[access-uk] Re: Online utility accounts

  • From: "Derek Hornby" <derek.hornby_uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:48:38 +0100

Well if a scanner is so  cheap  and easy to use
Why  is RNIB taking  legal actins against DWP?

After all,  all DWP  documents can be read  either  online,
Or use scanner.

 
Derek 
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Vincent Thacker
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 2:11 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Online utility accounts

In 1948, you'd be hard put to it to read print via scanner, while nowadays
it's cheap and easy to do just that. 

In the name of customer service, surely it's better if someone asks you some
basic questions rather than making assumptions. What proportion of blind
people read Braille? A very small one is my understanding. Something like
20,000 out of a couple of million people was an estimate made by RNIB some
years ago.

Vince.





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        Message Received: Apr 04 2014, 11:45 AM
        From: "Derek Hornby" 
        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Cc: 
        Subject: [access-uk] Re: Online utility accounts
        
        But if we go by legal defination of blind
        Is it not correct to assume blind people can not read print.
        
        The National Assistance Act 1948 states that a person can be 
        severely sight impaired if they are "so blind as to be unable to
perform
        any work for which eye sight is essential" (National Assistance Act
        Section 64(1)). 
        
        Derek 
        -----Original Message-----
        From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
        martin wilsher
        Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 8:45 AM
        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [access-uk] Re: Online utility accounts
        
        If they know u r blind, they will prob assume you want braille,
that's a bad
        assumption imho.
        
        -----Original Message-----
        From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of
        Vincent Thacker
        Sent: 04 April 2014 08:20
        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [access-uk] Re: Online utility accounts
        
        E-on send me bills in Braille. I have no idea why, as I've never
asked for
        it, can't read it and find it a nuisance that because of it my bills
arrive
        late so that I never get a prompt payment discount. Phoning them is
a
        long-winded and possibly expensive nightmare, though no doubt I
could
        scratch around for an email address. It's good to know that they can
produce
        Braille, of course, for those who want it.
        
        Vince.
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
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        Message Received: Apr 03 2014, 10:58 PM
        From: "Derek Hornby" 
        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Cc: 
        Subject: [access-uk] Re: Online utility accounts
        
        Hi David
        How about Braille or large print bills.
        I have British gas bills in Braille.
        
        Derek 
        -----Original Message-----
        From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
        Behalf Of
        David Boden
        Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 2:08 PM
        To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
        Subject: [access-uk] Online utility accounts
        
        I will shortly be needing to move house and get involved with online
        utility
        accounts and billing.
        
        
        
        I would be very interested to hear of people's good and bad
        experiences in
        this regard within the last few months.
        
        
        
        TIA.
        
        
        
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