited version of an off-list post I made.

I'd like to have some stats on what kind of jobs blind programmers do in
general, not what could be done, but what are the most common jobs and why? I've heard about assembler programming, embedded C stuff, sysadmin, writing 
automated tests and so on. Another possibility might be SymbianOs
programming, since mobile phones are a very big thing here, and the GUis are still built programmatically or by writing resource script by hand, I think. 

I've been considerring trying to get a programming related
job once I finnish my MSC which will take this year and a large chunk of the 
next one. Since it seems sighted folks can draw graphical GUis much faster
than I can draw them magnified, or even lay out them programmatically, is it worth it trying to get a job that mainly involves b2b GUI programming in the 
dot
NET domain? This is what most firms are pushing nowadays here in FInland,
Oulu, it seems.

Seeing how visual Visual Studio is going
these days has made me a bit .reluctant toward really digging into it,
especially as I don't currently use Jaws, and thus cannot benefit from the
many scripts made for it here. I'm also worried about UMl for good reason,
although diagramming software is getting all the more accessible, e.g.
DeepView. HOwabout usability? Testing is going to be hard, since you cannot rely on videos, and really cannot moderate a sighted person, unless you have 
a screen reader or something.

I tried usability testing at the Uni, and
greatly enjoyed typing in content logs, transcribing and was the guy who
found virtually all of the accessibility blunders, and many violations of
basic GUI design rules, in heuristic evaluation,
as well.
Any input would be greatly appreciated. I'd also appreciate any papers about 
blind programmers' employement if the stuff has been researched.

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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila/

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