Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Hi.@dark, yeah, the transport here is much better than in the states. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/485625/#p485625 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Lol Arjan, the cane thing really is bonkers. @Dan_Gero, yes that disability adviser was a complete idiot, she was upholding the fact that the university light opera society told me they couldn't have a blind person on stage, and obviously I

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored I agree. I'm not sure what kind of school it was that was being talked about, but I remember when I was in public school, kids would throw their backpacks in the middle of the aisles when they would sit at their desks, and nobody said a

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored I would just like to say that I'm thoroughly amused by the argument that canes are apparently not allowed due to being a tripping hazard. This school apparently never considered the possibility that people (or other objects for that matter

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Yeah, I stand by what I've said before, although not on here. I would love to come to the UK, but I will NEVER move there, Precisely because of those social reasons you gave. I do not tolerate people saying things like that, and I think I

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Okay to answer a few questions here. firstly Yes, as Dardar said, the UK has plenty of equality laws, and legally a blind person can't be banned using mobility aides everywhere. the problem however is that either the laws are not recognis

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Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored No @8 I actually agree with the hospital in that situation. I've spent enough tim in them to understand why they do things a certain way, I may not always agree with the doctors and nursing staff...but I do agree on this. Because a hospita

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored @6: further evidence toward the stereotype of blind people being dependent on other people. if I can go there, I'll do it myself thanks very much, and anyone that tries to stop me is not gonna go unnoticed. if that sort of thing happen

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Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Also @3: That's Lord Blunkett you're on about. I'm fairly sure he's still a Labour peer. Also Gordon Brown was nearly in the same situation as well. At least I seem to remember one interview stating he was afraid he was l

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Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored I'll jump inFrom the UK, we're not going to be in the EU much longer now Boris got back in and if he keeps his word.Also, I've seen both sides of it. My blindie college allowed canes. Outside. They weren't allowed inside due

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored fuck media they do that all the time, we turkish people know that verry well, lol, propaganda is shit man. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/485314/#p485314 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Can't comment from the rest, but I've seen this story being published as well. It's not a new one... it's based on a video on youtube where this was reported and it's from 2015. Yet people are stil bringing it up

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Hello,So from the perspective of someone in the UK, I would have to say, in answer to the original question: no.For the longest time, I think he still is serving but I might be wrong, there was a blind member of parliament.To that extent, there

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Re: Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored Hi,well, I'm not english, so I can't tell for them, but UK is still in EU, what means their law must be up with the international norms, the same which we have in Slovakia.Infact, not just one can't ban you from using a white cane

Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored

Are Blind People in the UK being Ignored This might sound like a weird question, but I just read a story of how a parent of a blind child was told by the head of their school that she was not allowed to bring a caine into the school anymore, as it posed a risk to students and staff. This