[bookport] Re: THANK YOU GUYS!

  • From: "Richard Ring" <ring.richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:57:56 -0600

Actually, I don't think that anyone will ever state that blind people
are too visual! (smile)


-----Original Message-----
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[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

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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
>
>


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