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Different disabilities will have different needs and remedies. What a blind person needs will very much differ from what I need. Related, but I've done a littl
by Kagerjay 8y ago
Different disabilities will have different needs and remedies. What a blind person needs will very much differ from what I need.
Related, but I've done a little bit of work with a nonprofit specialized in helping visually impaired / blind people get jobs.
Its actually requires a potentially complex solution. Website needs to have full ARIA / disability text in mind to use with NVDA screen readers. There's alot more UX and userstories in mind when it comes to building a solution for this. Not only that, a traditional job board does not really suffice IMO. It needs to be a full blown support network at least with visually impaired people in mind, there's 2 major organizations AFAIK that do this in america. The organizations does webcam-based interviews with these users, similar to more next upcoming Gen Z type hiring solutions.
I think disability job boards is interesting, but really its not that much different from a remote job for most people. Hiring companies that are accepting of flexible remote jobs are most likely equally accepting to people with nonvisually impaired or nondeaf based job board, because in the end it really doesn't make a difference to them from their perspective.
A remote job is the same, its wheel chair accessible but it does require more flexible hours. But it really shouldn't matter if you still get stuff done, and have async meeting standups, etc
Its important to note that visual impairment has a very wide spectrum of users. You have to seperate out how bad the impairment is, some can see things in low light, others have been blind from birth, while some have lost sight later in life. These drastically change userstories.
What a deaf person needs will very much differ from both those scenarios.
Visually impaired users require a much more sophisticated solution, deaf impairment I would argue not as much. They can still read a screen and communicate via slack etc, but issues with standup meetings etc.
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So the way I see it is thusly, with respect to different disability categories
- Physically impaired - same as remote jobs, but companies should have meetups done asynchronously
- Visually impaired - a company that is okay with someone completely remote and has support for aria across all the job needs. Job duties need to be very consistent, cannot be too flexible (e.g. startups)
- Hearing impaired - a company that is okay with communicating purely by slack, or accomodating this specific user with slack meeting notes, etc.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoThank you for this good information. I have sent a link to your comment to a Google Group I co-own for blind developers. (I'm not blind, though I do have really lousy eyesight that can't really be corrected. I'm also not a developer per se.)
- Kagerjay 8y agoNo problem :)