Last year my stepmother asked me to help her set up a blog. I had never done it, but I was sure that we could do it together. She needed to set up a new e mail address, I am very familiar with that. So she chooses a name and it won't work, so I ask her to read the name to me (I couldn't read the screen) and I could tell her why it wasn't working. She refused to do it, she was afraid that I would use her e mail. So I told her that without her cooperation I would not be able to help her. Eventually my husband (who has good vision) came in and helped her.
She had typed the whole address into the name field. So it looked like joniname@gmail.com When all she was supposed to write was joniname, and the server would have added the gmail part.
It was a simple problem that I could have easily helped her with, but because she was not willing to read it to me I could not. As if that were not bad enough, she made me feel like I was stupid!
So the lesson here is that blind people can be very helpful if you are not a paranoid person.
As a blind person it pisses me off that people associate intelligence with being able bodied.
