Re: Your choice? Would you restore your vision?
Jayde, I understand what you mean about neuroplasticity and critical periods. The most important one of these is language, or at least it appears to be, as can be seen by the case of Victor the wild child, and the case of genie. The story of genie is particularly a tragic one. But I have yet to see any evidence that there also exists a critical period for vision. Language is a very unique system, and a complex one but there hasn't been any evidence that vision can't be re-introduced to the brain at some point.
Camlorn, I actually did research on socio pragmatic competence and theory of mind in blind people for my masters. I learned alot about blind people getting the autism diagnosis, and my opinion is that blindness causes blind people to share several trates with autism as a result of deprevation from visual cues as you said, however these defesits appear to be fundementally different from autism. Also, the criteria for making an autism diagnosis has visual findings heavily weighted, which contributes to the problem.
I really think though that software accessibility is going downhill fast. The number of fully usable applications decreases each day. Now when choosing an antivirus or other software, you choose the one you can use, not the one that offers the best features or protection.
Apliences are unfortunatly going all touch, which means you have to rely on smart ones to use them, which usually don't have accessible apps iether. But for washers and dryers,, if you have the option, you might want to get your own for ease of use and less frustration. When I was shopping for my own set, I did alot of research, and there is literally only one brand that offers blind specific accessibility features built in to their aplience. The smart Samsung machines are fully usable in combination with the app, the braille labels next to the main buttons, and the ascending/descending audio tones for all the options in counter options. But funnily enough, sighted people were bitching about the audio tones for all the options, and how they can't turn them off in the reviews, so I won't be surprised if they remove the accessibility features in the future. It is really a shame though that you have to only get specific apliences to be able to use them properly, instead of selecting among all available options for features you want or other qualities.
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