Louise Bremner wrote:

> Drew Hamilton <awh@awh.org> wrote:
>
> > >Same for the much of the rest of the city or society. It's as if people with
> > >physical disabilities including many elderly, are simply meant to stay at
> > >home if they can't manage alone.
> >
> > I've always wondered why Japan seemed to be so advanced in terms
> > of providing assistance to blind people by means of a lot of
> > braille in public places, textured floors in the train stations,
> > etc., but so far behind in providing for people with other
> > disabilities.  Anyone ever come up with a reasonable explanation?
>
> It's relatively simple and cheap to provide braille and textured tiles,
> in comparison to elevators and completely level floor surfaces?

Yes, but they have all the television shows with voice-over as well. It is true
that braille publications in Japan are sorrowfully few. There was a news story on
the Braille library in Tokyo once. Only a few thousand volumes, and staffed by
volunteers who have to send things by post.

OTOH, hearing impaired don't have closed captioned programming.

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