[155939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Color vision for network techs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Meuse)
Fri Aug 31 10:24:18 2012
In-Reply-To: <E1T7S0g-0006i9-OE@mailman.nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:23:20 -0400
From: Steve Meuse <smeuse@mara.org>
To: Berry Mobley <berry@gadsdenst.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
You might consider the ADA act before you go too far down this road. I'm no
expert, but it may apply...
-Steve
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Berry Mobley <berry@gadsdenst.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Do any of you do any color vision screening in your interview process? How
> do those of you with color vision impairments compensate? I'd never
> considered this until I was in one of our facilities with my son (who has
> limited color vision) and we had a discussion about the LEDs. He could only
> determine on/off - not amber/red/green on the equipment we had. I'm
> wondering if we need a color vision requirement (or test) as part of our
> hiring requirements.
>
> Berry Mobley
>
>
>
