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A review by shanaqui
Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell
informative
medium-paced
4.0
A while back, I was a volunteer for the RNIB (that's the Royal National Institute for the Blind, in the UK), which means I have a bit more awareness of the accessibility options for the blind in the UK (and in general). Even so, I was trained by a sighted person, and all the volunteers I knew were fully sighted. Maud Rowell's Blind Spot makes me wonder what, in consequence, we missed.
If you're curious about accessibility for blind people (not just in the UK, but also in Japan), about experiencing art and museums as a blind person, being a visual artist while blind, and lost blind role models, this is definitely one for you.
It's short, like all books in the Inklings series, and thus it can't possibly be exhaustive -- but it's a window into that world, nonetheless.
If you're curious about accessibility for blind people (not just in the UK, but also in Japan), about experiencing art and museums as a blind person, being a visual artist while blind, and lost blind role models, this is definitely one for you.
It's short, like all books in the Inklings series, and thus it can't possibly be exhaustive -- but it's a window into that world, nonetheless.