Well said Colin.  I think that most of us on this list have done what 
we had to in order to survive and prosper.  Easy, never; possible, 
usually.  Mobility is and will continue to be one of the big ones; 
with the best o&m skill sets and the best dogs in the world, it's not 
the same as jumping in the car and doing what you want.  I've faced 
job discrimination all of my working life but have managed to have 
good jobs and had a good career in several different areas.  And from 
an old guys' synical position I don't think that the ADA has done a 
hell of a lot to improve anything.  And at the end of the day, it's 
all been pretty good.
Pat, K9JAUAt 07:07 PM 1/9/2015, you wrote:
>100 per cent agree on that one Alan!
>Minimizing a disability or minimizing limitations is plain stupid and
>unfortunately a major selling point for the biggest blindness organization
>in the US...I'm sure it's obvious which one.
>Yes, lets just hide from it, pretend it doesn't exist and maybe it'll go
>away, or maybe others will treat us like sighted people...serious BS.
>Accepting ones disability, learning to work within the limitations and
>becoming totally comfortable in your own skin as a blind person is far more
>productive and allows one to lead a happy and successful life.
>Pretending it's no more than a neusance only prolongs acceptance and
>obtaining your own healthy level of self security, self confidence and self
>asteem.
>And to keep it relatively short, living with ones own limitations, and
>accepting the way one is and will always be is not the same thing as
>failure, or complaicents or giving up or not trying to push those
>limitations or boundaries...that is always healthy more or less.  A Neusance
>my foot lol.
>
>73
>Colin V A 6BKX
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan R. Downing
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 5:04 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: scanners?
>
>Hey Butch, ain't being blind great?  I have to laugh at those poor souls
>that really believe that being blind is a mere nuisance.  What hog wash!
>On a scale where blindness is a mere nuisance is on one end, and a total
>disaster on the other, blindness would be a lot closer to the disaster end
>than a mere nuisance.
>
>N7MIT
>
>
>Alan R. Downing
>Phoenix, AZ
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On Behalf Of Butch Bussen
>Sent: Friday, January 09, 2015 1:57 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: scanners?
>
>Has anyone had any luck using radio refference with scanner programming
>software.  I have a pro 433 with butel software and although it wasn't at
>all speech friendly, couldn't edit any fields, I could go to radio
>reference from within the program and down load to the scanner.  I can no
>longer do that, comes up with combo boxes as window-eyes calls them for
>state and I can't get anything to work. I've tried n v d a as well with no
>success.  I sware, we kep losing accessibility on this stuff.
>73
>Butch
>WA0VJR
>Node 3148
>Wallace, ks.