Re: So you think your site is easy to navigate?? Try this .....
by Kym Jones <kjones(at)adam.com.au>
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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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