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

[Georgina Joyce]

Hi

Yes, I'm visually impaired.  I'm also disabled when that letter drops on
my door mat.  But I'm not disabled while I write this email.  I don't
own a disability.  But society disables people through it's common
practices.

Gena donning the tin hat <smiles>


On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:06 -0700, Juan Hernandez wrote:
> 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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Gena

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