[Ct-nfb] TRANSPORTATION

[Blindhands at aol.com]

Well I have to tell everyone that for the 6 months I have been taking the  
transit and due to me sitting and waiting so much for these 2 buses to get 
me  there and back, I have been bringing my knitting with me.  I have made 15 
 baby sweaters waiting for buses and I sold my first baby sweater on EBay 
this  week.  I am in the Pilot program with NFB and EBay and went to 
Baltimore  for the training in February.  There were 16 people chosen out of 150  
applicants to participate in this first training.  There are 14 left in the  
pilot program as you had to keep working on the learning and participate in 
the  training that they set up.  For those going to National Convention EBay  
will be there and they will be having several sessions to talk with folks 
about  EBay.
 
They had accessibility  problems especially with screen readers and  the 
listing area on EBay site and the members of the Pilot  program have  been 
working and testing and giving reports to the accessibility team of EBay to  
make it better for people using screen readers   
 
Our job will continue to make EBay a better place for visually impaired  
people and my goled is to become an EBay trainer in order to teach others,  
especially visually impaired people the ability of becoming a seller on  EBay.
 
I was suppose to say this at our last board meeting, but I was not at the  
board meeting, so here is my little speech to all.
 
Joyce  Kane
_www.KraftersKorner.org_ (http://www.krafterskorner.org/) 
Blindhands at AOL.com   

 
In a message dated 6/18/2011 10:36:04 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
ckuell at comcast.net writes:

Hi Trudy,
 
You bring up some very interesting points. Here's  my two cents.
 
Blind people will never be able to drive  independently, not because we 
can't, but because of cost, insurance, and  societal acceptance. The first time 
a blind driver had a fatal accident it  would incite a panic like we 
haven't seen in decades. 
 
I believe the NFB embarked on the blind driver  challenge to 1. show the 
world we are capable of doing things they never  thought we could 2. to get 
the name of the NFB in the news, and 3. to develop  revolutionary technology 
which can and will be used in ways we can't even  imagine yet. I think it hit 
the mark in all three areas.
 
In America, corporate interests are no longer  separate from politics. To 
improve public transportation, there  needs to be funding, which of course, 
comes from the government, and  ultimately from tax payers. People don't want 
to pay more taxes, and they do  want the privilege of driving their 
gas-guzzling cars, and they want that gas  to be reasonably priced. This is also 
what the car manufacturers and oil  producers want, and they get what they 
want, even if it's not necessarily in  the best interest of society.
 
In Europe, public transportation is excellent,  and far fewer Europeans 
drive cars than in the United States. This is because  countries are smaller, 
which makes public transportation more feasible;  governments have made huge 
investments in public transportation systems, and  have raised gas prices so 
high that not only people with disabilities or those  who have multiple 
DWIs use it--everybody does. And since everybody uses  it, there is pressure 
for it to be timely and efficient.
 
chris
 


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