Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
- From: "James Panes" <jimpanes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:14:45 -0500
Hi Dennis,
Thank you very much for your comment.
I hope that your example acts as a wake-up call for those of us that are
sitting around feeling sorry for ourselves. It certainly works for me.
Thanks again,
Jim
jimpanes@xxxxxxxxx
jimpanes@xxxxxxxxxxxx
"Everything is easy when you know how."
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dennis Brown" <DennisTBrown@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Team Excellence Award Winner
As a blind programmer that lost my eyesight, both arms below the elbows,
total hearing loss in left, 80% hearing loss in right, and most of the lower
half of my face in a demolition accident in the Army in 1984, and as the
founder of the BlindProgramming.com web site, and list serve, and the JAWS
Scripts list, I take issue with the statements that you made.
So what if it takes me a bit longer to do what sighted people can do? Rehab
is not an elevator to the top, but rather a stepping stone on the path to
success, and every step I accomplish--with or without assistance--is still a
step to success, no matter how you look at it.
This list was founded to assist blind want-to-be developers in achieving a
step to success, and if I can do it, then anyone--especially a vanilla blind
(someone with just blindness), which is the majority of the blind community,
can certainly do so.
OK, so it took me 7 years to get a 4 year degree, but I got the degree, and
that was the goal I set out to do.
If you measure individual success according to how it compares to someone
else's success, then you're using the wrong yardstick.
Thanks,
Dennis Brown
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