[bookport] Re: Labeling Chargers
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:33:23 -0500
I agree totally, Bruce. This is not a blindness issue and should not be
argued as if it were. People who won't assume some personal responsibility
really shouldn't try to escalate every issue into a blindness-related one,
since sooner or later, the cry of "wolf" is going to be heard once too often
and people are just going to begin to turn off, including (possibly
_particularly) people whose job it is to provide services to the blind.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Toews" <dogriver@xxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Labeling Chargers
I also fear that we, as blind consumers, have taken the concept of
accessibility from an effort to be equal with our sighted peers to an
effort to be spoonfed. It's not enough any more to have the same kind of
access, we want special access. As we have stated, chargers and
adaptors tend not to be labeled for sighted people, yet we want them
labeled for us. It's like when I was a very young kid. I'd often get
wires and cables and cords tangled up. It got to the point where I was
asking sighted people to untangle them for me. Finally someone correctly
told me that it's not a blindness issue and there was no reason I
shouldn't untangle the wires myself, as it was just as easy for me to do
it as for a sighted person to do it. Similarly, we're starting to ask
for features and conveniences that, to me, show laziness on our part,
not proactiveness.
Bruce
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