I have a nice solution if someone wants to know how I lost my sight. I simply explain it. I give them the short story and let them fill in the blanks from there.
now, if a prospective employer were to ask me about how I handle my blindness, I can tell them "easily enough". if they press the issue, I would be polite but would ask why it bothers them. from my experience, most people just aren't aware of what we can do, and most times, they aren't comfortable dealing with us either. considering that we areabout as common as 1 in 12 people in the US, it still surprises me how little contact the general public has with us. -eric On Mar 25, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Gigi wrote: > Hi guys Karen, doesn't sound like we're talking about what you care. It > sounds like we're talking about emotions. That's a very difficult thing to > come back. > I have you decided decided if I wanted to weigh in on this topic, but I would > like to say that there's no way I would give people information about my > blindness just to do business with them. I have to get the government > information about that occasionally, but I see no reason to do that for those > who have no business knowing. > Regards > Gigi > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:54 PM, Karen Lewellen <klewel...@shellworld.net> wrote: > >> Esther, >> Two questions. >> Does the author's guild have statistical evidence that the average mac >> product user even knows that voiceover is there let alone that they would >> opt for this behavior? >> I might point out that audiobooks, commercial ones were not created for the >> vision challenged population, but for the general public, so the argument >> that a vision challenged person would opt for a voiceover edition instead of >> a commercial one, seems well silly. They have figures to document what >> percentage of the billions of audiobooks sold are sold to individuals with >> vision loss? After all, that population was serviced via nls and other >> programs for decades, with commercial audio books selling just fine. >> >> lastly, would not creating an access specific format not solve that issue >> then? there would be no risk of random audio hungry people learning how to >> use voiceover just so they can avoid listening to a real person read an >> audio book. >> Not picking on you, just wanting your thoughts since you understand their >> logic. >> Karen >> >> On Sat, 24 Mar 2012, James Mannion wrote: >> >>> Which is why this stupid nonsense will probably rob us of access in >>> the name of their closed minded greed until the old members of the >>> gild all die and we get minds in there with open minds to a moddern >>> world perspective. The good part is there excessive greed will put >>> them under extra stress which will drive them to the grave sooner. >>> >>> On 3/22/12, Esther <mori...@mac.com> wrote: >>>> Hi Ray, > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
