From: "Juan Hernandez" <blindmagik@gmail.com>
To: "'Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.'"
<speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: RE: debian gripes, accessibility, and labels, was: Re: IntegratingSpeakup/ESpeakup into Debian boot process
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 14:06:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C9BFB944DA1E4776B17014EC0787C40A@belgarion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090409062957.GA19592@debian-hp.lan>
In terms of disability labeling, I think visually impared is to vague. I
like blind for totally blind people, and partial for people who have site.
But I've always hated disabled, I like the term diffaabled. Differently
abled. Disabled emplies we can't do sometime, diffabled emplies we do it
differently.
Take care.
-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Daniel Dalton
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:30 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: Re: debian gripes, accessibility, and labels, was: Re:
IntegratingSpeakup/ESpeakup into Debian boot process
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 08:50:06PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 01:08:55PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> > First, I don't think the term "handicapped" is a good one.
>
> Interesting that we should get onto that topic. I personally am not
> that hot on the term disabled, it always makes me think of a car by
> the side of the road, with both blinkers flashing. I suppose we could
No neither am I... It's not exactly true, how is a blind person disabled...
> have a lively discussion for days on end, about how we should label
> ourselves, or about how others should refer to us, and we'd probably
> never reach a consensus.
We could, and I think your right! :) I personally think "vision impaired" is
fine.
Daniel.
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