RE: Common Jobs for VI Programmers
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:28:48 -0700
I am currently working as an Computer consultant /IT/ all around tech guy at
a disability resource centre. You might say that doesn't have anything to
do with coding but when I got here There idea of keeping track of clients
meant having excel, Access, Word, and a scratch pad all at the same time to
do one job. I spend a lot of time writing little applications for those
people here in the office making their job much easier. I also run my own
company if you go to www.blinksoft.com you will see what my little company
does in my small town area. Again reading it you might think that has
nothing to do with coding. You would be surprised the number of times I
have had to write small applications for people to make their computer life
at home easier. I am also working with a group write now designing an
application that could be world known in a few years. I am 100% blind and
while I don't work in a monkey code creation shop I do code quite a bit and
while I might get paid sporadically I enjoy every job I do.
Ken
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Veli-Pekka
Tätilä
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 6:01 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Common Jobs for VI Programmers
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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