[access-uk] Re: RNIB Now Selling Long Canes in Different Colours - Import from Canada
- From: "Jim" <jwbr33694@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2012 14:26:31 +0100
Hi Derek,
Freedom of choice is fine but it would be beneficial to all cane users
(regardless of colour) if the RNIB used this as an opportunity to educate or
remind the general public as to the reason for people using or carrying a
long cane.
Hopefully before some member of the public, after knocking over and injuring
a cane user and then using the excuse in their defence that he or she
thought that blind people only used white canes.
Jim Williams
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Derek Hornby
Sent: 01 October 2012 09:46
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Now Selling Long Canes in Different Colours -
Import from Canada
Why are some you making such a fuss?
Is RNIB stopping anyone have a white only long cane?
No
So end of day, no b big deal, want white only long cane and you can still
have it.
The policy is, freedom of choice.
We have the right to make a choice.
So if someone wants a coloured cane that is their choice.
Regards, Derek
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Eleanor Burke
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 9:29 AM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Now Selling Long Canes in Different Colours -
Import from Canada
Hi Saqib
It is vitally important that a guide dog user has the mobility skills of a
long cane in situations where they are unable to use the guide dog. This
could be for a variety of reasons on the part of the guide dog and the
owner. What does the Highway Code say Saqib about a long colour cane for
the blind? Can you refer me to a direct reference on-line perhaps?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saqib" <Saqib500@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 9:24 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Now Selling Long Canes in Different Colours -
Import from Canada
> Hi Eleanor. I'm not sure why this should be a huge concern for you as you
> are a guidedog user. Insisting on people using white canes only is not
> fair and I as a cane user have a right to choose the colour of my cane. If
> it gives me a positive feeling then that is all down to the RNIB making
> these canes available for us cane users.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vince Thacker
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 6:56 PM
> To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Now Selling Long Canes in Different
> Colours - Import from Canada
>
> Agreed, Clive. Quite a while ago, someone mentioned to me that people were
> carrying around pink and lilac canes, or yellow, or similar, and I
> wondered
> whether they were supposed to mean something, or were they a lifestyle
> choice of a rather peculiar kind? And what are drivers supposed to make of
> them? The Highway Code, if I remember rightlly, does mention white canes.
> It
> doesn't mention pink ones as far as I know!
>
> Vince.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Clive Jacobs" <cj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2012 4:52 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: RNIB Now Selling Long Canes in Different
> Colours -
> Import from Canada
>
>
>> Hi, not too sure about the idea of coloured canes. You are right in
>> saying that the white cane is the universal indication of blindness. I
>> fear that in offering coloured canes the impact will be lost and people
>> will start to think that it is some kind of fashion accessory rather than
>> a major mobility aid for the blind. Others may have different views but
>> why confuse something that is so widely? Regards to you, CJ.
>>
>>
>> On 30/09/2012 16:00, Eleanor Burke wrote:
>>> Sorry Barry, this may be inappropriate. I would be interested if those
>>> who have used the imported non white canes would e-mail me off list to
>>> tell me how you find them and the public's reaction to you using one
>>> instead of the traditional long white cane, the worldwide symbol of
>>> blindness. My e-mail address is eleanorburke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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