Oh the irony

[Oakie]

So we have this Kyocera printer in our office. It has three buttons on the top and beside each, the manufacturers in a moment of PC largesse, placed little braille raised dots for the blind to navigate their way around the printer controls. Does anyone else recognise the flaw in this plan? Take your time. It took me 14 months to realise the irony.

[unstuck]

It prints in brail?

[Hitcher]

It prints normally. Having printed something, a blind recipient would be nonethewiser as to whether it had printed any text or image unless able to interrogate a normally-sighted person.

Almost as ironic as having Braille legends on your motorcycle's switches.

[Oakie]

Well it's a clever printer and can do some pretty cool stuff but printing in Braille is not one of them.

[Oakie]

Almost as ironic as having Braille legends on your motorcycle's switches.

Yeah. I did wonder if I should post this for fear of upsetting the blind but then I thought that there probably aren't too many blind motorcyclists around to offend.

[scumdog]

Yeah. I did wonder if I should post this for fear of upsetting the blind but then I thought that there probably aren't too many blind motorcyclists around to offend.

Or blind KB members...

[FJRider]

Yeah. I did wonder if I should post this for fear of upsetting the blind but then I thought that there probably aren't too many blind motorcyclists around to offend.

I seem to find plenty of blind car drivers ...

[bogan]

Maybe for partially sighted? Or maybe it's a set of buttons common to other stuff as well.

[bogan]

Yeah. I did wonder if I should post this for fear of upsetting the blind but then I thought that there probably aren't too many blind motorcyclists around to offend.

Blind people don't tend to get upset everytime somebody mentions blindness, the ones I know are generally in good humour about it. One painted her guide dog's toe-nails pink just for a laugh, was quite clever cos people didn't figure she had done it

[MIXONE]

It cracks me up to see the National Anthem signed for the deaf at the rugby.
PC to the max.

[Katman]

Is there a button that makes the letters this big?

[James Deuce]

We have a visually impaired chap in our office. He writes a great deal better than many with the ability to instantly review their own handiwork and most assuredly uses the printer on a daily basis, without the benefit of Braille labels on the touch screen controls. He has memorized the touch screen controls and can recall verbatim the words he commits to the page that he shares with others in meetings and presentations.

[Hitcher]

It cracks me up to see the National Anthem signed for the deaf at the rugby.
PC to the max.

Actually, it's not PC. Sign is New Zealand's third official language and therefore just as entitled to prominence national anthem wise as Te Reo and English. It still looks like a Tai Chi version though.

[yungatart]

We have a visually impaired chap in our office. He writes a great deal better than many with the ability to instantly review their own handiwork and most assuredly uses the printer on a daily basis, without the benefit of Braille labels on the touch screen controls. He has memorized the touch screen controls and can recall verbatim the words he commits to the page that he shares with others in meetings and presentations.

I worked with a visually impaired student last year. She could memorise 600-800 word essays for her English (1 essay for each possible topic), and spit them out perfectly for exams...being her writer was hard work! She would do the same for media studies and drama...amazing kid!

[gwigs]

I reckon its great how all cheese graters are in Braille....