Deaf Contracting

[EternalOptimist]

I'm deaf in one ear? Does that count?

hereditary or illness ?

[gingerjedi]

The other chap (now a senior manager) had a guide dog which sat under his desk all day. He had some software which magnified the characters on his screen to massive size, and on a 21" monitor he could read a short word.

Supernova? I had to do some support for I guy who had that, it's near impossible to navigate around the screen with 3 inch high characters, he also had a audio tool that read his email at a ridiculous speed, full of bugs if I remember right.

Poor guy was always left to last as no-one wanted the hassle.

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hereditary or illness ?

niether my mum had preeclampsia.....

[chef]

niether my mum had preeclampsia.....

to save all those that dont have a clue what that is

from wikipedia
"Pre-eclampsia (US: preeclampsia) is a medical condition where hypertension arises in pregnancy (pregnancy-induced hypertension) in association with significant amounts of protein in the urine. Because pre-eclampsia refers to a set of symptoms rather than any causative factor, it is established that there are many different causes for the syndrome."

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hereditary or illness ?

unless you were refering to the contracting?

[minestrone]

Brian Wilson is deaf in one ear.

I have often wondered if there are one armed contractors.

[Doggy Styles]

I had a deaf project manager once. He read lips pretty well. He was good at managing.

He met his wife at some deaf school and their kids are deaf too. He said when the family used to go out, sometimes people thought they were lunatics because their speech is a bit strange and they wave their arms about a lot. He found that funny.

He's a good man, great sense of humour, and I enjoyed working with him.

[ba55meister]

I've never met deaf contractors but plenty of daft ones

[C5/6]

Slightly different situation with me, I'm wheelchair bound and my hands are affected so that I'm pretty much a one finger typist (but IDE's cut down the amount of typing needed these days).

I know I've not got contracts because of this, but now I've got a reasonably good experience an prooved myself I don't think it's too much of an obstickle.

I think if you need adaptions/support companies won't be willing to supply these for contractors, but if it doesn't really effect the way you work on a day to day basis. Probably boils down to how good is your lip reading & speech?

Edit: please god let me have got affect/effect the right way round before the grammar nazis torch me.

[NotAllThere]

I have never met a deaf contractor. Does such a beastie exist ? Is it possible to do the biz in IT if you are deaf ??




just wondering

I have worked with a deaf contractor. She could lip read, and had a "hearing dog". The latter part caused some issues with our French project - because the French have dogs for the blind, but not for the death - but she'd done such a good job on the UK project, that these objects were not insurmountable.