[Nfbmo] What would you do?

[Debbie Wunder]

Hello, it is often a common practice to have some video  at a trivia night. 
Sometimes the videos are visual, and sometimes they are audio. If you are a 
team made up of sighted and blind people you should still be able to give 
impute to the question/answer.

At our NFB Columbia  trivia on Saturday, we did not use one audio/visual. 
All questions were read aloud, and shown on the wall. We offered any blind 
team a scribe to fill in their forms if they were unable to.

A great time was had by al.

If any one would like us to talk with your chapter about how we did our 
trivia night, we would be more than happy too!

Debbie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfbmo] What would you do?


> hi,
>
> the st. louis chapter is considering a trivia event next year and may 
> attend one of yours to see what they are like.
>
> Bryan Schulz
>
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> From: "Susan Ford" <johnsusanford at earthlink.net>
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> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:33 PM
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>>
>> I don't know, Fred.  It's too bad you can't find a bunch of blind people 
>> who would go together to next year's Trivia night.  With enough of you, 
>> they would be embarrassed and feel compelled to alter things.  I didn't 
>> know they used video materials at trivia nights anyway.  I thought they 
>> were supposed to be intellectual pursuits.  You might send an item to 
>> Dave Andrews to put on all the NFB listservs.  Maybe someone else would 
>> come up with a good plan.  Depending on who sponsors it, programs getting 
>> federal money could be compelled to do things differently, but a church 
>> doesn't receive federal funds.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "fred olver" <goodfolks at charter.net>
>> To: "NFB of Missouri Mailing List" <nfbmo at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 8:44 AM
>> Subject: [Nfbmo] What would you do?
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>>>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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