Disabled IT professionals are building access for themselves

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:46:42 GMT

Kes: I'm currently in week 2 of a seven-week web tester training course which is taking all my time and energy--you can read about it here
The Carroll Center Screen Reader User Tester Training Program webpage
https://carroll.org/screen-reader-user-tester-training-program/
--but, as a blind Hermione who has taken *many* online courses over the past two years, I can say that many of them feature inaccessible teaching tools, especially the coding courses. One thing I love about GitHub is that, once you have figued out the interface--and I wrote a help doc for using the interface with a screen reader, so it is pretty accessible--there is no third-party
tools involved, just straightforward menus and buttons.

For visually impaired developers, the tools just aren’t good enough – so they’re taking matters into their own hands

John Loeppky
21 Mar 2022

https://www.itpro.co.uk/security/hacking/363344/vulnerability-hunters-naturally-inquisitive

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Disabled IT professionals are building access for themselves