Re: So you think your site is easy to navigate?? Try this .....

by Kym Jones <kjones(at)adam.com.au>

 Date:  Tue, 05 Jun 2001 11:22:50 +0930
 To:  hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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Hear!! hear!!! well said...we take so many things in life for granted.

Kym



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>Incidentally, I was astonished that blind people don't get any kind of 
>assistance to purchasing this software or other products for the blind - 
>from their health insurance or from the social welfare or the Institute 
>for the Blind or anyone.   Our health system gets other people things like 
>wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs, even false teeth, hearing aids etc, but 
>here is a product that will enable blind people to takea part in the 
>world, and they have to cough up $2000 for the privelege.  The rest of us 
>get browsers for free or near free or included with the system software, 
>the blind have to kick in a huge amount.   I think when it comes to health 
>and rehabilitation and support for people with disabilities,  we have 
>organised our society all wrong dont you?   I'm not sure how it ought to 
>be organised, but I think it's wrong that people can have to pay all that 
>money out for basic things when somehow or other our health or welfare 
>system or support system could surely help out.
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