I don't know how much is organizations trying to maintain their monopoly,
and how much is just people assuming that all blind people are over 70 and
thus don't use computers with compitance *cough Azabat! *cough!
At an rnib event I was at earlier this year for instance (I only went to see
the audio description service), the person discussing talking book services
told everyone that a braille catalogue was available, however recommended
that people make orders by phone due to the braille catalogue being of a
truly insane size.
Only as an after thought did he mention that (and I quote),
"And if you know anyone in your family who is good with computers, they can
go on the internet to order books for you, since we have our catalogue on
the internet, so your family can look it up on their own computer"
And yes, he really did clearly assume that nobody he was talking to would be
able to use the internet themselves to search the rnib online catalogue.
It would actually be an interesting business proposition, providing
accessible html versions of brailled material at half the cost, though of
course making money at it might be an interesting proposition.
Beware the Grue!
Dark.
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