Nobody said anything about all blind people agreeing about anything. The
issue is whether we are hurting ourselves with our inability to
cooperate. Even if you don't believe that the infighting in the blind
community is worse than it is in the general public, that's no reason to
just accept the status quo. But think about curb cuts. Over the last 20
or 25 years, pretty much every curb in the country has been rebuilt to
allow wheelchair access. Every building has to have acccessible
bathrooms when it's remodeled. Stadiums, office buildings, classroom
buildings have all been rebuilt to allow wheelchair access. And it is
now just considered part of the cost of doing business in this country.
How did they do it? How did partially paralysed people get those things
done? They don't fight among themselves like we do.
-- John Heim
On 04/25/2017 07:42 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
I agree with this post. Sure it would be great if all blind people
agreed with one another, especially when it came to issues concerning
the blind, but I think this is unrealistic. In this sense, the blind
are no different then the general public, and as nice as it would be
if the blind were better than the average Joe, I don't think we can
escape the fact that we're human, and this brings in all of the bad
along with the good.
For a job I had about five years ago, I needed to collaborate with my
peers on Google Docs. At the time this didn't work with any screen
reader or browser combination, except ChromeVox and Chrome. I had no
trouble learning the different key strokes, and in addition to keeping
me competitive on my job, is was exciting to be working with my
colleagues on the same document at the same time.
As I said, I don't have a problem learning some new keystrokes when
coming over to a new platform or picking up a new screen reader. I
think people moving from platform to platform face much bigger
challenges. For me, for example, the fact that I have to use Outlook
at work and choose to use Thunderbird at home, and the different ways
they handle spell checking, is much more frustrating for me then any
keystroke differences between Orca and JAWS. Even as frustrating as
this is, and even though I prefer Orca and Thunderbird, I'd never
expect Microsoft and Freedom Scientific to change how they handle
spell checking in Outlook.
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