http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=324 Access to technology for all Sun, 01 Apr 2018 16:32:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=324&cpage=1#comment-5422 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:39:21 +0000 http://www.headstar.com/eablive/?p=324#comment-5422 As a Visually Impaired Employee of a Local Authority within Ayrshire, I have to agree that accessible applications are given very little consideration. My Council uses several applications within their Customer Service Contact & I.T Department that are not accessible and even when they updated their software packages no consideration was given to purchasing applications that were accessible. Even within Social Services steps have not been taken to give Visually Impaired Employees access to our client information system “CareFirst” despite the fact that CareFirst is and has been accessible since version 4. Pleople like myself are therefore denied any opportunity of promotion because of such poor attitude towards the needs of disabled employees.

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