Daveed.Mandell@p0.f460.n101.z1.fidonet.org (Daveed Mandell) (12/07/90)
Index Number: 12397
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
I was amazed to learn from a friend
in Minneapololis that blind Minnesotans
can get material transcribed into braille or
recorded on tape free of charge! It's done
through State Services for the Blind!
What a great idea! Besides the regional library,
the state maintains a braille library and
a tape library. That means that poor folks can ask that
material be made aviable for tem, and that income will not
hprevent them acces to the written word.
I mention this because not evn your state provides such service,and
certainly not California where I live!
Your state seems t provide exemparyservice.
Yes, I realize you're in a buedgt crunch.
But after getting MAB's price list, I'm appalled that
blind residents of Massachusetts hav no recourse but to b able to
afford
those prices or d without braille and/or tape transcibption!
Seems quite unfair. There is a similar problem here in
California, butr with the plethora of gros, at least we
have a choice!
I think this lack of uniformity in proviion of braille
and recorded materials from state tostate is
grossly ufair and needs to b dalt with by the field!
Gosh,those Minesotans are lucky!
--Daveed--
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