[Ohio-talk] Good news for theater goers

Mon Mar 20 19:50:35 UTC 2017

With the national Federation of the blind the decision to choose what issue to litigate is often times on a continuum you have to evaluate what suits will affect the most people and make the most progress in our fight.
This is often times difficult decision because not all people have the same values as to what progress and furtherment of the fight truly is.
For instants litigating over accessible feet theater, or litigating over the wage violation under the department regulations 14.C. Both are important but one will effectively change quality of life from and employment perspective.
Think about it in this way. When you're building a house you typically start with the foundation, and then finish it up withih the chimney. This is a crude but accurate representation of the fight model that we follow. If we were to have infinite resources all matters that would further or five would be litigated
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Subject: Re: [Ohio-talk] Good news for theater goers

I suppose it depends on your perspective, but before I get into that I
must say I do think this service should be available for those who
want it.  However, I agree it isn't the biggest priority to sue over.

I've been to several plays, one with audio description and most
without.  I saw Mama Mia on Broadway and thought the description was
helpful, and am puzzled as to why more theatres do not have it.  When
I used it I had a little box and headphones like you get at a movie
theater, and the audio descriptions were recorded tracks that played
in sync to the light changes run by a computer.  I'm no expert on
this, but it seems to me like they could record descriptions once per
show, sync them up with the computer, and have it available whenever
someone needed them.

However, most of the shows I've seen did not have audio description
available, and ironically I saw all of them with other blind people.
The benefits that we had were that we knew the story so well that we
didn't really care what was going on visually, or we already knew the
jist.  I know once I saw High School Musical (I was a tween at the
time) and the visual stuff wasn't an issue.  Later when I saw Wicked,
the person I went with and I chose to capitalize on "Obstructed view
seating" to save some money, and I was still able to fill him in on
what was happening visually just because I had listened to the
soundtrack and knew the plot so well.  I feel like as much as I've
listened to the Hamilton soundtrack, I have a pretty good idea of what
is going on even visually-or at least the essential things.  The one
type of show where I do care much more about visual information is
commedy.  I think a lot of humor is conveyed through nonvisual
communication and gestures, but Hamilton is a fairly serious show.
I'd personally just be happy to get a ticket with how expensive they
are, but I would find it to be more of an issue in commedic plays or
musicals and would wish to have it then.

On 3/20/17, Mike Leiterman via Ohio-Talk <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> Although I do agree with Barbara as to the urgency of this lawsuit compared
> to other lawsuits we have done I am sympathetic. Last year I won two tickets
> to Phantom of the Opera on Broadway through a Seeing Eye charitable auction,
> however looking for an audio descriptive performance was not very enjoyable.
> During the year they only had two performances and a 12 month period that
> were audio descriptive. I contacted the company and they let provide the
> audio text script service and they said it was pretty much hit or miss as to
> what performances they do.
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> I doubt that this is a Federationist. I would expect the lawyer to be Scot
> LaBarre if it were since he is in Denver as well. We mostly stay away from
> entertainment suits since we are looking for president-setting decisions
> that will aid lots of blind guys. I probably see more theater in a year than
> most NFB members, but I want our funds to go for suits that will make a
> difference in people’s lives.
> Barbara
> Barbara Pierce
> President Emerita
> National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
> Barbara.pierce9366 at gmail.com
> 440-774-8077
> The National Federation of the Blind knows that blindness is not the
> characteristic that defines you or your future. Every day we raise the
> expectations of blind people, because low expectations create obstacles
> between blind people and our dreams. You can live the life you want;
> blindness is not what holds you back.
>
>> On Mar 18, 2017, at 12:22 PM, Rachel Kuntz via Ohio-Talk
>> <ohio-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Another interesting story in the world of blindness recently aired on
>> NPR's
>> All things Considered. This story was about the lack of accessibility for
>> blind theater goers. I am excited about this lawsuit and wonder if it is
>> a
>> NFB member. Take a look:
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>>
>>
>> blind-theatergoers-hamilton-lawsuit-aims-spotlight-on-broadway-accessibility
>> <http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/03/14/520008274/a-blind-theat
>> ergoers-hamilton-lawsuit-aims-spotlight-on-broadway-accessibility>
>>
>>
>>
>> Rachel R. Kuntz
>>
>> Board Member
>>
>> National Federation of the Blind of Ohio
>>
>> 937.245.0547 cell
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>> <mailto:rachelrkuntz at gmail.com> rachelrkuntz at gmail.com
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>> Live the life you want. Blindness is not what holds you back.
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University of Dayton 2016.
Music Therapy, Clarinet
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