HI Dark, Yikes! For those kinds of prices the RNIB aren't a charity but are a bloody band of pirates!
Sadly, I don't know what you can do in that situation. Chances are if someone took them to court over discrimination the courts would side with them, because the very attitudes of your government is to wipe their hands clean of accessibility related issues and put it in the hands of the RNIB who obviously are incompetent. Since you don't have any laws like the ADA you don't have any legal grounds to challenge the RNIB and getting such laws passed in your country would take quite a bit of work from what it sounds. The other problem is that you seem stuck for one and only one agency for all blind related things. Here in the US there are all kinds of agencies and if a person is dissatisfied with one they can try another. I often buy things from different rehab centers simply because one carries something I need that another center doesn't have in stock, or I find it slightly cheaper somewhere else. I have some choice where I go and buy things from where the RNIB is able to do whatever however they like unchallenged. That's quite sad. Cheers! On 6/10/12, dark <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi tom. > > I have actually said before the Us services and a certain amount of their > attitudes are better. > > While there are individual brailling or reading services for the rnib, the > price for them is prohibitively expensive, and the time taken is ridiculous. > > For instance, when i was doing my disertation, before I'd sorted the hole > digital recorder routine, we got a book read onto cd by the rnib that it > would need. It however cost about 200 pounds to have this done which was > paid out of my readers' grant (that's about 300 usd), and furthermore, they > > refused to put it into the main library, meaning that if someone else asked > > them tomorrow for the same book they'd get charged the same fee. That to me > > is not! the behaviour of a charity. > > And getting items brailled is even worse, though luckily I can fix that > myself. To be honest, the Rnib are so damnably useless given their view of > blind people, these days my approach personally is to have as little to do > with them as possible, and either do things myself (these days I manage my > own readers' grant paying for assistance which works far better and in fact > > cheaper, plus can read dynamically according to what I need done at the > time), concentrate on smaller, but better agencies like guide dog services, > > who naturally deal with a more flexible view of the capabilities of blind > people, for example I've already mentioned the rather extreme guide dog > holidays group. > the only sad thing is they don't get the government or public funding the > Rnib does. > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
