Does blind work on mainframes?

[Om Prakash]

Hi,

The question is sensitive to me and I ask it here. Does blind work on mainframes? Or are there some arrangements which can be made them to learn mainframes? Please share your piece of thought.

[enrico-sorichetti]

what makes You think that learning IT activities on mainframes 

programming
DATABASE related
administration 
security
debugging 
analisys
...

should be different from learning the same on any other platform ?
the technicalities might be different, but the overall approach will be similar

[Robert Sample]

I've worked for companies where blind people were doing mainframe programming -- in COBOL even.  There's not really anything special about the mainframe in this regard -- in fact, the use of 3270 green screens might even make it simpler than a GUI-based programming language.

[Om Prakash]

Thanks. I have one of my known who has shown his ambition to work on mainframes. But he is blind. I am not aware of anyone in this and working with mainframes or computers.

I shall search to see what can be the additional requirements for such a programmer.