On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Karen Ball wrote:
> Our students do not use [indeed, the Colege does not have!]
> "special" phones - I would be surprised if a visually impaired
> student in HE doesn't already know how to use a standard telephone.
> Most keypads have a "blob" on numeral 5, which helps with
> orientation, which is all that usually is required.
With phones increasingly being produced with letters on the keys, some
people are publishing their numbers in 'word' form: I wonder whether
braille would help with entering the correct number, or would three
letters to a key cause a problem?
> By the way, the majority of our students [200ish] have a mobile
> phone!
Well, that should help finding a phone... or help people running
buildings to find an excuse not to put adequate signs up...
Ben F
PS: please let me know if there is a rule against posting twice in a day,
as there is on some other lists...
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