[nfbwatlk] FW: [List] UK article about blind youth & internet

[Kaye Kipp]

They use jaws.  I lived there for over two years and that article is totally 
bogus.

Kaye
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "debby phillips" <semisweetdebby at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 2:15 AM
Subject: Re: [nfbwatlk] FW: [List] UK article about blind youth & internet


>I found this article disturbing on several levels, but I also am left with 
>questions.  First of all, how old is Lee?  Why is he not allowed out?  (I 
>can't blame him for not wanting to go with his sister).  I never wanted to 
>go anywhere with my brothers either).  I don't know what technology is 
>available there-do they use JAWS, or other products that we do, or does the 
>UK have their own versions of stuff?  I felt like I had stepped back about 
>fifty years.
>
> I do wonder about blind folks here-has research been done (of course it 
> has somewhere I'm sure) about blind people living in poverty in the U.S.? 
> What is the percentage of blind folks here that have some kind of computer 
> access?  What about smartphones?  Is the 70% unemployment among the blind 
> still an accurate figure?  Is it higher?  Lower?  Just some questions I 
> pondered as I read this article.
>
> I'd love a Star Trek kind of computer.  You know, Jean-Luc says, 
> "Computer, Earle Grey, hot".  For me it would be either "Coffee, hot, 
> black, medium roast, or Mocha, double shot, no whipped cream."   Lol.
>
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