Well its sad that all the good people that actually knew what they
were doing and that cared have gone.
The admin I knew at the educational instatution has left due to
budget cuts, he had his own business anyway.
The computer and carriers advisers that had creative minds and ideas
and really made the organisation I had actually run over the poor
blind aspect and become more normal left, or got premoted.
Now we have organisations for the poor blind.
Its not their fult that its all for poor and super poor blind per say
unless they are like well just like it.
But I am sad all the good people are gone, even the coms person that
got my phone has gone away and the new one runs by procedure only.
Basically everything is done as is with no modification.
Basically the poor blind get what they get because thats whats on paper.
This may sound harsh but whatever has changed the good people that
can think outside the square have no wish to work in these places
though there is preasure and loads of burnout at least in some places.
ANd before I get flamed to a crisp, I tried both ways once with
creative people when they were still there and the second with the
hum drum people.
Its why I don't consolt the orgs, by the book and always by the book.
Worse, I know most of it, because I have read the book basically verbatum.
Guidelines for the poor blind to be adjusted for whatever is needed.
Now its like robots reading procedures and executing them.
And I am sad that most won't know or give a frak about it.
I'm not sure what to do about this but clearly something needs to be
done somehow and somewhere though after I got robots reading stuff at
me I have pushed myself mostly out the loop bar esentual services
like equipment perchace and library service.
At 05:56 p.m. 29/04/2011, you wrote:
when i did my degree, my student equipment grant did buy me a laptop.
That was the laptop I started playing web rpgs and interactive
fiction on which taught me a lot about it.
I certainly would've had no compunction about using it for games, ----
afterall it wasn't as if they wanted it back ;D.
the laptop which this new one of mine is replacing was actually the
one bought in 2005 by the equipment grant for my masters.
I wrote all my ma essays on it, and indeed took it to conferences
which was what it was for, however as everyone will know I also
played games on it too, right up until the point the headphone
sockit died over christmas.
ddid I refrain from putting games on it? ---- heck no! did I work on
it, yes certainly!
Did I get the state to buy it for me just! to put games on, ----
certainly not indeed! however it didn't cost them any extra cash at all.
Actually it's a real shame the chap who sorted out all my equipment
grants actually died recently.
He was fantastic, and certainly had no objection to people having
fun with computers, ---- his view was the option was available to
sited people so why not, so long as it didn't come out of the budgit.
It's a great shame though sinse I really think he would've approved
of audio games, not the least because he also sorted out teaching
and equipment for primary school children, he probably would've
deffinately approved fof accessible games as a way of learning just
as Charles said.
I actually think this is an interesting issue, and probably needs a
place in my phd somewhere sinse it's such a general thought, and one
of the issues I wish to raise in chapter 4 is the responsability of
a disabled person to everyone else which certainly covers this fact.
Beware the grue!
Dark.
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