[accessibleimage] Re: The Runaway Jury

Now there's an interesting mistake - funnily enough my comments ended up in
the hands of the New York Attorneys for the Patent application, via this
LIST! I had referred readers to the protest through posting the URL for
www.tactileaudio.com/publications.htm and trhough Lisa's kindness in putting
an initial copy on the LIST a week or two ago. Silly me - I thought that
Jennifer Justice was referring to that accessible graphics/image issue. The
pages have been further updated and should be worth a look to anyone
seriously interested in moving 'graphicacy' forward in line with 'literacy',
e.g. Brull and Parkes 1997 in The World Blind - a pdf can be supplied,
tgdgraphics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and copies of other publications, prior by many
years to the patent application: which can also be supplied. To users and
former users of Nomad and TGd AudioPIX in particular - it should make
interesting and to some degree worrying reading.

I had written to the Patent Attorneys concerned (named on the US Patent
application) as it was my advice that they had a duty to pass on any
'interest' based on prior art (stuff that has been published before) to the
US Patent Office. They simply didn't reply. But your/my material in
"[accessibleimage] Re: The Runaway Jury" prompted an immediate email to me!!
How and why I have no idea!! Clearly 'the medium is the message'! so thanks
again to Lisa and the LIST - by default.

My misdirected comment was the result of rejoining the list and not being in
touch with the topicalities - sorry for that. It was also the result of a
great deal of frustration/stress and anger that anyone could be so
unashamedly willing to use the  work of others to their own benefit for
profit. Patents. per se,  are not the problem - it is the misuse of the work
of others that matters here and then, if  succesful, the right to block all
sales, gifts and further developments in the USA. Big help to blind people
eh?

Sorry for the mess up - but ironic thanks - you got me to the Patent
lawyers - how I will never know!

Don Parkes

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lisa Yayla" <fnugg@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <accessibleimage@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 3:25 AM
Subject: [accessibleimage] Re: The Runaway Jury


> Thank you for the advice Jennifer, I did
> as you said and here is the answer
>
> "If it is in a state or local court I think that making such
> important
> visually delivered information available to such court
> participants might
> well be covered under the effective communications
> requirements of the ADA
> (subpart e). Also if the court in question receives any
> federal funds then I
> think that the "auxiliary aids and services provisions" of
> Section 504 of
> the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 would be applicable.
>
> Of course, under both scenarios the blind or VI participant
> (juror,
> defendant, plaintiff or attorney) would have to make the
> request for these
> reasonable accommodations."
>
>
> Jennifer Justice wrote:
> >
> > Why not contact the National Federation of the Blind's
> > lawyer group (you can get to them and other
> > professional online communities by way of nfb.org)?
> > they would be the ones to ask, at least in U.S.
> >
> > Jemmofer Justice
> >
> > --- Lisa Yayla <fnugg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Awhile ago I read The Runaway Jury by
> > > John Grisham. In it one of the jurymen
> > > is blind. Grishham gives an account of
> > > how the exhibits are made available for
> > > the blind juror, that is that the diagrams
> > > are described. This is good of course, but
> > > would have been nice if Grisham had included
> > > tactile graphics too. Leads me to wonder how
> > > such court evidence is handled for visually
> > > impaired lawyers, judges, jurymen etc.? Anyone
> > > know?
> > > Regards,
> > > Lisa
> > > P.S The book was pretty good
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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