[NFBOH-Cleveland] Fwd: Latest news about the Blindfold Games

[Cheryl Fields]

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From: Blindfold Games <martyschultz at kidfriendlysoftware.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 07:00:39 -0700
Subject: Latest news about the Blindfold Games
To: cherylelaine1957 at gmail.com

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Blindfold Games #284: On Meeting a Sighted Person (
https://sable.madmimi.com/c/12318?id=2001678.25373.1.5b682ced2da0b2d05476544f73993f2d
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Marty Schultz, 16 Oct 10:54 AM

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In the blog I wrote a few weeks ago about receiving dictated emails
that include no punctuation, I received the following from Chris Tabb,
referring to an article in the American Foundation for the Blind’s
VisionAware blog, entitled “ **What Do You Do When You Meet a Sighted
Person** “.  The full article is here:

https://sable.madmimi.com/c/12318?id=2001678.25374.1.737b4600443726203f7c0b5461aeebf6
( https://sable.madmimi.com/c/12318?id=2001678.25380.1.a3b9fc5a7faf4375489b758d4310b75a
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_People who use their eyes to acquire information about the world are
called sighted people or “people who are sighted.” Legal “sight” means
any visual acuity greater than 20/200 in the better eye without
correction or an angle of vision wider than 20 degrees. Sighted people
enjoy rich, full, lives, as they work, play, and raise families. They
run businesses, hold public offices, and teach your children._

_Sighted people cannot function well in low lighting conditions and
are usually helpless in total darkness. Their homes are usually
brightly lit at great expense, as are businesses that cater to the
sighted consumer._

_How Can I Best Communicate with Sighted People?_
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_Sighted people are accustomed to viewing the world in visual terms.
This means that in many situations, they will not be able to
communicate orally and may resort to pointing or other gesturing. They
may also use subtle facial expressions to convey feelings in social
situations. Calmly alert the sighted person to his or her surroundings
by speaking slowly, in a normal tone of voice. There is no need to
raise your voice when addressing a sighted person._

_How Do Sighted People Get Around?_
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_People who are sighted may walk or ride public transportation, but
most choose to travel long distances by operating their own motor
vehicles, usually one passenger to a car. They have gone through many
hours of extensive training to learn the rules of the road in order to
further their independence. Once that road to freedom has been
mastered, sighted people earn a legal classification and a driver’s
license, which allows them to operate a private vehicle relatively
safely and independently._

_How Do Sighted People Read?_
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_Sighted people read via a system called “print.” Print is a series of
images drawn in a two-dimensional plane. Because the person who is
sighted relies exclusively on visual information, his or her attention
span tends to fade quickly when reading long texts. People who are
sighted generally have a poorly developed sense of touch. Braille is
completely foreign to the sighted person and he or she will take
longer to learn the code and be severely limited by his or her
existing visual senses._

_How Do Sighted People Use Computers?_
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_Computer information is presented to sighted people in a “Graphical
User Interface” or GUI. Sighted people often suffer from hand-eye
coordination problems. To accommodate this difficulty, people who are
sighted use a “mouse,” a handy device that slides along the desk top
to save confusing keystrokes. With one button, the sighted person can
move around his or her computer screen quickly and easily._

_People who are sighted are not accustomed to synthetic speech and may
have great difficulty understanding even the clearest synthesizer. Be
patient and be prepared to explain many times how your computer
equipment works._

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