Here's the rub: Even perfectly written, experienced blind people with a glowing resume sent straight from HR's wet dreams doesn't mean anything when they see you're blind.

A lot of it is prejudice, whether presumed incompetence or cost of accomodation, sometimes because proprietary software is inaccessible. It's nothing logical that keeps blind people down, just assumptions.

The unemployment rates for blind people are very disturbing. So here are a few ideas that may assist:
1. Mentorship - ensure that your workplace takes steps to mentor blind people and offer them the opportunity to explore roles. Too often blind people are not given the opportunity to excel.
2. Training - work with a local blind organization to offer courses for blind students. Basic programming courses in Swift, Python, etc can build confidence and understanding.
3. Work with existing projects that provide quality software for free or low cost. A great example would be NVDA.
4. Ensure in your work and workplace wcag is followed.

I know you are looking for a specific project and these don't really fit but are often valuable. Here is a tangible specific software idea as well. Braille literacy has been correlated to rates of blind unemployment. Correlation is not causation but I believe it is a factor. Writing a program that teaches UEB and works with a braille display may be valuable. Here is a link to a UEB typing teaching tool
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/braille-tutor/id1082934024?mt=8

It would be nice if something like this worked with ios on-screen braille keyboard and braille displays. An easier task than you might expect. A similar program that reinforces reading braille contractions would be valuable as well.

The issues of unemployment amongst blind people are huge and difficult to address. Educational neglect, pervasive low expectations, expensive tools, hiring discrimination and institutional barriers as well as many other things contribute.

At this rate, being hired to do one of the dozens of jobs I've been (over)qualified for, applied to, interviewed for, just to be "not selected" would be great. In short, can you write a program that hires me for jobs I am qualified to do? xP

Salesman here.

Anything to make inventory management systems easier, please.

Stuff like Infinity that's required to be used daily for a sales job is nearly impossible. It's to the point where I do my sales, and pass out $20's to whoever helps me with the final paperwork, $50 if they have to help with contract signing (when something isn't cash), as walking a customer through a docusign link, or even a good old school pen and blood contract isn't possible.

I want to be a politician, to put it crudely. Otherwise I want to do social science research. I know doesn’t sound awesome but there you are. I think that development of an excessible statistics type of program is wonderful like spss. Or something like that, but accessible. I know they use this in psychology, but it is often said that such calculating tools so that social scientists can do their analysis is inaccessible. If you want more blind people in political science or government, these tools have to be made.

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