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 Jul 15, 11, 02:54    #1
Blindness no barrier to employment at Polish call centre


WARSAW — The steady hum of chatter and the clickety-clack of computer keyboards makes it sound like any other call centre but at this Warsaw market research firm, blindness is no barrier to employment.
The operation runs so smoothly that people on the other end of the phone line have no idea that they're dealing with the visually impaired.
And thanks to new technology, the job gets done without a hitch.
"When you click on an icon, the computer tells you what it is. A sighted person can read it while we can hear it," employee Lukasz Chmielewski told AFP...


http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i7hOtH8j-rRkBa09y24 QfNiZMVCw?docId=CNG.7dd169d6f9edbe238e6d180f411016f7.5b1
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 Jul 15, 11, 03:34    #2
skysoulmate:
A sighted person can read it while we can hear it," employee Lukasz Chmielewski told AFP...

That's another barrier broken excellent...
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 Jul 15, 11, 07:11    #3
skysoulmate:
people on the other end of the phone line have no idea that they're dealing with the visually impaired.

That's really awesome. Reminds me of a class I had attended, People With Abilities. The course described some of the challenges and obstacles, that physically and mentally challenged people must sometimes face.

There used to be a government building located in Riverside CA. It had a cafeteria, with a completely blind cashier. He was able to determine the monetary amount of both paper and coin money, that was handed to him. I imagine coins would be easier, because of the ridges. The paper money seemed absolutely fascinating :)

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 Jul 15, 11, 08:55    #4
Until recently I worked with a blind woman. Her job was records research, all of our records are kept on computer. She used an application called JAWS, which talked to her and she had a Braille keyboard. She also had a very positive attitude.



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