How many blind people use the Cellar?
 

:welcome:

In the '80s it became fasionable to hire an on-stage sign language artist to sign the song lyrics at folk music concerts.

i would hate to hear some of these threads being read out by those talking computers. can u imagine going through the sex thread?!? or the Do you pee in the shower thread?!?! hahah


unless of course you mean blind drunk people.. in which case i have been a blind dweller on a number of occasions.

how could a blind person benefit from that RS? :)

they do that here still for the comedy festivals etc for the deaf people.

As long as one of UT's bass line brothers is in the band the deaf can feel the love as well.

It was for the hearing people to feel policitically correct. Just show.

Uncle Griff -

ive always wondered how cool that would be to go into a concert being a deaf person and just see the swarms dancing and grooving to the silence, and then to feel the bass in your chest in time with them.

At which point most deaf people realized how absolutely banal the lyrics to most songs were in the 80's when presented without the music.

I rest my case.

I love the SNL bit when Garrett Morris was a "shouter" for the "News For The Hard Of Hearing" :lol:

There's a pee in the shower thread?? How did I miss that?

blind?

Not "a" thread... there were actually two of them! :3eye:

Seriously, kagen, you need a slapping.

Steve - I must search these threads out.

if youre going to be the one doing it ducks, then slap away.

of course, I live by....'if you want something done right, do it yoursef'...what time do you knock off work? :p

me? work? :lol: thats precious!

err, my mistake :p

im still a student of the one true god...


...science. 5th year at uni.

ohhh, I will be slapping a school boy....how fun for me :D

the next person to say peeing has smelly feet

I don't think Kagen will be peeing in the shower

my previous post was edited because it was meant for a different topic and thread and i have no idea how it ended up here

Blonde moment perhaps? ;)

Blind people? I haven't seen any here. And they haven't seen me either.

I used to let a blind lady braille me. :cool:

i thought you let a blind man rail you?

I mentioned in another thread that, as of vB 3.5, the registration process involves a "captcha":

http://cellar.org/2006/captchaexample.jpg

The system creates an image of several letters or numbers that a real human has to read and re-enter, to prove they are not automation.

The down side of this is that no blind people can register for the Cellar. Their programs can't read the captcha.

I realize that this thread was not created to ask the question, but I thought it was interesting anyway.

Hopefully a blind person could get some help to handle that captcha. I see it used so much, they would surely have run into it before. I'd be real curious if we have any blind members or lurkers. :confused:

I've worked with some of those screen reader programs. They're basically un-usable on a site this complex anyway.

Most of the women in my life say that I am... does that count?

Pete just told me she's seen a handicap button on some sights that takes you to another registration process.

"she's seen a handicap button"

hmmm

see...you mama was right. :p

there is a logic hole there somewhere...