[gui-talk] National Federation of the BlindCommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
Joel Deutsch
jdeutsch at dslextreme.com
Thu Nov 30 18:40:46 CST 2006
Paul,
I don't disagree with these things you say at all, but they aren't a response to my post below it. All I said, mistakenly, was that this was a simple hack press release, so to speak. I had neglected to arrow down and see that it was a policy statement by a big NFB honcho.
Anyway, I don't want to pursue this. I assumed this would be the NFB position, and I assumed the reasoning, or more precisely, rhetoric, would go more or less like this. It's their paradigm. No problem.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Henrichsen
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the BlindCommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
Hi. I wasn't confused by it at all. However, he drew some incorrect
conclusions. Two that come to mind immediately.
And I am paraphrasing since I don't have the article to cut and paste from.
If we do this, it will suggest that blind people should be cared for or
pitied.
If we do this, it will suggest to employers that all documents will need to
be modified in the work place for the blind.
It seemed to me that Dr. Mauer was guilty of a number of incorrect
inferential leaps or misdrawn conclusions.
Paul Henrichsen
Paulh52 at pacbell.net
-----Original Message-----
From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:43 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind
CommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
Paul,
I'm not about to differ with you regarding your impression of what's written
in that piece, but those weren't the thoughts or word of the writer. it is
not even a news article, to begin with. It's a press release from the NFB,
expressing its position. That may take some of the confusion out of it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Henrichsen
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments
onFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
I would have never thought that one guy could take so many inferential leaps
and consider himself intelligent. That is the most ridiculous article I have
ever read.
Where and how does he come up with so many incorrect conclusions?
And what makes the NFB think that they are my voice much less the voice of
the nation's blind?
They certainly aren't my representatives.
Paul Henrichsen
Paulh52 at pacbell.net
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From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of albert griffith
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:14 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on
FederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
I believe any time a good or service can be made accessible to us and the
solution is not extremely burdensome, all efforts should be made to make it
so. As I stated in an earlier post, accessible money wasn't worth the
expenditure of resources it probably took, but now the court has ruled in
its favor, I don't see why other organizations for or of the blind should
expend any of their precious resources fighting it.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 4:53 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on Federal
Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
National Federation of the Blind Comments
on Federal Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
Views Effort as Dangerously Misguided
Baltimore, Maryland (November 29, 2006): The National Federation of the
Blind, the largest organization of blind persons in America and known as the
voice of the nation's blind, criticized as dangerously misguided a federal
court ruling saying that the design of U.S.
currency discriminates against the blind.
Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said:
"The blind need jobs and real opportunities to earn money, not feel-good
gimmicks that misinform the public about our capabilities. Blind people
transact business with paper money every day. This ruling puts a roadblock
in the way of solving the real problem, which is the seventy percent
unemployment rate among working-age blind Americans that severely limits our
access to cash. The ruling will do nothing to alleviate that situation; in
fact, it seriously endangers the ability of the blind to get jobs and
participate fully in society. It argues that the blind cannot handle
currency or documents in the workplace and that virtually everything must be
modified for the use of the blind. An employer who believes that every
piece of printed material in the workplace must be specially designed so
that the blind can read it will have a strong incentive not to hire a blind
person."
Maurer went on to enumerate the real needs for access to information by the
blind and made a distinction between those needs and the issue of
identifying currency. "Access to information of all kinds, such as that
contained on Internet Web sites and in the press, is certainly critical to
the ability of the blind to become productive members of society. Blind
students need educational materials in Braille and other alternative formats
so that they can prepare for employment and ultimately earn an income for
themselves and their families. Given the urgent need for access to the kind
of information that is required for success in America's information
economy, the matter of identifying the denominations of paper bills is of
relatively little concern."
Blind people traditionally identify paper currency by folding bills of
different denominations in different ways. "In reality, blind people do not
routinely find that we have been short-changed," Maurer commented. Machines
are readily available to identify paper money for blind people who run
businesses or handle large amounts of cash. "Essentially, the United States
Treasury has been ordered by the courts to come up with a solution for a
nonexistent problem," Maurer said.
The National Federation of the Blind believes that with training and
opportunity, blind people can compete in the world with only minor
modifications. The American Council of the Blind, which brought the lawsuit
against the United States Treasury, promotes the view that the blind are
unable to compete unless the world is modified dramatically and specifically
for blind people, and that the blind must be made objects of care and pity
rather than equal participants in society.
John G. Paré Jr.
Director of Public Relations
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2371
Cell phone: (410) 913-3912
Fax: (410) 685-5653
Email: jpare at nfb.org
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Paul,
I don't disagree with these things you say at all, but they aren't a response to my post below it. All I said, mistakenly, was that this was a simple hack press release, so to speak. I had neglected to arrow down and see that it was a policy statement by a big NFB honcho.
