Discrimination is nothing new.
What do blind members want sighted users to do about
the issue?
Should we also refuse to comply until the discrimination
stops?
Are there any other suggestions to obstruct the nondisabled
census? The DDA will not help.
Keith
On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 12:42:30 +0100 Colin Revell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Andy and others
>
> I have writing difficulties and the same happened to me on Thursday.
>
> I rang up the Disability Rights Commission to complain, that I should be
> able to have the 'census' provided in different formats as a 'right', under
> the DDA. I did not accept the census form on the grounds that it is
> inaccessible to meet my learning needs.
>
> I asked the women delivering to ask to have the form in audio-tape or
> e-mail. She did inform me it is available
> in braille and large print, but not in the format I required.
>
> As I have said I have taken my case to the DRC and waiting for them to get
> back to me after the holiday period on Tuesday.
>
> I am always making similar complaints to the DRC and experience this problem
> all the time with the 'public-authorities' and others who I always receive
> information in a format which I feel 'excluded' and then I have difficulties
> accessing this information and responding, in which is also a barrier to me
> learning from various information sources, especially books etc, due to
> print sensitivity.
>
> There are many individuals in the U.K. who are on the profile of Autistic
> Spectrum Disorders and Specific Learning Difficulties, but 'our' learning
> needs are ignored and there has to be radical changes in the way information
> in provided and assumptions that we all learn in one-way.
>
> As said, I myself have problems with accessing books, due to having
> sensitivity to black and white print, due to having Scotopic Sensitivity
> Irlen Syndrome, in which research is showing that 1 in 3 people experience
> difficulties with black and white print and have the own preferred colours.
> Research was carried out by Exeter
> University in schools and 1 and 3 children experienced print sensitivity.
>
> Regards
>
> Colin Revell
>
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