Developer who’s visually impaired finds career rebirth using Oracle APEX paid Oracle
Vladimir Goncharov wasn't born blind, but he's been losing his eyesight progressively since early childhood. As an adult, his developer career has involved learning new workarounds to stay ahead of his failing sight due to retinitis pigmentosa—like using bold type, then white-on-black type, then big monitors, and finally screen readers.
, which lets people quickly build and deploy data-centric apps. Inspired by people like Goncharov, we’re sharing a series of these APEX-fueled career stories hoping they’ll help people think about their own tech careers.Goncharov was born in Novomoskovsk, 230 kilometers south of Moscow. Throughout his high school and college years, he sat in the front row of classrooms so he could see what was written on the blackboard.
Goncharov lost the senior Oracle developer job at the ice cream plant when he couldn’t get a new, government-required registration. Goncharov’s next 20 years would be marked by uncertainty and upheaval—fueled by a combination of Russia’s unrest and change, career detours, and the consequences of steadily going blind.After the ice cream plant, Goncharov worked as an Oracle developer for a systems integrator and software development firm that went broke in the 2001 global recession.
"In those days, I tried to hide my disability. If my employer knows I am blind, they would replace me," Goncharov says. Goncharov recalls how several years ago, Anthony Rayner, a software developer and accessibility lead on the Oracle APEX team, began making accessibility changes that helped Goncharov build and update Oracle APEX applications more easily. During one exchange with Rayner, Goncharov explained he was blind and having trouble with the screen reader he used to read text, a problem he assumed to be an Oracle APEX issue. Rayner suggested, which eliminated the problem.
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