[blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

Thu Nov 15 13:08:17 UTC 2012

Agreed.
Also, with a store you'd need people who can handle the business aspect as well as people who could handle sales and explain the products. You'd have to charge enough to make the business worth doing, and you'd have to advertise. You'd also have to convince customers why they would want to buy from that business as opposed to another one.
Also, who would be your data source for which products were blind friendly? What criteria would you use to determine if  aproduct met your definition?
I'll also add that much of the advice I got about baby stuff did not come from blind parents.  It did come from of all people sighted lesbians.  I found that group to be very creative when it came to problem solving.

-----Original Message-----
From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo Elizabeth Pinto
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 2:20 AM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

I tend to agree with Lisamaria.  Stores that sell products specific to blind
people, or even mainstream products that are blind friendly, tend to charge
higher prices than most other retail outlets.  That being the case, I would
probably check out products at the blind friendly store, then search for
better prices elsewhere, in which case a resource page would do just as
well.

Jo Elizabeth

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lisamaria Martinez, NOMC
Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2012 11:50 PM
To: Blind Parents Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blparent] FW: Question for blind parents

I don't know about a store specifically geared toward blind parents but
maybe a resource page or a wicky page with links to buy thoset products.
Usually you can get bargain deals if you shop around online so I wouldn't
want to be stuck with one place to buy everything just because it happens to
be particularly accessible to blind parents. I have heard that a resource
page exists somewhere  but I have yet to find one jeered toward us.

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On Nov 14, 2012, at 10:30 PM, "mary jo hartle" <mjhartle23 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>            Hi all,
>
>            This is a question for my own curiosity that kind of came out
> of
> a recent parent's meeting we had at our state convention for the NFB.  As
> blind parents, there are a lot of tools and resources we use.  WE buy
> certain products (i.e., strollers we can pull behind us and use with our
> canes, baby carrying packs, bells or noise makers for our kids shoes,
> notched syringes for feeding our babies or administering medicine,
> accessible baby monitors, etc.) that help us to be more effective parents.
> Most of these are mainstream products which some of us have found to be
> more
> "blind friendly".  Sometimes though we hear about something we want to use
> and have to hunt it down or get it from a specific place.  For example,
> twin
> vision books, or car seats that have built in wheels which allow it to
> become a stroller.   So, I was thinking about resources I've used and time
> I've spent finding the right thing and had an idea.  Usually, we ask each
> other for recommendations and then go hunt down the product.  But, what if
> there was a kind of online store or one-stop shop for all things for blind
> parents?  I wanted to get some of your opinions as blind parents as to
> whether or not you would find such a shop useful.  Would you appreciate
> having a place where everything was designed for blind parents, or a place
> where "best-practice" mainstream products which have proven to be "blind
> friendly" could be found all in one place?  Or does such a place already
> exist and I've just not heard of it?  If such a place existed and its
> prices
> were comparable to other places, would you use it?  Why or why not?  What
> kinds of products would you like to see in such a place?  Also, most of
> the
> examples I gave were relevant to parents of young children, so what needs
> do
> you who are parents of older children find you have?
>
> I'd really like to hear your feedback on this idea-both good and bad.  Who
> knows?  Maybe something will come of it.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mary Jo Hartle
>
>
>
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