Recently I received by US mail a relatively aggressively
worded solicitation package, in an orange envelope, from, with a 2020 calendar
of French flower paintings, from the (Baltimore-based) American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults, to provide Braille Books for Blind Children.
The pitch material inside is rather aggressively worded, and
encourages the recipient to get to know a deaf or blind person “on a personal
basis”. But I believe I saw a booth for
the group at Baltimore gay pride in June, or maybe through the Parkway Theater
at the Maryland Film Festival in May.
When I worked for ING-Reliastar in Minneapolis from
1997-2001 I worked with someone who was “legally blind” and who was given a
larger than usual desktop terminal. He
was the go-to person on almost all the system internal technical problems, and
he also ran a company which hosted my first website for four years (after 9/11
he disbanded the company and I moved the hosting to Verio).
It common in information technology for the most technically
gifted person to have some other sort of physical disability. Ironically, the original founder of 8chan,
Fredrick Brennan, has brittle-bone disease (New York Times story ).
The personal aspect of the appeal I will take up in later
blog posts.
As a small self-publisher, it is not practical for me to
offer my three “do ask do tell” books in Braille. (I don’t do this with Audio Book either, which
Canadian vlogger John Fish sells and advocates.) But this raises a deeper question about
handicap consumer access. I wonder if Amazon Create Space has the ability to
create Braille.
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