You won't make the world's greatest salary, but you'll work with the world's greatest people -- AND you'll be on the side of the angels in the fight against corporate domination of the information universe.
Join the librarians! You'll be glad you did. Even in spite of the Michael Gormans of the world.
Yes, yes, yes, it is true that open-source software has done a terrible job of catering to the visually-impaired. I have a visually-impaired friend who complains constantly about this.
It is not, however, entirely OSS's fault. Screen-reader developers have been working from IE for the longest time. One suspects that had OSS advocates started leaning on them, matters might have improved... but hey, it's never too late.
Maybe I'm missing something tearingly obvious here... but everyone seems to be assuming either an emulation layer or totally rewriting the Windows version of Office.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to start from the version written for OSX?
That assumes that profit centers are allowed to be what they are.
I worked one place that intentionally underbid work in my area. "We don't really do X; we're a Y company" was the rationale. People actually got nervous when I pulled off a job that turned out to be 80-90% profit, after costs. (Yeah. I really did. Surprised me more than anyone.)
I left when the management of that area changed, and the new manager was more interested in building a personal fief (and turning his supervisees into serfs) than getting us some bloody damn respect.
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You won't make the world's greatest salary, but you'll work with the world's greatest people -- AND you'll be on the side of the angels in the fight against corporate domination of the information universe.
Join the librarians! You'll be glad you did. Even in spite of the Michael Gormans of the world.
Yes, yes, yes, it is true that open-source software has done a terrible job of catering to the visually-impaired. I have a visually-impaired friend who complains constantly about this.
It is not, however, entirely OSS's fault. Screen-reader developers have been working from IE for the longest time. One suspects that had OSS advocates started leaning on them, matters might have improved... but hey, it's never too late.
Not if writing code causes intense pain. In that case it's a choice between speaking code slowly and creating no code at all.
I hope this ends up meaning open-source voice-recognition. I do hope it does.
(says a double-crush sufferer under major physical therapy)
Maybe I'm missing something tearingly obvious here... but everyone seems to be assuming either an emulation layer or totally rewriting the Windows version of Office.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to start from the version written for OSX?
Sigh. When your entire business is your spare bedroom, believe me -- size matters.
(Double entendre wholly intentional.)
That assumes that profit centers are allowed to be what they are.
I worked one place that intentionally underbid work in my area. "We don't really do X; we're a Y company" was the rationale. People actually got nervous when I pulled off a job that turned out to be 80-90% profit, after costs. (Yeah. I really did. Surprised me more than anyone.)
I left when the management of that area changed, and the new manager was more interested in building a personal fief (and turning his supervisees into serfs) than getting us some bloody damn respect.