[access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
- From: "Ibrahim Gucukoglu" <ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 13:09:53 -0000
Hi Jackie.
Thanks for your support. In many ways I'm glad I'm not a braille user or
have to rely on Braille precisely because of the cost of it, but it is
useful in situations like labelling and obviously playing cards. Some smart
ass emailed me privately earlier to suggest that my friend and I get online
and play with one of the many casino style online multiplayer accessible
games out there, sort of symbolises how blind people have come to rely on
technology so much and cant do anything without it. It's so so sad in many
ways but there you are.
All the best, Ibrahim.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Cairns
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 12:52 PM
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
Hi Peter
Yes you could, quite easily, with a Perkins and some time. But why should
you when the RNIB sell them on their online shop? I'm not having a pop,
just agreeing with Ibrahim that it's not fair.
Kind Regards,
Jackie Cairns
-----Original Message-----
From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Peter Beasley
Sent: 05 February 2012 10:38
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Chancing the cards?
I have no idea what a pack of cards costs in an ordinary shop, but my
suggestion is just to buy one and obviously with sighted assistance, Braille
them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Ibrahim Gucukoglu <mailto:ibrahim_gucukoglu@xxxxxxxx>
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:10 AM
Subject: [access-uk] Chancing the cards?
Hi Everyone.
I know we’ve discussed games on here in the past, so I thought I’d
raise this issue as it raises my hackles somewhat. I was on the RNIB online
shop this morning looking for brailed playing cards, and was shocked to
discover that these cards cost £7.26, while the standard printed cards cost
less than half this at £3.5. For an organisation that claims to promote
equal access, this is hardly an encouragement to take up a new hobbies or
interest as it penalises those of us who must use braille. A couple of sets
of these cards would set me back a Wapping £14.5, an outrageous amount of
money considering that the work required to adapt these cards IE putting a
suit and numeric denominator on each hardly merits such an inflated price.
Thoughts anyone?
All the best, Ibrahim.
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