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From: karthik k
Date: Sep 15, 2017 12:14AM

thanks a lot Bryan

It's done in a training institute, not by employer, however the same applies

On 9/14/17, Bryan Garaventa < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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.
> <EMAIL REMOVED>
> 415.624.2709 (o)
> www.LevelAccess.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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
>>> >>> >>> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>>> >>> >>> >>> archives at http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
>>> >>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> thanks and regards,
>> Karthik K
>> Phone, +919060989650
>>
>
>
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>
> thanks and regards,
> Karthik K
> Phone, +919060989650
> > > http://webaim.org/discussion/archives
> > > > > >


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thanks and regards,
Karthik K
Phone, +919060989650