Blind Guy Travels 7: Crossing the Street
Radiotopia Presents: We're Doing the Wiz
Radiotopia
4.3 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Independence. It’s a word that’s used in the blind community often, but that means different things to different people. What does independence mean for Matthew? On the heels of his Senior Recital and college graduation, Matthew ruminates on what might be next for him.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Radiotopia presents from PRX's Radiotopia. |
| 0:06.0 | The thing we are applying to is the SICPP. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm in my dad's home office filling out an application form. |
| 0:21.0 | SICPP. |
| 0:24.0 | dot org. |
| 0:26.8 | And then you hit enter. |
| 0:28.0 | SICPP. |
| 0:30.0 | This is a regular occurrence for us whether I'm applying for college |
| 0:34.1 | grad school singing competitions technology development grants basically anything with an online form |
| 0:40.9 | I'm filling out your form. Technically these websites are |
| 0:46.6 | accessible for blind people but my screen reader can only relay the words not |
| 0:51.4 | the layout. No lines, no columns, and no boxes. Just raw text that I have to |
| 0:58.2 | listen through in search of clues for what goes where. So I simply write up all the text on my own and then ask my dad to |
| 1:08.1 | help paste it into the right boxes. And as if I needed another reminder that this form was not designed with me in mind, there are the security questions. |
| 1:21.0 | Security question, what is your favorite color? Your favorite color and your first |
| 1:28.6 | car. What was the maker for first car. I haven't neither. |
| 1:33.0 | Where did you spend your honeymoon |
| 1:35.0 | with your favorite superhero? |
| 1:37.0 | But we find one that works and move on. |
| 1:39.0 | I guess we could do the superhero one? |
| 1:42.0 | Ah. That was all. do the superhero one? I've always been. I've always been close. I've always been close with my parents and |
| 1:51.1 | still rely on their help for things like annoying online forums and with my |
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