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From: karthik k
Date: Sep 13, 2017 10:29PM

Hi all,

thanks for your valuable comments, I've learned front end development
very recently from a w3c recognized institution, however, i am not
able to do the assignments given by them. say if the assignment is
about html tags or forms, the trainer is just sending images, i don't
even know what's there in the image. how can i proceed
in this case? and, do visually impaired who work as front end
developer face similar challenges? how to overcome this challenge?
can we use any other application to read the image? i think the image
contains a design which is expected to code. Am i correct?On 9/13/17,
Bryan


On 9/14/17, karthik k < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> thanks for your valuable comments, I've learned front end development
> very recently from a w3c recognized institution, however, i am not
> able to do the assignments given by them. say if the assignment is
> about html tags or forms, the trainer is just sending these kind of
> images, i don't even know what's there in the image. how can i proceed
> in this case? and, visually impaired who are working as front end
> developer, face similar challenges? how to overcome this challenge?
> can we use any other application to read this image? On 9/13/17, Bryan
> Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Yes it is possible, though it's important for employers not to expect a
>> blind front end engineer to be able to accomplish all of the same levels
>> of
>> visual design that a sighted person can such as visual styling entails.
>> Unfortunately as a result, many in the field don't think this means that
>> a
>> blind front end engineer can do the same level of work as a sighted one,
>> so
>> they are often overlooked in the job market. This is ironic however,
>> because
>> speaking personally I have skills as a blind front end engineer that only
>> the smallest percentage of the total pool of front end engineers globally
>> have, which is that I know how to make front end components that are
>> guaranteed to be accessible for the simple reason that they have to be in
>> order for me to use them, and I don't see the point of building anything
>> that I can't use myself. So blind front end engineers specialize in the
>> field of functional accessibility where focus management, keyboard
>> functionality, and intuitive user interaction is the most important
>> aspects
>> to concentrate on, whereas in contrast the majority of sighted front
>> engineers focus on sighted and mouse related functionality and are often
>> surprisingly lacking in basic knowledge regarding these skills, which is
>> the
>> primary reason why most of the most popular frameworks and libraries are
>> still inaccessible to this day even though all of these concepts have
>> existed for many years.
>>
>> Here are some tools that I use daily for these tasks.
>> http://dlee.org/bx/bx.htm#intro
>> I use this for DOM rendering analysis when applying CSS, markup
>> examination,
>> and MSAA/UIA accessibility tree examination when applying ARIA and the
>> like.
>>
>> This is a code editor built specifically for blind programmers. I've been
>> using it to write all that I have in the last ten years.
>> https://github.com/jamalmazrui/EdSharp
>>
>> I guess I'm somewhat of a minimalist. Others here can provide additional
>> tools to help.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Bryan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Bryan Garaventa
>> Accessibility Fellow
>> Level Access, Inc.
>> <EMAIL REMOVED>
>> 415.624.2709 (o)
>> www.LevelAccess.com
>>
>>