Actually, I don't think that anyone will ever state that blind people are too visual! (smile) -----Original Message----- From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:54 PM To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookport] Re: THANK YOU GUYS! Nothing untrue about the below. But I suspect, if someone had made a remark like your original one about blind people, you would have thought none too highly about the remark. Bruce -- Bruce Toews E-mail and MSN/Windows Messenger: DogRiver@xxxxxxxx Web Site (including info on my weekly commentaries): http://www.ogts.net Info on the Best TV Show of All Time: http://www.cornergas.com On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Richard Ring wrote: > It is not even a criticism, it is rather an observation. > Consider the world as it is, consider that there once was a time when > one could get a manual for a product, and there would be text. > Paragraphs explaining the functions of a device. Now, a manual has few > words and many pictures. I base what I say on empirical evidence that > is easily documented. > This doesn't mean that it's inherently a bad thing, but it does pose > huge problems for those who cannot see well enough to take advantage of > the sweeping changes that are happening. > There are more and more appliances that cannot be used by a blind > person. I have a stereo that I needed sighted assistance to set up, I > have never had to get such assistance for something as straight-forward > as a stereo before. > Of course there's nothing wrong with using ones senses, however, it > would seem that more and more aspects of every day life are becoming > visual to the exclusion of everything else. My land lord decided this > past summer to install a new air conditioner. Frankly, the old one was > working fine. This one has a touch screen with pretty icons. The only > reason I was able to use it at all was because it had a remote control > as well. I have to admit, it was amusing to learn that even air > conditioners have remote controls! > > -----Original Message----- > From: bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:bookport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bruce Toews > Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 3:24 PM > To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [bookport] Re: THANK YOU GUYS! > > > But making sweeping, off-the-cuff, little-thought-out comments about > sighted people is no more useful, and just as demeaning, as when sighted > > people do the same to us. More so, really: sighted people make use of > the > senses they have, as do we. They have one additional sense, they make > use > of it. We would too. > > Bruce > >