- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:34:08 -0400
- To: <forums@david-woolley.me.uk>, w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
i have to agree with DavidW -- there is a presumption -- even on sites which are supposedly designed for use by the blind and on many of the sites of agencies or organizations that deal with a specific disability -- that someone else (read: quote an able bodied individual unquote) other than the ultimate recipient/beneficiary of the product will be performing the purchasing of adaptive technology or the requesting of materials in an alternate format... this is an endemic problem, and extends to the web the everyday reality of those who are quote perceptively unquote or quote obviously unquote disabled (which is a word i usually encase in quotes) -- when someone with obvious visual signifiers of a disability (be it a white cane, a guide/service dog, a wheelchair or mechannised scooter) asks an individual a question, whether it be in a store, a doctor's office, or at a bureaucracy, three or four times out of five, the person addressed directly by the person with a disability, responds to whomever might be accompanying -- or merely standing near -- the individual with a disability, rather than address the questioner directly... just my 2 cents (american), gregory. ------------------------------------------------------------------- CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary ------------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory J. Rosmaita, oedipus@hicom.net UBATS - United Blind Advocates for Talking Signs: http://ubats.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------
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