I'll have to add to this Network engineering. For what it's worth, I just took a new job today believe it or not with Juniper Networks. They seem very interested in accessibility of their products and also very open to hiring blind engineers. THey have a pile of openings. If you or anyone has the technical skills it might be a good angle. As John said also Unix is a definite possibility. I don't know any good Unix admins that are out of work, far from it in fact and the command line remains one of your more accessible options. On Feb 13, 2013, at 5:20 PM, John G. Heim <jheim@math.wisc.edu> wrote:
Are you thinking about changing jobs? They say you should never wait until you get sacked before looking for another job. What about linux system administration? I don't know what it's like where you are but around here, linux systems admins can pick their job. Do you know anything about math? Math programming jobs are hot right now. Finance, genetics, weather forecasting, they're all getting heavily into using math to solve problems. Of course, I live in high-tehc heaven here in Madison, Wisconsin. Well, it's no Silicon Valley but there is a lot going on here.
On 2/13/2013 11:39 AM, Darragh OHeiligh wrote:
Hugely dissappointing doesn't come close to what it is.
Seriously. I keep saying this on this list. Am I alone in my experience? I said a few months ago that I'm running out of systems. It's only gettting worse now! SCOM 2012 and SCCM 2012 are a right off. Considering I was the main administrator of these systems in the 2007 version that's two more systems that I can no longer administer.
So. lets look at the past year. Secure web gateway. lost last year. Secure mail gateway. Lost about six months ago. Diskeeper 12 clients. Lost three months ago. Whats up gold. lost access to the alerts console last year. Zenprise. Just implemented. Hundreds of unlabeled buttons. VSphere 5.1. Lots of unlabeled buttons. Web based version is no bettter. HP EVA. Tree view is partially broken since last update 2 months ago.
Now, last year I was in a team of two. The other person was quite new and I was taking on the bulk of the work. He had the simple things like group policy and active directory. Now, one of the people who used to work here has come back. That in itsself is brilliant because he has a lot of experience and he took over from the newby. We have another person on the team now. He's been promoted from the service desk. I'm absolutely delighted for him. He deserves the promotion and the oppertunity.
However, within no time he'll be passed the newby jobs and he'll be looking at the interesting systems.
I used to read about people on various lists where they'd find that gradually systems became less accessible and after some time they'd simply find themselves surpluss to requirements.
I am in danger of this happening to me at this stage.
I don't have many systems left. I'm deliberitly holding back projects and upgrades because the new systems aren't accessible to me.
So, tell me. What would you do in my situation?
Regards
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From: "Barry Toner" <Barry.Toner@clanmil.org.uk> To: "Blind sysadmins list" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>, Date: 13/02/2013 17:28 Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] SCCM 2012. What a surprise Sent by: "Blind-sysadmins" <blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org>
Thanks for the warning.
That's hugely disappointing.
Barry
-----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [ mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh OHeiligh Sent: 13 February 2013 17:12 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] SCCM 2012. What a surprise
So, Today was my first day really using SCCM 2012.
Unfortunately, if your thinking of using it, just forget about it.
It The Ribbin isn't accessible. Neither is the summary list on the bottom of the screen. There are a huge number of tab stops but yet you cant access the bottom left of the screen. Tab stops seem to be randem. The tab control gets focus in the most unusual situations. Oh, and the great thing? The stupid Jaws cursor doesn't work in the application.
Why is it that more and more applications are becoming inaccessible? Is it just me who is having more problems? Think about it! More applications written in Java, Installers aren't accessible. More so now than ever.
So, either screen reader developers aren't keeping up with modern technologies or companies who make these products are doing absolutely nothing when it comes to accessibility.
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