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From: Bryan Garaventa
Date: Sep 14, 2017 12:16PM


Hi,
Actually if you are receiving images as assignments by your employer, that is a no-starter and guaranteed to give you nothing to work from.

In which case I recommend replying and requesting a plain text representation of what is being requested. There is no image recognition software that will identify what you are supposed to do based on a visual design representation unfortunately and there likely never will be. It is a basic requirement that employers be aware of the specific limitations of people employed by them, in the same way that they should not be asking a person in a wheelchair to climb a ladder and change a light fixture.

Often this is done by people who just didn't think about it first, or weren't aware, so it should never be a problem to ask for clarification. I do this all the time myself. I've found that being absolutely clear about something helps avoid major headaches later.


Bryan Garaventa
Accessibility Fellow
Level Access, Inc.
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415.624.2709 (o)
www.LevelAccess.com

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From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of karthik k
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 9:30 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] visually impaired front end developer

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
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: WebAIM-Forum [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On
>> Behalf Of karthik k
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 9:04 PM
>> To: WebAIM Discussion List < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
>> Subject: [WebAIM] visually impaired front end developer
>>
>> Hi experts,
>>
>> can a totally blind person work as front end developer? is there any
>> front end developer here? if yes, could you please explain some of
>> the challenges that you face? other experts can also explain it in
>> general
>>
>> --
>>
>> thanks and regards,
>> Karthik K
>> Phone, +919060989650
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>> >>
>
>
> --
>
> thanks and regards,
> Karthik K
> Phone, +919060989650
>


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thanks and regards,
Karthik K
Phone, +919060989650