No, it’s for able-bodied virtually to completely blind people who get around with the help of a seeing-eye dog and or walking cane which they may employ to “feel” and “see” their immediate environment by tapping it to and fro. When you lose one of your senses, the other naturally heighten in order to compensate. Wheelchairs are for cripples. Get your disabilities straight, foo’.

You’re not the only one who wonders about that stuff. I mean take ATMs for example, it has brail on it. Um, hello, its a DRIVE THRU. You expect some blind person driving around looking for an ATM to use?

@heh, I don’t know what you are talking about. I didn’t mention wheelchairs and you just validated my point. Is a blind person going to go into an operating theater with a dog tapping their walking cane “to and fro” as you said to “feel” and “see” the person being operated on?

I think this is a case where being politically correct has to go before logic.

I’m not trying to be vindictive and I know everyone should be treated as equal sometimes it just doesn’t make sense.

blueeyes, DocterMoo: I can see your approaches to this because they both appear similar; “oh, ghay, they’re wasting money/time/effort” or what ever by putting up something which seems pointless. What should blind/otherwise disabled people do? Only go to areas specially fitted for them? Remain bed-ridden? It’s about accessibility. The reason you don’t see more blind people living close to normal lives is not because there aren’t a lot of them around, it’s because our world is unnecessarily inaccessible to them, above and beyond just the things their disability automatically disqualifies them for. Basic things you take for granted are beyond the realm of most disabled people unless they’re appropriately rich because they’d need all kinds of special equipment and help just in order to carry on living.

Why is it unfair? Because we cater for every-damned-thing-else, that’s why. Fat people have entire corporations devoted towards helping them imagine they can lose weight while doing no exercise by popping pills, drinking special shakes, pumping up with Creatine and then continuing to stuff their faces with what ever they’d like because the medication they’re taking will “trap the fat” or “heighten metabolism” or “supplement your diet your antioxidants”. Then there are other businesses devoted to catering for those same fat bastards who tried the medication option, failed and are now resolved towards trying an exercise machine/program — Tae-Bo, AbFlex, et cetera.

Not fat but just old and tired-looking? ZOMG, we can turn the clock back ten years on your wrinkled ass with new pro-V Q10 with Retinol-A! Just sit back and watch the slickly animated CGI microgranules of bullshit filter down into the root of your hair and watch some clueless bitch throw her head about like a horse and neighing about your worthiness and how you should feel special about shelling out at minimum R300 for what ever tub of shit their chemists cooked up.

So what should blind/otherwise disabled people do? Only go to areas specially fitted for them? Remain bed-ridden? I don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect that as many things as possible are made more accessible to citizens.

If the only price for changes that makes things more accessible for people with disabilities is the confusion of people those changes aren’t even meant for then that’s the WTF you can focus on instead. It disappoints me that people only learn things these days if they have to (usually for work-related and thus monetary reasons) or if a damned movie is made about it. Case in point, DocterMoo is only wondering about this after seeing it on a show. There’s this myth that knowledge is useless you use it; unless you’re God, how would you ever know when something you know will come into use? I can guarantee you though that you’ll know exactly when something you don’t know will POP up and bite you in the ass.

blueeyes: Bonus rebuttal: there’s a drive-through ATM very close to where I work; I don’t especially go and get my car just to then use it, petrol prices are a ridiculous and I don’t have a swank company car with a petrol allowance or money to just throw away. I just go over to it pedestrian style. There are different ways to use and do many things. Unfortunately for disabled people, usually there’s either no way or only the way grudgingly provided after enough people complain about it.

Bah, repeated one of my paragraphs above without noticing. Also, somewhat annoyingly, the acronym plugin you’re using incorrectly identifies and capitalises some of my words, your template lies and if by now no-one has realised I’m a bitter, cynical and otherwise disagreeable bastard, wait for my next comment. Heh.

it’s not a case of it being pointless. I can understand the requirement of it being there if it needs to be used by someone.

It just baffles me that things have gotten so far along that something like that is needed.

why not leave a link back to your blog or something, I would be interested to read what you have to say about things in general.

LOL.
That is funny. Makes you wonder though. Especially the Drive through ATM. WTF?