This thread is really starting to get annoying.  We can all keep 
complaining about it or get away from our computers and do 
something!

Work part time and have my own business.  Nobody handed me any of 
it.

Ham Radio Guys!!!



> ----- Original Message -----
>From: Michael Thurman <[log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Date sent: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:07:29 -0400
>Subject: Re: bardtalk

>exactly rift! there is NOTHING that requires these asshats to 
make their =
>crap software accessible, and almost as bad is the fact that 
everywhere =
>you go the computers are so locked down that in some cases you 
can't =
>even adjust your speech rate  and save the setting in jaws or 
window =
>eyes!.  OH, and IF you manage to find a vending place and it does 
not get =
>wiped out by a doughnut shop in the lobby,  it will already be 
someone =
>else's turf

>On Oct 18, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Richard Fiorello 
<[log in to unmask]> =
>wrote:

>> 	Hi;
>> I was trying to be on my good behavior but can't resist.  
Personally=20=

>> they should have saved the paper and done something more 
substantial.=20=

>> After I retired in 2007 got board and went looking for a 
retirement =
>job.=20
>>  Didn't want to many hours and didn't need any excess stress.  I 
was=20=

>> primarily looking at call centers since I can talk on the phone 
and =
>use=20
>> a computer.  Guico which you have all seen on the tube has a 
call =
>center=20
>> in the area and never hired a blind person.  A local bank hired 
a girl=20=

>> at their call center who fell in love and left.  I started 
working at=20=

>> something called roswell park cancer institute.  The job would =
>certainly=20
>> not have been my choice for my life's work but this was for 
extra =
>cash.=20
>>  Discovered that lots of their software wouldn't work with 
window-eyes=20=

>> or in some cases they simply refused to try it with window-eyes 
=
>because=20
>> their software had issues and there were concerns that a screen 
reader=20=

>> might make things worse.  There was some of their software that 
was=20
>> usable and I've been doing my part time thing for a while.  
They=20
>> recently came out with a new program and when you go through 
the=20
>> material you have to read there are about four scanned words.  
Why =
>these=20
>> words were scanned in rather than put in via txt is a mystery 
but it=20=

>> made that little project unusable.  There are lots of potential 
jobs =
>out=20
>> there thanks to the computer but companies or hospitals 
especially =
>those=20
>> living on grant money should be required to make their software 
=
>usable.
>> So we have lots of new jobs that in many cases can't be done by 
a =
>blind=20
>> person because of software issues and older jobs that many uf us 
may=20=

>> have never considered such as vending and tuning are going away.  
=
>Don't=20
>> think a vender in a hospital has much of a chance when a 
Duncan=20
>> doughnuts opens in the lobby.
>> To end on a positive note, however, if anyone out there is job =
>shopping=20
>> the trick is to stay in the market and sooner or later something 
will=20=

>> come up.
>> --=20
>> richard