[OSList] Supporting the blind at an open space event

[Harrison Owen]

I have never done an Open Space for Blind People. but I have done many OS's
with some or many blind people. And as near as I could tell, they did just
fine. Their own coping skills worked, and the community pitched in (with a
nice subtlety) - so I never saw or heard of a problem. But I did get one
comment from a person of challenged vision. who thanked me for not making
him a special, stand out person. just one more people. Needless to say it
was not me doing/not doing anything. But you get the drift. Unless somebody
has suddenly gone blind, they do make it in the world, and with the light
touch of a caring community (and what else do you have in OS?), everything
seemed to work out just fine.

 

Harrison

 

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[mailto:oslist-bounces at lists.openspacetech.org] On Behalf Of Harold Shinsato
Sent: Saturday, January 19, 2013 12:12 AM
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Subject: [OSList] Supporting the blind at an open space event

 

Some friends in Missoula Montana are holding an open space event about
digital accessibility March 9 this year.
http://accessibilitycampmissoula.org/

Looking over the records I found fewer posts about this than I expected. I
saw posts about supporting 1 blind person, but they will have at least seven
and I don't think they'll have enough volunteers to support one helper each.
So they are thinking about some kind of ipad readers around the session
postings.

How has the community here provided accessibility to the blind, especially
for the schedule wall?

    Thanks in Advance!
    Harold

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Harold Shinsato
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