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Does blind work on mainframes?

Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 12:12 pm
by Om Prakash
Hi,

The question is sensitive to me and I ask it here. Does blind work on mainframes? Or are there some arrangements which can be made them to learn mainframes? Please share your piece of thought.

Re: Does blind work on mainframes?

Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 1:22 pm
by enrico-sorichetti
what makes You think that learning IT activities on mainframes 

programming
DATABASE related
administration 
security
debugging 
analisys
...

should be different from learning the same on any other platform ?
the technicalities might be different, but the overall approach will be similar

Re: Does blind work on mainframes?

Posted: Tue May 03, 2016 7:07 pm
by Robert Sample
I've worked for companies where blind people were doing mainframe programming -- in COBOL even.  There's not really anything special about the mainframe in this regard -- in fact, the use of 3270 green screens might even make it simpler than a GUI-based programming language.

Re: Does blind work on mainframes?

Posted: Wed May 04, 2016 4:51 pm
by Om Prakash
Thanks. I have one of my known who has shown his ambition to work on mainframes. But he is blind. I am not aware of anyone in this and working with mainframes or computers.

I shall search to see what can be the additional requirements for such a programmer.