I agree with the statement made by Kelly Ford.  If Dr. Gardner was
submitting this application, and having it typed by an assistent, it was
up to him to be sure that the assistent followed all application
requirements, including that of double spacing.  As a person who holds a
Ph.D., he is more than likely very familiar with directing how his work is
to be done by assistents or secretarial staff.  So, I do not believe that
using his blindness is a valid excuse.  He did, in this case have sighted
help and still submitted it incorrectly.

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then...find the way."
Abraham Lincoln

On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Darrell Shandrow wrote:

> Well, I think that we need to be very careful in how we approach these
> things having to do with text formatting.  We do need to understand our
> limits as blind individuals.  We are, without sighted help, unable to
> accurately produce documents with tables and other extremely complex
> formats and graphs.  Perhaps, Dr. Gardner should have been allowed the
> opportunity of submitting a document with corrected format, especially if
> all the necessary information was provided and otherwise would have been
> acceptable.  I do not think that a blind person should be denied based on
> format alone.  Remember, we must understand our limitations just as well as
> our capabilities.  I think, at this point, that I would be in line with Dr.
> Gardner's position.
>