October 13 Disabilities Awareness Item

Hi Friends

This Is just two informational items about National White Cane Safety Day. No zippy bullet points exactly though the first item contains a small dose of daily rant. The second item is just a reprinted press release. I have not looked at the info but I need to keep the link and sometimes use my blogs as a filing cabinet …

http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2011/09/building-bridges-of-accessibility-walk.html


http://rantwoman.blogspot.com/2011/10/new-acb-pedestrian-safety-handbook.html


As an aside, blind people in the US are almost as good at schisms as Friends: one national blind consumer organization refers to itself as “The Voice of the Nation’s Blind.” The other refers to itself as “Aemerica’s leading ….” It’s nice they agree about White Cane day.

Topics to file that I may or may not get to:
Appropriate interaction with people’s mobility aids.

Other resources about curb cuts and walkability: curb cuts were originally designed for wheelchairs, but a whole lot of people pushing strollers and pulling various handcarts also use them. My mother’s opinion of the week: they are great but in Seattle they really need drainage.

“The wonders of sneaker-net” Just because of being at the right combination of meetings I get to email some telecomm executives about an issue to do with curb cuts and broadband deployment. In other words, Quakers are not the only ones seasoning various modes of meetings, what one does or does not expect of different meeting media, and why sometimes meetings in person really are the shortest route to the right information.

In the Light.

(RantWoman)