EP 007: Blindness in the Built Environment

In 2012, members of Portland's local National Federation of the Blind Chapter organized an event called, "It's Not Scary to Be Blind: Walk With Me!" as part of Walktober. Folks during this event talked about aspects of our transportation environment that are both helpful and possibly not so helpful for the blind and low vision. For this episode of "Why Isn't Anyone...?" we were lucky to have a few active members of the Portland Central Chapter of National Federation of the Blind to talk about blindness in the built environment: Jim Jackson is Co-founder of the local Portland Central Chapter of National Federation of the Blind; Trevor Attenberg is the local chapter's Treasurer; and Nik Petersson is Senior Accessibility Consultant with Miles Access Skills Training, LLC. The National Federation of the Blind is the organization that believes in the full capacity of blind people, and has the power, influence, diversity, and determination to help transform their dreams into reality. Today’s show was produced by me, Steph Routh; and edited by Eric Klein. You can find us on our Facebook page and on Twitter @whyisntanyone. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or your feed of choice. If you liked this show, help us keep it going by donating via our website, whyisntanyone.com, where you can also leave us comments, questions, and ideas for future topics. Here are the people who have supported us on Crowdrise: Aaron Brown, Abra McNair, Alan Kessler, Amos, Anonymous, Audrey Addison, Breesa Culver, Caroline and Paul Z, Carolynn Szczepanski, Chris Smith, CJ Walker, Cory Dodt, Dan Gebhart, Doug Klotz, Emily N, fool, Heidi Guenin, Jessica Holliday, K. Bott, Kailin, Kim Harrison, Mark Lear, Matt Luce, Michael Andersen, Mychal Tetteh, Peter Welte, Pogo Crowe, Starlene Rankin, Steph Routh, Stephanie Noll, Steve Bozzone, Susan Peithman, The Sprocket Podcast, Thomas Ngo, Timo Forsberg, Timothy Zork, and Vivian Satterfield. We are a project of Umbrella, a Portland-based nonprofit that encourages community-based street culture. We’ll be back with another episode in two weeks. In the meantime, keep asking, “Why isn’t anyone talking about this?” Because they should, and we are.