| November 2012: The Oracle Scholarship for Excellence in Computer Science
In conjunction with the National Federation of the Blind, Oracle is pleased to announce a scholarship of $3,000 for a legally blind student in the field of Computer Science, Computer Engineering, User Experience, or related field. Oracle seeks to hire the best and brightest talent to build our products, basing our employment decisions only on merit, experience, and potential. With more than 390,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, we recognize the significant impact that our products and technologies can have on people with disabilities. For full details of the scholarship, including eligibility requirements and application instructions, see https://nfb.org/scholarships July 2011: Oracle Presenting at NFB Convention
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. Their annual National Convention is traditionally the largest disability conference of its kind, drawing more than 3,000 blind people from across the US. As part of Oracle's Accessibility Program, we have a close relationship with the NFB, and have been a proud sponsor of the convention since 2008. Oracle will also be presenting at the convention, July 7, 7:30 PM, The Impact of Oracle Products in Education and the Workplace. March 2010: Oracle sessions at CSUN
Oracle will be presenting in several sessions at CSUN, the Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, organized by California State University, Northridge: - March 24, 8:00 AM: AEGIS update—the first 18 months of the project
- March 24, 12:30 PM: Simulating vision impairments for Java/Swing developers using the NetBeans IDE
- March 25, 1:50 PM: Topics in Java and OpenDocument Accessibility
- March 25, 1:50 PM: Lessons Learned While Making a Web 2.0 Enterprise Application Accessible
August 2009: The Promise of Accessibility
The August issue of Profit magazine features the story The Promise of Accessibility, highlighting the collaboration between Oracle and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). Published quarterly, Profit provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages. Mark Riccobono and Anne Taylor, executives of the NFB, explain the goals of their organization, and how the accessibility of Oracle products allow NFB members to seek employment opportunities and fully participate in the information age. July 2009: Oracle sponsors the National Federation of the Blind Youth Slam
Oracle is a proud sponsor of the Youth Slam, an event designed to engage, inspire, and encourage the next generation of blind youth to consider careers falsely believed to be impossible for the blind. Two hundred blind and low vision students from all across the country will attend this five-day adventure, where they will be mentored by blind role models during fun and challenging activities designed to build confidence and increase science literacy. Participants will also have the opportunity to attend workshops on topics such as leadership, career preparation, and blindness. October 2008:
The Accessibility Program Office held 'Accessibility Days' at the Redwood Shores campus, to promote accessibility awareness across the company. Employees were shown demonstrations of various assistive technology including screens readers and screen magnifiers, as well as testing tools that have been developed for in-house use. Subject matter experts in the areas of Usability, Testing, VPATs, and Program Management were on hand to answer the questions of the more than 500 attendees. October was chosen as the kick-off month for these events because it is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and Oracle products play a key role in the ability of our more than 320,000 customers to employ persons with disabilities. July 2008: Oracle and the National Federation of the Blind announce Center of Excellence for Enterprise Computing
At the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) in Dallas, Texas, Oracle announced a collaboration with the NFB focusing on Enterprise Computing. A new Center of Excellence at the Jernigan Institute is designed to improve accessibility of enterprise applications. Increased employment opportunities in technology, better training and education programs, new technical software solutions, and awareness are just a few of the expected benefits. Read more about the Center of Excellence at: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/accessibility/center-of-excellence-176424.html. February 2008: Oracle Helps Bring Science To Life For Blind Youth
Oracle and the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) Jernigan Institute's National Center for Blind Youth in Science (NCBYS) today announced that they will work together to help open the door for young scientific explorers. As part of this collaboration, Oracle will help fund the NCBYS's first Youth in Science's 2008 Junior Science Academy (JSA) as a way to make science come to life for blind students across the United States. Read the entire article at: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/016010_EN. December 2007: Oracle Shanghai and Nanjing Volunteers Leave Lasting Legacy with School of the Blind
As part of Oracle Global Volunteer Days (GVD) 2007, nearly 110 volunteers from the Oracle Shanghai and Nanjing offices, along with their family and friends, participated in a two-part project for the School of the Blind Children in Shanghai. For the first part of the volunteer project, 56 Oracle employees recorded 10 audio books with a total recorded length of 3,350 minutes. Teachers at the school created the book list, which included well-known stories to both interest and educate the children. To make the books more vivid, some of the volunteers included their kids and parents in the recording to provide a diversity of voices. These recorded books will benefit numerous students now and for years to come. The second part of the project, 81 Oracle volunteers (including 29 of the volunteers who recorded the audio books), visited the school to play games and read stories to the students. Each year, Oracle holds its annual Global Volunteer Days, a two week long initiative to encourage volunteerism, celebrate Oracle employees' year-round service in their respective communities, and maximize the impact of Oracle's commitment to social responsibility. For more information about GVD, visit: http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/citizenship/038110.htm. November 2007: Technology opens new worlds of opportunity to blind and visually impaired techies
Darryl Presley, a member of the Server Technologies group at Oracle, was recently interviewed by Diversity Careers Magazine for its article 'Technology opens new worlds of opportunity to blind and visually impaired techies'. October 2007: New Support access for hearing impaired customers
Oracle Support is pleased to announce more streamlined phone support access for hearing impaired customers. Customers may now call an AT&T Customer Assistant by dialing 711 or 1-800-855-2880 who will then serve as a relay between the caller and Oracle Support at 1-800-223-1711. Complete instructions for using the AT&T Relay service can be found here: http://www.consumer.att.com/relay/tty/standard2.html. Once in contact with Oracle Support an engineer will handle technical issues according to normal service request handling processes. October 2007: National Disability Employment Awareness month
Don Mauck, Oracle Accessibility Evangelist, was a co-emcee for the Colorado coalition for Persons with Disabilities conference, which took place as part of National Disability Employment Awareness month. Don was asked to do this by the local non-profit group "Families and Allies," which provides many services to adult persons with disabilities. Besides being the emcee, Don started the morning session by singing the National Anthem (in his spare time, Don is an actor with the group PHAMALy, which stands for Physically Handicapped Actors and Musical Artists League.) Don was also the emcee for the coalition's annual fund raising event. July 2007: Presentation at the NFB National Conference
Don Raikes, Oracle Accessibility Specialist, attended the National Federation for the Blind annual conference in Atlanta, Georgia. He presented an overview of how Oracle has improved its accessibility over the last seven years to the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) in Computer Science session. Don's presentation included a demonstration of an Oracle ADF web application illustrating the use of javascript on the web and how it can be accessible. Don also addressed Oracle's approach to accessibility as "standards-based". | 
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