Benjamin Levicek Many visually impaired people aim to integrate as best as possible into the mainstream community. Whether a particular person with a visual handicap is more communicative or rather taciturn, it is practically impossible for them not to surprise other people around them with something. Although it may not seem so at first glance, quite a lot of unexpected situations occur when a normal user sees a blind person operating a mobile phone. In these lines, we will show the phrases that blind people hear a lot when using technology, and we will explain why this is so.
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Would you like to help turn on the phone?
It has happened to me several times that I was scrolling through social networks or replying to someone in public and some stranger asked me the aforementioned question. At first I put on an uncomprehending expression, but then I realized what it was all about. Not only me, but also most other non-visual users have the screen off all the time on their electronic devices. Some sighted people are initially confused by this and until they hear the smartphone talking, they think that the blind person has the phone turned off.
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How can you understand that speech? They don't even speak Czech.
If you use voice output to operate your device every day, after a while you will find that unnecessarily long conversations delay your work. Fortunately, the voice can be speeded up, so most blind people get used to the highest speed that can be set on the device. However, those around them rarely understand this - the phones, tablets and computers of the visually impaired speak incomprehensibly to the normal ear. However, it is not at all the case that visually impaired people have significantly better hearing. Rather, they focus more on it and on the other senses, so it could be said that thanks to this they have it "trained".
You look funny when you're on your phone and you're not looking at it at all.
Right from the start, it will probably sound logical to you that especially the blind, who have been blind since birth, or have lost it shortly after, have poorer visual imagination. So it is not at all unusual that they are on the phone, but with the display turned away from their eyes. It wouldn't matter so much, that is, if their screen is off. However, for example, I have had the screen on and turned it directly to the individual sitting across from me while I was "discussing" them with another person via private messages.
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Why are you texting me when I'm two meters away from you?
If you are not too noisy and at the same time you do not notify your friend with a visual disability that you are there, he has little chance of recognizing it. When you have an appointment and he is waiting for you, it is not out of place to come up to him and greet him first, even if he seems disinterested at first glance. Then it can easily happen that he will write you a message where you are, and you will just shyly stand a little away from him.
