Comment by gscott
17 hours ago
According to the cdc 1 million.people are blind and 7 million people have serious vision impairment.
It would be cheaper to pay 60k a year per blind person to hire them a full time guid for waling outside.
17 hours ago
According to the cdc 1 million.people are blind and 7 million people have serious vision impairment.
It would be cheaper to pay 60k a year per blind person to hire them a full time guid for waling outside.
Ok, but curb cuts also positively impact wheelchair users, people with canes or walkers, people with injuries that require crutches or a knee scooter, parents with strollers, people with rolling bags, cyclists, delivery workers and more. They are widely understood to benefit many many people beyond just people with disabilities (so much so that their benefit has given a name to the "curb cut effect").
Also, $60k/year is a) not nearly enough to pay a contractor full time living wage and b) not enough to cover the greater than full time necessary to assist someone. Blind people need to navigate the world at all hours on all days...