Michael May got pretty excited to find out that there were restaurants that
had their menus online.  I don't exactly consider this to be particularly
exciting, or even "accessible" to the masses of blind people around the
world, or even here in the United States.  Having Brailed menus is not very
accessible, owing to the low percentage of blind and visually-impaired
people who are Braille-literate.

If finding one restaurant in a hundred that offers a Braille menu is so
earth-shaking, then why aren't blind people capitalizing on this lucrative,
money-making opportunity of providing Braille menus to every restaurant in
their own area, and even providing such a site on the internet, where
restaurants can order Braille menus?  Doesn't anyone smell the scent of
money in such a project?

If having a restaurant's menu online is so earth-shaking, then why not
provide this service to restaurants, providing them with their own web page
menu on your own menu-specific website.  You could literally have hundreds,
if not thousands of web pages, each for specific restaurants, on your own
website, charging each establishment, a mere $50 per month, to host and
provide their own menu online.  Is the scent of money growing stronger than
the smell of food in the restaurants themselves?

But wouldn't it be a heck of a lot easier, if you merely suggested to the
restaurateurs, that they provide an audio cassette player with the menu
spoken on the audio cassette tape, for their blind and visually-impaired
customers?  And couldn't this, too, be turned into a money-making venture
for some enterprising blind or visually-impaired entrepreneurs?

If I'm wrong about this, then Shakespeare was right, when he said, "Much
Ado About Nothing!"

I just hope that any menu provided, is easier to read than Michael's
message was!


-- George


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