[bcab] Re: FlyBe

Dear Dave,

I can agree with your argument on facebook, as i did some work on trying to 
make this accessible, but it seems as though it has been in vain, also the bBC 
education on line is inaccessible to me.  
 i am studying at Crawley college, where there is allot of good will, but 
no-one knows how to teach anyone blind like myself, and none of the support 
workers are telling the next support worker how Hal works, so it is more 
pressure on me, when i am already struggling to get around it makes life very 
difficult. 
 i am not one to sit around and if I can  make a difference somewhere, i try 
and do so.  I contacted Sainsbury's on line site recently as i found that 
totally inaccessible and horribly difficult to navigate and they sent an a mail 
back to say that no one had tested it for accessibility issues and that if i 
wanted to order i can do by phone, so they did make a reasonable adjustment, i 
do hate those words, as they mean very little in my mind and i feel that DDA 
doesn't go far enough as far as Education, Employment goes, Especially in 
Employment because without education, you can't get employment and vice versa, 
although it is harder to find a job while not working, I have been trying to 
find a job for three years to no avail, because I live in a  Leisure and 
Tourism area, that there aren't the jobs for me to apply for and i don't want 
to  be travelling too far away from my home.  

i am five miles from Gatwick and you would have thought that there maybe an 
opportunity somewhere, but there isn't.  

 have lobbied MP for disability about the higher mobility rate and was at the 
lobby, so was pleased to learn that some good may come out of that.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From

  Jane 
  From: Dave Taylor 
  To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 11:20 AM
  Subject: [bcab] Re: FlyBe



  Hi,
  Yep. I agree with that too. But for sites like Facebook, we know many people 
have already approached them, they have done nothing about it, and many of us 
wouldn't pay them any money anyway, so that argument is less often appropriate 
than it used to be.
  Cheers
  Dave

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Clive Lever 
    To: bcab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 8:58 AM
    Subject: [bcab] Re: FlyBe


    Hi Grahamand all,

    I agree with those who say that perhaps the blind community, is there is 
such an animal, has traditionally been more circumspect than other disabled 
lobbies, and so we are in danger of slipping down the pecking order.  However, 
we do need to sell the business case.  We are customers who want to put money 
into the companies' pockets, and if inaccessibility makes it difficult for 
others to access their services too, we need to come at it from the approach 
that they are keeping customers away from their cash tills.  If this doesn't 
work, we can then start to get tougher with them.  If it does, you ahve a 
win/win.

    Best,
    Clive



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