Re: discrimination (was: Untouchables [Andreas J., please read])

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:

> --- Robert Jung <RobertMJung@...> wrote:
>
> > In some books I've found this notice: 'This
> > work is produced for persons with a perceptual
> > disability as per the Canadian Copyright Act.
> > [...]'. This really gets me mad, because
> > 'perception' is not just visual; it's also
> > mindual (= adjectivized form of 'mind') and
> > aural etc. And the book I'm quoting from was
> > put into Braille in 2002!!!!!!!
>
> My guess is that in Canadian legalese,
> "perceptual disability" is defined as some level
> of blindness.
That may be so, but it *really* sounds like someone with a mental illness
to me: psychosis or the like. What's wrong with a visual disability? If
someone has trouble realising that no-one is talking to them and their
hand really is perfectly normal, how is printing in brail going to help
them?

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Tristan