[Travelandtourism] RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships

[cheryl echevarria]

Vicki thank you for your feed back, being a travel professional, I always like to find out first hand and give all the information I can not only to you here on this list, but also in helping clients, and maybe some of you will become future clients of myself and Maurice as well.  

All the cruise lines have it on there tvs, they also have a running total of your bills, and you can purchase excursions, as well as make restaurant reservations.


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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Vicki Ratcliffe<mailto:vratcliffe01 at comcast.net> 
  To: 'NFB Travel and Tourism Division List'<mailto:travelandtourism at nfbnet.org> 
  Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2011 11:19 AM
  Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism]RoyalCaribbeanCruiseLinesnolongerprovidedBraille on their ships


       I have taken lots of cruises and will chime in here.  I am a Braille
  user and have used it for all my life but also read many talking books as
  well.  I have been on many Royal Caribbean cruises and had great times but
  only had a Braille schedule one time.  The Braille printers were either not
  working or people were not trained in how to print Braille appropriately.

       Having said these things, I did not have any problem to get schedules
  read and actually recommended to my travel agent that they put the schedule
  daily on the TV.  I just came back from a carnival cruise where the schedule
  ran in a loop each day all day on a tv channel and it was great.  You could
  turn on the tv at 7:30 in the morning and hear what was going on and even
  record it yourself on any recording device that you had.

       I don't totally blame Royal Caribbean because I think that someone told
  them that printing in Braille was just like a print printer.  There are lots
  of turnovers in terms of people working in different departments on cruise
  ships as well.

       Braille is great but at the same time, there are blind people who are
  not sufficient to read it.  I'm not saying that it should not be used but
  just want schedules in a format that work.  Having it spoken on the tv helps
  sighted and visually impaired guests at the same time.

       These are just my opinions and I have traveled thoroughly.

  Vicki
   


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