GSFS 303 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Louis Braille, World Intellectual Property Organization, Sizeism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 303
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Blindness in visual culture: impact on self and other. Redefining assistive technology: universal design and mainstream access. Fighting the book famine: the marrakesh treaty. Audio description: sayings of the blind by william stratford. Different perspectives you gain when think about things from non-visual perspective. This perspective can provide you with valuable insight: true or false . Legally blindness is arbitrary definition, starting point to access services and programs when they are available. People at border of legal blindness still have quite a bit of sight. People who are blind do not have superior sense, just have more experience than people who are sighted to pay attention and develop other senses. In that past, most blindness was diagnosed at birth but has changed in western world. Another misconception is that closing your eyes simulates what it"s like to be blind. Blindness as compensatory or miraculous power: seers, superheroes and the super-crip .