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<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni>Hi Bob, thank you so much
for your positive participation. Well I agree with you to some extent, it's a
long and intensive battle to win. But it really deserves such strive
and empowerment to guarantee having accessible exercising equipments, it's
the price to avoid health crisis. Well in regards to excersising
privately at home, oh how tedious!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5 face=Aharoni>You could possibly exercise at home, but
it's kinda boring though. It doesn't have this broad
excitement, social interaction and the competitive disposition you're
involved in at the Gym. It's a sufficient benefit to get out of home
for such major exercising activities once a day. I am not who I
used to be. I am now more active, I get up early with freshly energized mind,
and with more salubrious body. I think that promoting accessible sports for
the blind is even more important than focusing on accessible video games etc,
which increases your indolence, and it's associated with major
health problems on the long term. Our health is the most precious treasure
of ourselves. And, if we didn't critically take care of it, we will
emphatically be subjected to negative health effects when we get ilder. The only
way to significantly prevent that, is just to basicly pay more
attention to what strengthens your body. Please, I advise everyone to just try
registering a near Gym. Trust me, it's not that quite long to feel the
difference. Thanks for all of those who excessively and constantly advise me to
take care of my health, including my friends and parents, thanks folks, have a
pleasant time. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=mostafa.almahdy@gmail.com
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:01
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [acb-chat] Sport for the
blind, quite important but,how accessible it is?</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi Mostafa,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Very good post.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>IT is time, or maybe past time for ACB to put
more into the issue of accessible exercise equipment. While exercise equipment
for the home can be had that does not depend upon a digital computer, much of
what's out there in gyms does rely on such computers and, like other devices
such as Smart phones and video devices, we have the right to access these
devices via nonvisual means. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>That means another major fight and, if we win,
probably a long drawn out period of implementation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Frankly, I feel extremely frustrated that we need
laws to gain access that all others take for granted. The technology exists to
make these and other devices including most consumer electronics accessible,
but the powers that be who decide upon such things seem to do the right thing
only when forced by law to do so and then implementation is usually painfully
slow. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I know that Great Britain is way ahead of us when
it comes to accessible video equipment. I wonder how they fare when it comes
to exercise equipment and other consumer electronics? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Bob Hachey </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:02
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [acb-chat] Sport for the
blind, quite important but,how accessible it is?</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5 face=Aharoni></FONT></STRONG><STRONG><FONT
color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni>Hello. As all we know, sport is an
active diversion that demands physical exertion, it involves
strenuous physical efforts to win a competition. It's a major activity
that everyone of us should be involved in on a regular basis. Emphatically,
blind people are not any different from anyone else. Thus, sports and
athletic activities are essentially mandatory for blind people in
particular, due to the fact that we are less active in everyday life in
comparison to sighted counterparts. We don't drive for instance, and we
don't spend all of our errands quite independently. We
ordinarily accompany a sighted friend, or family member to
assist us, or perhaps it's being done on our behalf. Well recently, a
popular blind musician from Egypt passed away due to severe health
problems, and heart diseases. As blind people, we spend a long
time, just lounging, either on the computer, on the
piano, or whatever that interests you individually. Furthermore, as
blind people, we love to eat and to taste delicious food,
haha. I was a bit overweight, and I felt that my health could
be subjected to major threats if I continued this way. So I decided to
register in a Gymnasium to avoid any of that. Well since I started to
go to the Gym on a daily basis, I happilly became quite
active, less lazy, and mentally positive. At the Gym, and in a quite short
period of time, I made many friends, it's infact a great place to
exercise, interact and socialize. Now the question is, how
accessible the Gym is? How accessible these Athletic facilities
are? Well usually, the Gym is largely equipped with various
athletic devices and facilities. But for the most part, you can't use
them independently. You will frequently demand the sighted assistance of
your coach or one of your friends at the Gym to slightly adjust the device
you exercise on, either to decrease or increase the speed or the
resistance of some device. That absolutely requires sighted interference. So
for instance, when I use the treadmill, the coach configures it for me, and
he tells me, it's now programmed for you to run 15 minutes straight, or
whatever the time was. During my treadmill session, I can't observe or
do the following:</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni>1; The speed that this
treadmill was set to run on, unless someone tells me about
it.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni>2; How many mile it
runs per minute.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni>3; How many fats and
calories I lose per minute.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni><FONT color=#0000ff>4;
How fast my heartbeats are?</FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni><FONT color=#0000ff>5;
How long is left to go on that particular program I am running
on.</FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5 face=Aharoni>6; I can't adjust the treadmill timer
on my own.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT color=#0000ff size=5 face=Aharoni><FONT color=#0000ff>Of
course, all of these important information and even more are displayed
on the treadmill front screen. These information are visually recognized,
and any sighted trainee can easily adjust and control that as
he exercises. I think this subject is quite important to be
significantly considered on a panel of critical discussions. It's
timely for our adaptive technology to incredibly reflect its usability,
and to enormously reutilize this athletic world for us. I
look forward to your positive participations, thank you, have a
pleasant time. Mostafa.
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