I was in a hospital and the restrooms have the standard braile readable signs on them. Just the braile. Another sign says men or women.
Some idiot photocopied a brail sign for one men’s room, and taped it to the door as a replacement for the missing brail one. I don’t think a blind person can read the layer of toner on a photocopy with their fingers. I could be wrong. NOT!
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
—Mark Twain
Phobia: Some idiot photocopied a brail sign for one men’s room, and taped it to the door as a replacement for the missing brail one. I don’t think a blind person can read the layer of toner on a photocopy with their fingers. I could be wrong. NOT!
I saw the same sort of thing for an elevator. The metal plaque that said where the elevator went (parking garage) was broken. They photocopied the broken one, along with the Braille dots.
I realize that the alphabetical letters were all that were intended to be copied. It just looked funny to see photocopied Braille characters posted.
Poly, be sure you pick one of them pamphlets for me. Psychic repeat Psychic
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
—Mark Twain
Saw that stuff in the library I used to work at. Braille signs from a laser printer. The library had just been renovated, sure, months ago. It’s been what, two years now? Maybe I should go back and see if they’ve been replaced yet. . . maybe not
“I’m just too much for human existence – I should be animated.”
–Wayne Knight
Easy. If you can see, you know you can’t bring one in. Two, if you can’t see, you know you can bring one in cause obviously when you got your canine, you were instructed you could. Same thing with hearing ear canines, of which I used to have one.
handy: Yeah, my new drive-up ATM has the braille on the buttons. The first time I saw it, I was so amused that the insufficient funds message didn’t even bother me!
I don’t see why this is odd… it is there for two reasons, basically. First, to make it clear that by letting in seeing eye dogs they aren’t breaking their own policy, and second so that sighted people don’t throw a fit if a blind person comes in, yelling “hey! he can’t bring that dog in here!”
As for the braille on ATMs… why does this confuse so many people? They can’t possibly imagine a blind person in the back seat of a car, or walking up, etc? Or they think that the ATM manufacturing plant should set up a whole separate operation to specially make ATM buttons and faceplatess without braille just so drive thru banks don’t have to have braille? Come on. This isn’t hard to figure out, people.
One would assume that postal employees would know what their policy is and not need a reminder on the door. If you meant the customer, then point two is really just the response of the failure of some dolt to see that the service animal is not just someones pet.
My theory is that they didn’t use to have these signs and the combination of Guv’mint regulations and insensitive people doing exactly as you say in point two brought the signs about. I still think they are stupid, or at least are meant to shut up assholes that don’t know any better. Which now that I think about it, isn’t so stupid after all. I should have said here is a sign for stupid people