As a person with visual impairment, true inclusion means feeling part of society, accessing work, educational and recreational opportunities, being able to express my ideas freely, and acquire and generate new knowledge. In short, live.
Inclusion is not something that depends only on society or only on people with disabilities, it is a collective construction. For this to be possible, there must be accessible tools, opportunities and trust.
Accessible tools allow us to access, learn, share and generate knowledge. Accessibility is a right and it is transversal to the different areas and aspects.
They can be technological resources; physical spaces adapted so that everyone can study or work there; explain content in different ways in educational settings; implement accessible resources at work, such as task management tools or software that can be used with a screen reader, captioning in meetings, etc.
In addition to these tools, it is necessary to have opportunities to access education and enter the labor market to be able to demonstrate that we are as apt to occupy places of responsibility as those people who do not have any disability.
In 2019 Nahual IT provided the first Testing course for visually impaired people. Taking that training allowed me to start working as a Tester. Thus came new training related to accessibility (that is, that the websites and applications of public or private organizations be accessible to anyone with a permanent or temporary disability, or with some cultural, language, generational barrier, etc.). In April 2020 the Accessibility area was born in Nahual IT and, with it, a team of seven people was formed, of which two have visual disabilities and another partner, hearing disabilities.
In July of this year, Nahual IT trusted me and gave me the opportunity to coordinate the Accessibility Area of the company.
And here we come to the last element and not for that less important, the trust. It is essential to trust ourselves and the projects we carry out for society to trust us.
When all these factors are present we build a more inclusive world and accessible.
I could, I can. And one of my main purposes (that is why I dare to write these lines) is to show other people with disabilities that, if society supports us, if they accompany us and we have the will and confidence in ourselves, IT CAN BE.
Leader of the Accessibility area of Nahual IT
Source From: Ambito
