Hi. I have been reading through a lot of these and understand a lot of the frustration that is out there. i know for myself it is very irritating that ovens and microwaves are now all button oriented instead of knobs and I hate that because I have to rely on a sighted person to put tape on the buttons so I know where they are since you cannot feel them by touch. I long for the days when they used knobs instead of this new way of doing things because it does feel like they are taking away some of the independence that we did have although I'm sure they are not thinking of it in that way. It's just becoming a more digital world now. And at stores in the checkout lines they have these computer cashregester that you do yourself that only the sighted can use. I know they still have it the old fashioned way but it they someday decide to go all do it yourself that will be another thing that the blind will have to deal with and work around. ANd whoever said you cannot shop withouth sighted assistance was absolutely right. Most products you can't tell one from another because there are some many different brands of cereal and hotdogs and sausages and so on that you need someone sighted to read you the labels. There are some things that have made it better for us like the Mac computer and other talking devices that have helped us and then there are the minuses that I've just listed. I guess maybe we have to realize that right now we just may have to put up with having to ask for help with certain things until someone invents something to help us with the things we can't do right now even though it is a huge pain in the butt sometimes. Especially when you know that all sighted people have to do is push a button or read a label and you can't do it. There are certain webb pages that voiceover will not read but a sighted person could click on to it and read what I cannot and it is very annoying because I want to beable to do the same things they are and why can't I. I am happy with the things I can do and just try to work hard to excel at those and the things I can't, I havae to accept help for right now. Hopefully, that will change someday.
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