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Reply To: | VICUG-L: Visually Impaired Computer Users' Group List |
Date: | Sat, 20 Jun 1998 15:20:43 -0400 |
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Before we ban peripheral topics:
I know this is not necessarily computer related, but some of it
may be.
I would like to compile a list of activities that are either not
sight-dependent, or only minimally so.
The idea is this: I want to do a wider range of activities with a
wide range of people. I want to know of activities that we can do
that do not depend on sighted assistance, and are not designed
for the blind.
Examples of the types of activities that I am describing are:
Attending a lecture, going to a concert, going to dinner or a
party. Bowling and sitting in an Indian sweat lodge are also
activities in which we can blend in with minimal sighted
assistance.
Many plays are good, but it depends. Movies can go either way,
but I have found, that if I call up a friend to go to a movie, he
assumes that I am asking for his help to narrate the visuals. If
that is the case, it is not an activity for my list.
Please, email me with your list of activities that blind people
can do 90% independently, and with or without sighted assistance.
They should also be activities that sighted people would enjoy
doing with a blind person, because the activity is fun or
interesting in and of itself, and because it puts no demands on
them to accommodate us.
The more that we can find inconspicuous ways of accommodating
ourselves, the more we can do and the more we will blend in.
Also, please furnish me with the addresses of other list serves
for the blind, so that I can post this notice to it.
Thank you.
Peter Seymour
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