[stylist] Poem: Blue Button

[Jackie Williams]

Bill,
I have been inactive for months due to my computer crashing. It took months
which involved getting the hard drive replaced, getting an expert to
diagnose and retrieve what was possible from my external hard drive,
installing a new computer also, up-dated but still foreign to me with
Windows 10, JAWS 16, and My Word program with its many files and folders
still not transferred until I learn to use it.
But the good news, the first e-mail this day from the group is a poem that
could not be more pertinent. I have that experience so often, often not
stating a color, but just saying just clicking on the button, and I cannot
see or find it using the suggested hot key of B. 
There are so many things that JAWS does not read, like when your entire
screen goes black, so you have no idea what to do.
I am sure that more lessons at 80. Per hour would help, but after all this,
I just liberally delete things.
I call myself a poet, sometimes in question! But I love your content, and I
also like rhymed poetry.
Thanks so much for putting our experiences in a poetic form.
Now, I must try to keep up with the Stylist group once again I probably have
missed a great deal from all of my friends.. 

Jackie Lee

Time is the school in which we learn.
Computers are the fires in which we burn.
Delmore Schwartzand Jackie Lee	 

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bill Outman
via stylist
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2016 7:17 PM
To: 'Writers' Division Mailing List'
Cc: Bill Outman
Subject: [stylist] Poem: Blue Button

Here is a poem I wrote tonight that was inspired by a blind friend's
experience with an inaccessible web form with a blue button that could not
be accessed in order to complete it.  I am writing as if in her voice, but
any of us without sufficient vision to interpret a computer screen would run
into this problem.  

 

Any comments are welcome.  

 

Bill Outman 

 

Blue Button 

 

When I came to a web form 

I wished only I had proper access.  

If to its requirements I could conform 

I could achieve full success.  

 

You tell me to click the button that's blue 

I reply I simply cannot see, what can I say?  

And without physical vision I see no hue 

No matter if green, orange or gray.  

 

I am left wondering what to do. 

For with the computer voice it cannot be read 

I'm left feeling very blue, 

And it's enough to make me see red 

 

If I could sense the color by touch, 

Or if it only had the proper tag 

It would help so very much

So that the job would be in the bag 

 

So to all I would implore 

To institute the correct fix. 

Such an act I would adore, 

For then I would be fully in the mix. 

 

 



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