I think the answer to this is definitely yes. I have found networking equipment to be very accessible through out the years. The major providers (Cisco and Juniper) have very accessible interfaces on most of their products. Unix environments are another place you can do well. As someone else mentioned you can use common tools like SSH instead of complicated screen reader remote desktop hacks. Database administration is another. Anything where there’s complex text based interaction you can do well and on equal footing. Someone was arguing that we shouldn’t focus on the command line. I’d argue that’s good for all of us sited or otherwise. Even in my company we argue about this all the time for all users not just the blind. Command line interfaces have clear advantages and are here for the foreseeable future. You talk to any of the network architects for the large carrier networks around the world, sited, blind or otherwise and they will all function in command line environments. My employer bases it’s entire existence around a command line environment called JunOS. Cisco has IOS and XR etc. The interface I use is the same all the other engineers use so things are much simpler than having to try to relate in a GUI environment. That’s my experience though, others may disagree and feel strongly so your milage may vary. On Nov 4, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Chris Smart <csmart8@cogeco.ca> wrote:
As someone currently taking IT courses in hopes of finding meaningful PAID work, is there an area of the computer industry that is less proan to accessibility challenges than others? Is there an area I can go into where the tools are more likely to be accessible, or even where lots of commandline and other non-graphical knowledge is a definite asset and would get me a leg up on the point-and-click sighted competition?
That's probably a pipe dream, but I thought I would ask here anyway. Good information is hard to come by.
Chris
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