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From: Gary.Petraccaro@f90.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Gary Petraccaro)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Pathfinder Tiles
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Date: 20 Jun 91 20:09:04 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

-> In a message to Walter Siren <05-29-91 21:27> Beth Hatch-Alleyne wrote:
->
-> BH> appreciate you for making them.  However right you are that
-> BH> these things, employee ignorance about the capabilities of
-> BH> blind workers, path finder tiles will serve to increase
-> BH> their ignorance.  If the employer excepts blind people need
-> BH> these tiles to travel, he or she will wonder how much money
-> BH> is going to be spent accomidating the blind person't nees
-> BH> such as finding the bathroom, the cafeteria, etc.  Then, if
-> BH> the employer is asked to buy computer software and/or
-> BH> hardware, that may be the straw that breaks the cammel's
-> BH> back, and the blind individual might not get hired, Beth.

Beth,

     In the first place, you cannot increase someone's ignorance
unless you provide him mis-information, otherwise, you can only
increase his data.
Another thing, not necessarily directly related to your message,
is the issue of the imployer's real cost and his Right to take
it into account.  Want to bet that that employer will look at
someone's need to have everything in braille and never even
think of tiles? or that after hearing that he will be legally
forced to make accommodations in his workaday proceedures that
that will break his back far more completely than the tiles?
Yeah, of course, there will always be the employer who does
exactly what you say--put the cart before the horse--but, I'm
not sure how many there'll be. If you want to take up tiles,
take up the B I G tile we all voted for, the A. D. A..  Now,
that's a tile.  Seriously, that fabled employer doesn't care
about tiles, they couldn't possibly cost enough (unless I'm sadly
mistaken about the price).

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