Misha, LOL, you've exactly got the right image! grin. The only thing left out is me telling the iPod, in rather colorful terms as I'm shoving it about, how lucky it is that I can't do what I'd like to do to it and its designers and its sleek little shiny case and innards if I could swing a baseball bat!
Judy s. (who really wouldn't swing a bat at anything, even if it was possible, but enjoys the thought anyways!)
Mike wrote:
OK, Judy, please laugh, you've made my day. I now have this picture stuck in my brain and can't get rid of it...a woman with her nose pressed up to the touch wheel of an ipod as it sits on her desk. She moves her head, trying to push her nose around the touch wheel to select songs, but instead the ipod skitters across the desk on it's slick back. Yes, it's extremely frustrating, but at the same time quite hilarious.Misha Judy s. wrote:My favorite was the U.S. Representative (from Wisconsin) who tried to kill the NLS program for the new digital players because, heck, the blind and disabled could just use an iPod so why waste all that money? He actually SAID THAT!HELLO? That would be the totally unusable iPod? The iPod that relies on a touch screen that you a) can't see and b) doesn't and won't ever have a braille display and c) sure as heck doesn't work with your nose trying to manipulate the screen! (trust me on this one! wink). It requires working hands AND working eyes AND working ears.Duh.It's not only companies that forget, it's also the people who are supposed to represent all of their constituents.I suspect the representative's office now knows me by name and dreads my calls because I've contacted them to chew him out about several things, including the above. grin.Judy s. Lynn I wrote:You've hit the nail on the head, Judy.I think back to the time when VCRs first came out. I wanted to record theYoung and the Wrestles--my favorite soap at the time. It was quite aprocess--making sure to program the VCR in the proper way. I learned though.A few years later, one manufacturer came out with a VCR that had talkingmenus. The only problem was cost (around $900.00), not really affordable.The point I'm trying to make here is that often manufactures forget that people who are blind enjoy TV, movies, computer technology, caller IDphones, and a whole host of other products. They tend to leave us out of the loop, however. Maybe that isn't all bad--many of us have learned to be quiteresourceful with Braille labelers and using our brains to rememberstep-by-step programming procedures. How many more products would be sold ifmanufactures realized that people who are blind and/or visually impaired spend money too? *smile* Blessings. LynnskyTo unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.
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