[gui-talk] My "technophobe" comment fell a bit short...

[Joel Deutsch]

Loy,

Look, I'm well over 65. I'm not sure how much older I'd have to be to be 
categorized as "older," a grouping that seems to mean "too old to be 
interested in using a computer, even if their grown children buy them one." 
But I can understand about people with other disabilities, too. I was trying 
my best to be humble.le, last message. I hope that was clear. I couldn't 
remember the many disabilities that might make audio cassettes and now 
plastic flash drive cartridges the best basic method for a lot of NLS 
patrons. But now I see. So to speak.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Loy" <loyrg2845 at gmail.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:35 AM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] My "technophobe" comment fell a bit short...


it was designed for everyone to be able to use. There are a lot of older 
people and people with dexterity problem that need the larger cartridge. 
many of these would not be able to use the regular USB drives.

From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:38 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] My "technophobe" comment fell a bit short...


...of accuracy. Simply because I just plain forgot about what must be
thousands upon thousands of blind people in America who, either because of
financial constraints that would have applied in their families and
communities regardless of their blindness, and others nearly impoverished
for other reasons besides, not everybody out there who's fortunate enough to
have been hooked up with NLS talking books has a computer and spends their
days emailing and downloading and so forth. Of course cartridges that
resembled the familiar audiocassette would be the right thing, if for no
other reason. I got that syntax all backward, but I mean, even if it were
only for the sake of people without computers, that would be a good enough
reason for the cartridge idea. And of course there are people with
computers, sometimes reasonably well off, who simply don't want to do all
that downloading business. Yadda yadda. I just wasn't thinking. Hitting self
on head.


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