Anyway, I don't want to pursue this. I assumed this would be the NFB position, and I assumed the reasoning, or more precisely, rhetoric, would go more or less like this. It's their paradigm. No problem.
----- Original Message -----
From:
mailto:paulh52 at pacbell.net Paul Henrichsen
To:
mailto:gui-talk at nfbnet.org 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Sent:
Thursday, November 30, 2006 4:00 PM
Subject:
Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the BlindCommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
Hi. I wasn't confused by it at all. However, he drew some incorrect
conclusions. Two that come to mind immediately.
And I am paraphrasing since I don't have the article to cut and paste from.
If we do this, it will suggest that blind people should be cared for or
pitied.
If we do this, it will suggest to employers that all documents will need to
be modified in the work place for the blind.
It seemed to me that Dr. Mauer was guilty of a number of incorrect
inferential leaps or misdrawn conclusions.
Paul Henrichsen
mailto:Paulh52 at pacbell.net Paulh52 at pacbell.net
-----Original Message-----
From: mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:43 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind
CommentsonFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
Paul,
I'm not about to differ with you regarding your impression of what's written
in that piece, but those weren't the thoughts or word of the writer. it is
not even a news article, to begin with. It's a press release from the NFB,
expressing its position. That may take some of the confusion out of it.
----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Henrichsen
To: 'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:20 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments
onFederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
I would have never thought that one guy could take so many inferential leaps
and consider himself intelligent. That is the most ridiculous article I have
ever read.
Where and how does he come up with so many incorrect conclusions?
And what makes the NFB think that they are my voice much less the voice of
the nation's blind?
They certainly aren't my representatives.
Paul Henrichsen
mailto:Paulh52 at pacbell.net Paulh52 at pacbell.net
-----Original Message-----
From: mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of albert griffith
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 2:14 PM
To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on
FederalCourt Ruling on U.S. Currency
I believe any time a good or service can be made accessible to us and the
solution is not extremely burdensome, all efforts should be made to make it
so. As I stated in an earlier post, accessible money wasn't worth the
expenditure of resources it probably took, but now the court has ruled in
its favor, I don't see why other organizations for or of the blind should
expend any of their precious resources fighting it.
----- Original Message -----
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Subject: [gui-talk] National Federation of the Blind Comments on Federal
Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
National Federation of the Blind Comments
on Federal Court Ruling on U.S. Currency
Views Effort as Dangerously Misguided
Baltimore, Maryland (November 29, 2006): The National Federation of the
Blind, the largest organization of blind persons in America and known as the
voice of the nation's blind, criticized as dangerously misguided a federal
court ruling saying that the design of U.S.
currency discriminates against the blind.
Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said:
"The blind need jobs and real opportunities to earn money, not feel-good
gimmicks that misinform the public about our capabilities. Blind people
transact business with paper money every day. This ruling puts a roadblock
in the way of solving the real problem, which is the seventy percent
unemployment rate among working-age blind Americans that severely limits our
access to cash. The ruling will do nothing to alleviate that situation; in
fact, it seriously endangers the ability of the blind to get jobs and
participate fully in society. It argues that the blind cannot handle
currency or documents in the workplace and that virtually everything must be
modified for the use of the blind. An employer who believes that every
piece of printed material in the workplace must be specially designed so
that the blind can read it will have a strong incentive not to hire a blind
person."
Maurer went on to enumerate the real needs for access to information by the
blind and made a distinction between those needs and the issue of
identifying currency. "Access to information of all kinds, such as that
contained on Internet Web sites and in the press, is certainly critical to
the ability of the blind to become productive members of society. Blind
students need educational materials in Braille and other alternative formats
so that they can prepare for employment and ultimately earn an income for
themselves and their families. Given the urgent need for access to the kind
of information that is required for success in America's information
economy, the matter of identifying the denominations of paper bills is of
relatively little concern."
Blind people traditionally identify paper currency by folding bills of
different denominations in different ways. "In reality, blind people do not
routinely find that we have been short-changed," Maurer commented. Machines
are readily available to identify paper money for blind people who run
businesses or handle large amounts of cash. "Essentially, the United States
Treasury has been ordered by the courts to come up with a solution for a
nonexistent problem," Maurer said.
The National Federation of the Blind believes that with training and
opportunity, blind people can compete in the world with only minor
modifications. The American Council of the Blind, which brought the lawsuit
against the United States Treasury, promotes the view that the blind are
unable to compete unless the world is modified dramatically and specifically
for blind people, and that the blind must be made objects of care and pity
rather than equal participants in society.
John G. Paré Jr.
Director of Public Relations
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND
1800 Johnson Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21230
Telephone: (410) 659-9314, ext. 2371
Cell phone: (410) 913-3912
Fax: (410) 685-5653
Email: mailto:jpare at nfb.org jpare at nfb.org
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