this stuff is STILL boring
Pat, K9JAUAt 07:00 AM 6/30/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>Whenever such paperwork does exist, I expect the person requiring the
>paperwork to render reasonable accomodations to insure that I am able to
>participate in the process.  I'm blind, not sighted.  That makes me
>different.  The sighted should be willing to help, and should learn not to
>take their sight for granted...
>
>
>
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>Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 6:31 AM
>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