[gui-talk] "Whozit?" )was Re: FW: 2009 NFB Convention Agenda)

[Joel Deutsch]

Hi Lloyd,

To me, it sounds like maybe a caption beneath or above whatever the logo is, 
which I'm imagining now as maybe a walking or strolling person holding a 
long white cane. And that it's a slang American contraction for "who is it?" 
as if referring to a mysterious stranger with a white cane, or something 
like that. I have no central vision, so I'd have to get someone sighted to 
look at it and confirm my suspicion, but my guess is that it's a picture of 
a person with a white cane, and it is asking basically "who is his mystery 
person with the white cane?"Reviewing and spell checking, I realize I just 
repeated myself. Sorry.

Is there anyone who actually knows about the origin of this design? And if 
anyone's low vision but in such  a way that they can make visual sense of it 
but don't wish to reveal that on the list, please email me at my address and 
I won't tell on you.

If no one responds with certain knowledge that I can simply fisualize, I'll 
just wait until a sighted friend comes by my apartment, show them the logo 
at the Web site, and just ask what it looks like. That will be fine, 
although then I'll still wish I knew how it came to be.

Thanks very mmuch.
Joel
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lloyd Rasmussen" <lras at sprynet.com>
To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] "Whozit?" )was Re: FW: 2009 NFB Convention Agenda)


Cindy is correct.  Whozit is the logo we have been using for several years;
It's not even a profile drawing, but more like some lines that vaguely
represent someone walking with a long cane.  The logo has multiple colors,
and some text.  Checking the search engine on the NFB web site, I find that
it was introduced at the 2002 national convention, and somewhat described in
the September, 2002 Braille Monitor's convention roundup section.


Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls


> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 7:16 PM
> To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [gui-talk] "Whozit?" )was Re: FW: 2009 NFB Convention Agenda)
>
> Lloyd,
>
> thanks again for the text version of the NFB Convention agenda. If you're
> not inspecting it line by line with Jaws,  (when I arrow down line by line
> with jaws I can visualize how most of the lines are oddly broken) but if
> you
> just do a Say All with Jaws, it reads straight through and you don't know
> the difference. Works for me, as we say.
>
> it's interesting to see the variety of activities and the names of people
> heading up committees. But one question about vocabulary: What is meant by
> the word "Whozit?"
>
> thanks.
>


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