Show HN: Handicareers.com – A simple job board for disabled people
As a person with a disability myself (legally blind), I have a couple of concerns with this idea.<p>First, the category of people with disabilities is quite broad. There are not only different categories of disability, but also a broad spectrum of severity for any given disability. Why would an employer post to a job board for people with disabilities in general, except out of a misguided sense of charity, or perhaps to meet some kind of quota?<p>And that brings me to the bigger concern: Why do people with disabilities need a special job board just for us anyway? Surely that is a failure to fully integrate us into mainstream society, which I think is ultimately the best thing for everyone.<p>By the way, though I hate the clunkiness of terminology like &quot;people with disabilities&quot;, I think it&#x27;s justified in this case. For me, the word &quot;disabled&quot;, particularly in the context of employment, has the connotation of being unable to be productive. Some people&#x27;s disabilities are severe enough that that&#x27;s true of them, but that&#x27;s not all of us, not by a long shot. Maybe I&#x27;m being over-sensitive about that, but I&#x27;m just telling you how I see it, for what it&#x27;s worth.