RantWoman is currently Zooming at the American Council of the Blind Presidential update and legislative seminar. RantWoman is impatient about waiting for session videos to show up on YouTube or through acbmedia.org . RantWoman here wants to leave enough breadcrumbs that readers will be able to look up a fireside chat among blind CEO's of 4 different organizations. Find the video. Appreciate all the experiences and insight.
RantWoman's favorite story: ACB President Dan Spoone spoke of a time when he and a team of other Siemens employees were doing some kind of presentation in Germany. Dan had memorized key points of the Powerpoint presentation in order to add comments as his colleague presented. As the program moved along, Dan would point to a lighted rectangle and make his comments. Finally one of the people who worked for him yelled at him to STOP. It turned out every time Dan spoke, he was pointing at the window instead of the Powerpoint on the opposite wall!
One problem with Zoom webinars is that no one can hear the chuckles.
RantWoman was telling this story to a friend. Friend asked "How DO blind people watch ...?"
RantWoman decided to pass on the opportunity to gripe about someone being metaphor challenged. Instead RantWoman's friend got the standard issue tour of RantWoman's visual experiences: fog, blur, double vision, grow your own lava lamp floaters all complicated by bifocals so that RantWoman can see between 0 and about 5 of any given object. RantWoman has yet to meet any Powerpoint that can compete with that although RantWoman's issues with glare MIGHT save her from unintentionally pointing at any windows.
No comments:
Post a Comment