Category: the Rant Board
Any of you ever have the lovely situation where you're working on JAWS and someone comes around and asks you the big 20 questions? Is that a letter? A memo? Does that read all the important stuff? Is that your typing you're reading? Can you type fast? Can you cook? What the f*** is your problem??? Leave me alone. It is never the bright people, of course, who afflict these kinds of quizzes on us, but for god sake, I mean, it is not even civilized sometimes!
yeah, I agree, a complete quiz for only one stupid question, at least, come up with new ones, or be creative. But... all those kinds of tests or quizes are totally stupid
Heehee that happens to me a lot a lot at school! I get used to it...
Caitlin
yeah, I get that to...and I, like Caitlin, get used to it.
hehehe Leaffan, I know what ya mean. I'm in uni now, so I get the JAWS 20 questions all of the time! I just make it fun though, and let people push buttons. That usually makes m go away hahaha~! That or I show them the different languages that JAWS can speak! Anyway, for me like I said, it's not too bad. Like Katlynn and Allyson, I'm use to it, but it can get annoying to
Well, it's kind of annoying but it's usually always a new person that does it. I hate it when the same person comes over and over to ask, sometimes the same questions and just generally hanging around and thinking he/she is so cool because he/she is talking to the blind dude (or girl). That I can't stand, but if new people come over and are curious about Jaws I think it's cool, hey, at least they are curious enough to ask and don't think you're some type of freak who can't talk or something. So even if it's annoying it's sort of cool in a way too :) so just make Jaws tell them to go away <grin> that might scare them .. or slow Jaws down all the way and put the pitch up to 97 and type something and have Jaws read it, it's such a horrible horrible voice that I swear it'll scare people away. Also if you installed the "Glen" person (from the Jaws voices menu" .. I swear he's gay and I show people what I mean, and they usually agree with me.
cheers
-B
Well, if anyone has a question about jaws, I'm an open book! I'll answer any question. It draws the line when they are reading over my shoulder, and they want to know what site i'm on, or what document I'm reading. Besides that, the more questions, the better.
I'm the same way. if I'm in a doctor office, and people ask about how I work my laptop, I pull out the headphones from the jack, and type something. it really doesn't bother me.
I never really got questions in high school about JAWS, because the computer I used was in a little room off the library, so as not to disturb people. But if I did have it in an actual computer lab, i'd always use headphones.
love the chatrooms when they tell me I am not blind lol.
Well, they can't tell if you're blind in a chat room. Headphones are great. They allow more privacy as well.
A braille display is even better. No one can hear you at all, but my mom knows braille, so I don't use one.
It's not like she's constantly reading over your shoulder, or anything, so why worry about using a braille display? To amend my last post, none of the computers in the computer labs at school were accessible to me, just the one in the library.
hmm. I kept the screen off on my computer when I lived with my parents. If I had it on, they would try to read over my shoulder. It drove me battty.
As for the jaws thing, I do get asked questions, but I don't really mind that much, unless like someone else mentioned, the same person keeps asking the same questions. I think part of this is I want other people to understand things, and it's better than people just assuming things because they were too scared to ask questions. Probably also has something to do with the fact that I like teaching a bit and have given some presentations on accessible technology before.
You know, people do ask some awful questions! Really terrible ones sometimes. I know it's not on the topic of Jaws, but i've been asked some extremely stupid ones. 1 of the stupidest was, "So how do you tell when your eggs are boiled if you cen't see?" That threw me, as even sighties can't see through an eggshell!
The funniest thing i've ever been asked was by a lady of my own age. She turned to me, deadly serious, and asked, "If I poked you in the eye with this fork, would it hurt?" I pride myself on not laughing, no matter how stupid the questions are, but that time I just cracked up. I thought i'd busted a rib! It still tickles me to think about it.
FM
Some bratty little girl asked me how many fingers she was holding up. Knowing I couldn't see, she asked me such a stupid question.
download kids don't understand just what blindness means/ did you try explaining it to the "Bratty little girl?" I hope you were not mean about it, I mean maybe she just didn't get it. ever think of that? sorry for being mean but I mean you should think about that before getting upset about that.
There should have been a parent persent to explain it to the child in age-appropriate language.
Ah. Yeh, I've gotten the "how many fingers am I holding up" one more times than I have fingers or toes I think. But those stopped for the most part after I got to high school.
Er. Just for the record the word "one" wasn't supposed to be there. I have no idea why I wrote it.
I did explain as clearly as I could, but the brat just told me to shut up! She did, however, get in trouble for that and appoligized. I'm not upset anymore.
wow! she told you to shut up? just wow! that is just wrong! at least she did apoligize to you though.
when I went to camp at Duke university this summer, I was the only blind person there. My friend I made, Krystyn, thought jaws was sooooo cool and i let her have my laptop and she totally thought jaws was the funniest thing she'd ever seen.
But yeah, I get the 20 questions sometimes too.