Hi Tom,

I understand that medical information is required for a residential program,
but I don't understand why such a detailed questionaire is required for a
ham organization.  When I signed up for bookshare, all I was required to do
was give the name of my local regional NLS library so that Bookshare could
varify my blindness.
Bob Tinney, K8LR, [log in to unmask]
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Subject: Re: New Handi-Ham Paperwork


I hadn't been reading these messages because this was going round in a
circle
and going nowhere but happenedc to look at one to see if it had gone
anywhere
and see at the bottom that someone had addressed some comments to me
concerning
accessibility.  I agree that we should be able to access everything but like
it
or not we are blind people in a sighted world.  So long as our government
has
rules which exclude them from having to provide access and requiring things
like
print signatures on print forms we'll still have these problems.  I've had
to
start the process of putting my mom in a nursing home and if you want to
talk
about inaccessible stuff you should see all that paperwork on federal,
state,
and local government levels.  Its some of the most inaccessible stuff I've
seen.

Having said all that, I think its really probably time to put this to rest.
Handi-Hams does a great service and none of us are required to use it if we
don't agree with it.  The disagreements I have with them have to do with the
extreme dumbing down of their study materials (only recording the correct
answers to questions and not the distractors) like blind people are too
stupid
to deal otherwise but I certainly have no problem with their following
federal
regulations.  Since they're not absolutely the only ones around who can
provide
ham materials there is some choice.

Tom


Tom Brennan  KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
web page http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html