[access-uk] Re: IT Exhibition at RNIB Judd Street Today
- From: "Steve Nutt" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 16:02:30 +0100
Hi Eleanor,
Thank you for your very kind words about Becky and I. Becky has only started
working for me since April, but she is learning fast, and a great asset to me.
She doesnât know Braille, but knows many of the products we sell and is
certainly more than just an assistant to me, she is literally my eyes at a
place like that.
It was great meeting you in the flesh too.
Thanks so much.
All the best
Steve
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Stevenage
Hertfordshire
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Tel: +44(0)1438-742286
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From: access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Eleanor Burke
Sent: 15 October 2012 21:44
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] IT Exhibition at RNIB Judd Street Today
I went along to the exhibition of access technology at RNIB Judd Street today
and I would like to say a special thanks to Steve Nutt at Computer Room
Services who showed me the technology I had gone along to see and which he had
there. It was my first time to meet Steve, in the flesh, as it were, and I
would like to pay tribute to his curteous manner and attention to detail when
demonstrating equipment. In addition, Steve had an Assistant, and forgive me
Steve, if she was not just your Assistant but what I liked was her very
friendly manner and how anxious she was to ensure that all of us visiting Steve
were seen and provided with the information re required in terms of leaflets
etc.
I was particularly disappointed with Sight & Sound as I had made a special
journey to see some of their access technology but I was disappointed. First of
all I was told that the person was busy and I should take a seat and he would
be with us in 5-10 minutes. After about 15 minutes I got fed up with this
arrangement and went over to where Sight & Sound were positioned in the corner
of a room with only one representative. I stood in the queue of one there and
then had my question answered in 30 seconds. I had wanted to see the hover cam
but unfortunately it was not there today.
I managed to go to one other exhibitor to view a CCTV. Again a very pleasant
gentleman.
Other than that I muddled around many people but I do wonder when people go to
such trouble to bring along their access technology for us to see/feel/hear why
these exhibitions cannot be set up more effeciently. I think where there are a
number of blind people and all queuing up to see various items, it should be a
little like going to the Dr! only a certain time allocated to each person in
order to get around many people. For example at Sight & Sound corner, there
was a gentleman who spent 10 minutes (while I was standing around) just playing
with his iPhone and the Braille Sense which I wanted to see was sitting in
front of him doing nothing!!! I asked him if I could have a 2 seconds look at
it, rather disgruntled he said I could not as he was busy doing something. I
said to him, it looks like you are more busy with your iPhone to which he
replied that he was trying to get his iPhone to recognise the Braille Sense. I
then spoke to the gentleman from Sight & Sound and commented that there
appeared to be some problem here with the iPhone not recognising the Braille
Sense, well I might as well have been talking to the Moon. He just shuffled in
my direction, lifted and lowered the Braille Sense and that was it. I was very
surprised that said gentleman did not immediately say what the issue might be,
the gentleman with his iPhone appeared to know what he was doing, but I felt
that if Sight & Sound representative had an iPhone or asked the gentleman if he
could see if he could sync both it would have been helpful. I did with my 2
seconds worth of Braille Sense and left in disgust!
There were volunteers standing around to bring people like myself to the
various stands and that was good but I am not going to Sight Village as I just
could not put up with standing around for nothing and travelling a distance for
nothing. There must be some better way of organising these exhibitions so that
as many possible customers can view the equipment, surely that is what the
sellers want.
Oh yes, I did manage to see the new phone which RNIB is bringing out at the
beginning of November. Unfortunately I found it very slow but can see its uses
for those who have difficulty with keys in that they need absolutely ages to
hit the key and even more time while the speech announces each letter they hit,
e.g. on a numerica keypad wanting the letter O meant I had to wait while the
speech announced m, n, o by which time I had almost fallen asleep with bordom!
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