[Nfbmo] What would you do?
DanFlasar at aol.com
DanFlasar at aol.com
Mon Oct 24 17:07:04 UTC 2011
Fred,
I don't know the governing structure of your church (or any other for
that matter) but did you press them for an explanation as to why their
promises/assurances were not met? Is there an appeal structure? I can tell
you that I have been to trivia nights in which there were only one or two
questions that required sight. One was regarding corporate logos, and
another was of school pictures of famous people. The first group was fairly
well understood but almost no one got the school picvtures so it was a
failure and you could have gotten pretty much the same result as any of the other
people by randomly choosing one of the multiple choices.
The point being that visual cues aren't necessary. I would take this
to the next level. And by the way,what committee are you on? Is it an
accessibility committee?
Dan
In a message dated 10/24/2011 8:44:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
goodfolks at charter.net writes:
A year ago, I attended a Trivia Night put on by a food pantry in the St.
Louis area. This pantry is supported by my church along with several others.
After the night's program was over, half of the categories being visual in
nature so that a blind person could not participate in that portion of the
program I wrote an item for my churches news-letter and sent it on to the
director of the organization. In this item I pointed out that it was not
fair or necessary to include only video-type questions and asked that they
do, in the future consider having categories which were non-video in the
future. I received assurances from the director of the organization that indeed
they would do this.
Last Friday, I attended their Trivia Nighht again. True, only two
categories of questions were video in nature, however these two categories included
roughly 1/3 of the questions. Yesterday at a meeting of a church committee
I suggested that they with-hold two weeks worth of donations and that
these donations go to another organization as a protest, the rest of the
committee said no to this idea, sighting the possibility that a family might have
to do without this food, I personally doubt it, and figure they're just to
comfortable in their place and don't wish to because it doesn't affect
them, so what would you do if you were in my place? This really upsets me,
especially since I had spoken to this organization a year ago and they had
more or less agreed that this was not a good thing to have happen.
Fred Olver
http://www.dealingwithvisionloss.com For some of us it's a way of life
and for some of us it just makes life easier. Fred Olver
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