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

Thu Oct 18 11:28:05 UTC 2018

Good morning Cheryl,

Nice article.

As we all know, everything/system has more or less its pros and cons, hence on avrrage they do perform pretty much the same, hence equality we, the federationists, want to achieve is a reasonable and fair request!

Thanks for sharing!

Have a great day.

Ali

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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
)

_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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