George,

I believe your diatribe was a bit uncalled for.  Terri, as she stated is
not a member of the NFB, and she happens to be the director of arguably
one of the finest departments of disabled students at any university in
the U.S.

She was just pointing out that free directory assistance might be a bit
more than "equal" access, seeing as no one really walks around with a
print phone book in their pocket anyway.

Someone mentioned that a sighted person could use print phone books at a
public phone, I have not seen one of these rare beasts in a long time,
phone book at a public phone that  is.

Someone else mentioned the long distance thing.  Well, that is definitely
a case of more than equal access.  A sighted person does not have simple
access to print phone books from another state, so they would have to pay
for directory assistance for a long distance call, but a blind person
wouldn't.

So, not to put words in Terri's mouth, but I think the point was is free
directory assistance from a cell phone equal access or more than equal
access?


 --
Blue skies.
Dan Rossi
Carnegie Mellon University.
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