[access-uk] Re: Happy Birthday Louis Braille:
- From: "Niamh" <niam.mckeown@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2013 14:04:25 -0000
well spotted and oh god how I agree.
Five years ago I was reading print, now I read Braille and I love it, not just
that it helps but it is a part of my culture as a blind person.
So Happy birthday and thank you so much.
Niamh
----- Original Message -----
From: Angel
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 5:52 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Happy Birthday Louis Braille:
As you all know already, this is the 204th birthday of one of the few great
and marvellous men who forged ahead despite myriad obstacles to make our way as
blind individuals as easy as it is today. we must not forget those who helped
through low technological solutions to make this possible; in this world of
high technology and the wonders it brings for us to strike out to fulfill our
most treasured dreams on an equal footing with our sighted peers. Mr. Braille,
along with his contemporaries such as Dr. William Moon, understood, as only we
blind can, the true needs of us blind, and proceeded to meet them, as only we
blind can. On this day, we must never forget if it weren't for us testing, and
communicating with those sighted programmers and others who create the
technology which makes it possible for us to do what we do so successfully;
there would be no assistive technology as good as it is. It has been proven
time and time again without us blind pointing the way toward success those
sighted persons attempting too assist us to fulfill our dreams can only fall
short of excellence. So, let us raise a glass to our fellow forward thinker
Mr. Louis Braille. Who would surely be celebrating with us the strides we have
made in the 188 years since the invention of his marvelous code. Which has
done more than anything else to take us blind out of the darkness in which most
of us were trapped; and in which we well might still find ourselves. If not
for him and Dr. Moon and others of his day.
If the gates are all down, and the signal is flashing, and the whistle is
screaming in vain. If you stand on the tracks, ignoring the facts, you can't
blame the wreck on the train.
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