# OT: Accessibility: Jana Schroeder's Holman Prize Application

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**Created:** [May 10, 2021, 2:25pm UTC](https://discourse.elm-lang.org/t/ot-accessibility-jana-schroeders-holman-prize-application/7345 "2021-05-10T14:25:04Z")\
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Perhaps Off Topic, but in a good cause.

This year I met Jana Scroeder, a blind person forced to change jobs as part of the social cost of Covid. Her outsider experience of computer coding training became a wish to make things better. She has applied for a Holman Prize ($25,000 over a year) to fund this. She’s also set up a survey to reach and know better those with similar wishes.

One simple way to help open to many is to volunteer to be a sighted helper for a code and math variant of [BeMyEyes.org](http://BeMyEyes.org). I encourage you to listen to Jana’s pitch for a Holman prize, and if you want to help complete the survey (whether you’re blind or sighted, code or math, young or old). I’ve learnt a lot about accessibility from Jana.

**Jana Schroeder’s Holman pitch** (90 seconds):

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3ywl5d162vU/maxresdefault.jpg "Blind Coders Blazing Trails") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ywl5d162vU)

**Jana Schroeder’s survey** (15 minutes):

> **[Blind Coders Blazing Trails: Holman Prize Proposal Survey](https://forms.gle/U1fKFe1WcaJZz18a9)**
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> Responses received by May 13, 2021 will be taken into account in the Holman Prize application. Expressions of interest after that date are welcome as well. Though many people make distinctions, for the purposes of this survey, the terms coding,...

Finally, **The Holman Prize**.

> **[Holman Prize • This is what "blind ambition" really looks like](https://holman.lighthouse-sf.org/)**
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> Every year, the Holman Prize awards three blind or legally blind individuals from around the word up to $25,000 to carry out a dream project. Applications now open for the 2018 Prize; and you can help pick the winners.

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