debian gripes, accessibility, and labels, was: Re: IntegratingSpeakup/ESpeakup into Debian boot process

[Juan Hernandez]

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 at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca]
On Behalf Of Daniel Dalton
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 11:30 PM
To: speakup at 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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