[Travelandtourism] Royal Caribbean CruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

[Peter Donahue]

Hello Barry  and everyone,

    So they'll wake up my designated reader in the middle of the night if I 
wish to have something read while sighted passengers can have access to 
documentation any time anywhere? They obviously need a lesson on equal 
access for the disabled particularly the blind.

Peter Donahue


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barry Campbell" <jazzlion1 at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB Travel and Tourism Division List'" <travelandtourism at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 3:42 AM
Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Royal Caribbean 
CruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships


Hello:
  If this is true it is very sad.  My wife and I were told that Braille
printers were on each ship of the fleet.  Much of the time they are not used
but as for being broken my guess is that the persons who do the printing
have not read the instructions or have not loaded the proper drivers into
the computer.  We just came back from a cruise in mid February and we had
Braille compass (the ships newspaper).  I do not like the idea of having
someone read the compass to you very much but may have to live with it.
When my wife and I travel with another group on Carnival ships the travel
agent gets a crew member, usually one of the cruise director staff, to
record the event schedule each day and it is replayed on a TV channel.  This
would be a great solution and even others who are not blind may appreciate
it also.

We may have to make a call to RCCL to investigate.  We are Emerald level on
the Crown and anchor society and could switch easily to Carnival/Princess if
a sufficient answer is not provided.


Barry Campbell
email:  jazzlion1 at comcast.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:travelandtourism-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Peachtree Travel
Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2011 8:51 PM
To: NFB Travel and Tourism Division List
Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] Royal Caribbean Cruise
LinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships


You say the Braille printers have been broken every time you try to get an
agenda Brailed.  Who has been Brailing the material for them?

Reese

----- Original Message ----- 

well I am still investigating the whole thing.  I don't like the answers I
am getting, and a few times that I had sent clients that needed Braille the
printers were broken.


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