Re: Do you feel excluded?
@Zarvox, there have been lots of disability awareness campaigns. Here in the UK for example the RNIB used to publish some extremely twee adverts with a little girl explaining how hard it was to not see the stars, then there was a poster campaign with disabled comedians (one of whom was blind), in the late 2000's.
For blind people specifically, guide dogs; the organisation not just the canines, do a huge amount of awareness work here in the UK.
The problem however, is that most of this goes in one ear and out the other where the public are concerned.
"Oh! blind people are so enspiring"
But that doesn't make it anymore likely your average sighted person on the street would actually want to talk to someone.
Even when major organisations get involved it doesn't usually help, for example a UN rights report in 2017 listed the UK having an extremely poor record for treating disabled people's rights seriously, however since blindness is a poor cousin to most disabilities, and these days "disability" always means wheel chair, your generally on to a none starter.
This is why in my PhD thesis one of my major recommendations was the need to setup areas of experrtees in specific disabilities with governmental backing directly deal with social and environmental arbitration related to disability actually ensure discussion takes place, rather than just getting ignored, as is currently the case, however since "just getting ignored" is pretty much what happens to any vaguely sensible suggestion about disability anyway, my thesis very much included, there really isn't a lot you can do here.
With blindness specifically, the history of accommodations for blind people is unfortunately almost universally the history of some group in power seeing some advantage to providing for the "blind beggars", or "inejucable blind people", and changes being made according to how much they fulfil someone else's political or religious a gender, rather than what they actually do for the people in question.
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