Good afternoon Bloggets. It’s a boiling day. I’m waiting to
hear my Husband on the radio he’s doing a live interview. He wanted me to do it
I said nope, he’s fine. Smile. I don’t get at all anxious about doing such
things but he is available and eloquent so there you are.
Poor Boy Wonder got up so early again for work. He didn’t
get in from Shamrocks until after one this morning and started work at six. Hub
working from home and our dogs are safely in their beds because their bells
during the interview won’t be good also my Wagga has been sick this morning. My
fault. I gave her a chop bone yesterday. Naughty but I always feel so sorry putting
them in the bin and I did throw most of them in the bin. So, she only had one.
My Husbands interview is about accessibility in the UK for
blind people. Banking and voting for example. In Australia, they have a much
better voting system than us. They can turn up at any voting station and with ID,
they can vote whereas us in the UK, it’s not that simple. We can see, well, if
we could, our polling station, an yet we have to travel a mile away to vote as
there is a line down our street half can vote here the other half have to go
elsewhere. Crazy. As for banking, they are really pushing for a staffless, for
my English students, not sure staffless is such a word. Smile, banking system in
the future. Well right now to put your card in the machine outside a bank
firstly it’s not accessible as most of them don’t talk and we don’t know who is
watching us. It’s always best to talk with someone. There are a lot of people
who are not comfortable with technology and feel better with a real person.
Also in some, restaurants and even my hairdressers to pay, there are no buttons
it’s a flat screen without speech you are asked to put your pin number in. well
because there is no speech, we do not know what we are doing so we have to tell
a stranger or even a person we hardly know, our pin number, as a sighted
person, how would you feel giving your pin number to your waiter or
hairdresser?
Shampoo bottles are the same as our conditioner. Some air
fresheners are the same as furniture polish. Window cleaner is the same bottle
as tire blackener for cars. To look at I am sure they are different colours,
but if you can’t see those colours, how do you identify?
Clothes shopping now is getting so much more difficult than
it used to be. Shopping on line that is. There are live pictures constantly flashing
on the screen and it interrupts our speech on our lap tops so we find ourselves
right at the top of the screen again and when it comes to paying for our items,
again the modern way is worse than the old-fashioned way, it used to be simple,
not now everything is done in images rather than words. Or buttons on screen.
Not physical buttons but what our software can identify as a button. So, we
fill our basket after two hours as it took my friend to buy two, tops, and then
find out that the trolley is inaccessible.
One suggestion that I have heard made is that a indentation
should be put on all conditioners for hair and the shampoo bottles should be
just left alone. Sanex, congratulations as you have kindly put Braille on your
bottles so it can be done as have bleach. So, if you can read Braille, great.
To be honest, I buy Sanex for one reason, to support them for thinking about
us.
the fragrance is kind
of a natural one and you have a creamy luxurious feel with the shower gels. They
are lovely.
So, a short blog but one for designers and programmers as
well as those who are involved in voting to think about.
And if you can see, just think about your everyday things
items, life, you take so much for granted. Two million people in the UK who have
no sight or little vision, we don’t take things for granted. We appreciate those
who take time to think of others rather than themselves. Thank God for the
founder of the Apple iPhone. God rest his soul. I hope his predecessors will
continue in the work that started so well for us.
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