Comments on: Basic assistive technology etiquette http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/basic-assistive-technology-etiquette/ reviews of assistive tech, how-to, etc. Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:03:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: hand2mouth http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/basic-assistive-technology-etiquette/#comment-355 hand2mouth Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:02:25 +0000 http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/?p=455#comment-355 Ha! Yes, number 3. I get that all the time too. It reminds me of a great comeback I read on a blog once, but I can't remember where I found it -- the upshot was that some condescending person or other walked up to a girl in a wheelchair and said all sweet like, "I wish I had your chair, it's so neat," and the girl replied, "I wish I had your legs." Sometimes I feel like retorting to someone who does this quite often, "It's so cool that your hands work! Can I borrow them?" Fortunately, though, none of my coworkers has ever tried the old "Delete" chestnut. I hope you don't get that one a lot! Ha! Yes, number 3. I get that all the time too. It reminds me of a great comeback I read on a blog once, but I can’t remember where I found it — the upshot was that some condescending person or other walked up to a girl in a wheelchair and said all sweet like, “I wish I had your chair, it’s so neat,” and the girl replied, “I wish I had your legs.”
Sometimes I feel like retorting to someone who does this quite often, “It’s so cool that your hands work! Can I borrow them?”
Fortunately, though, none of my coworkers has ever tried the old “Delete” chestnut. I hope you don’t get that one a lot!

]]> By: deborah http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/basic-assistive-technology-etiquette/#comment-354 deborah Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:36:41 +0000 http://hand2mouth.wordpress.com/?p=455#comment-354 dictation etiquette points, the you would not believe how often they come up: 1. If I am dictating within earshot of you, it is NOT FUNNY or in any way amusing for you to occasionally yell "Delete! Delete!" as if you were talking to my computer. 2. If I am dictating within earshot of you, it is polite to pretend that you can't hear me, just as it is polite to pretend that you can't see your coworkers in their three-walled cubes. If I am dictating to somebody else do not carry on a conversation with me as if the things I am saying are being addressed to you. 3. Please don't watch me dictate and then say "that is the coolest thing I've ever seen! I wish I could do it! Can I play?" That's pretty much like walking up to somebody in a wheelchair and saying "it's so cool that you can run that thing! Can I use it?" ... Wait, you probably do that too, don't you? dictation etiquette points, the you would not believe how often they come up:

1. If I am dictating within earshot of you, it is NOT FUNNY or in any way amusing for you to occasionally yell “Delete! Delete!” as if you were talking to my computer.

2. If I am dictating within earshot of you, it is polite to pretend that you can’t hear me, just as it is polite to pretend that you can’t see your coworkers in their three-walled cubes. If I am dictating to somebody else do not carry on a conversation with me as if the things I am saying are being addressed to you.

3. Please don’t watch me dictate and then say “that is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen! I wish I could do it! Can I play?” That’s pretty much like walking up to somebody in a wheelchair and saying “it’s so cool that you can run that thing! Can I use it?”

… Wait, you probably do that too, don’t you?

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