ethical dilemmas
No artigo “Vision to see”, I tied a hook to continue the theme: audio description.
Maybe you're thinking: but how does someone who was born blind see colors and shapes if they're not touched? If he doesn't have a visual memory, what's the reference? Therefore, if your customers are the blind, nothing more natural than listening, asking and learning, and not just studying. This chat is for another article, because it has a lot of cool story to tell.
More than stories, a compendium!
My partner Marcia and I have already done quite a bit of research on: how to describe colors to the blind?
Field research, of course. Or dark, anyway.
The spark that ignited our Facebook page was sparked by a description, where we named something with the color ocher.
OCREATURE! It was worse than cursing everyone's mother!
People on social media love controversy, but there's always someone in a good mood who prefers "and that's that".
While some said they didn't know what ocher was and others tried to explain it, a boy blind from birth ended the conversation like this:
“Guys, I've never seen the colors, I don't even know if I see everything white or everything black, how will I know what's light or dark? ”
Cri cri cri…total vacuum.
We might as well have taken a coffee break, but we gulped down our saliva and set off for more information exchanges.
Some blind people see light or dark and even colored lights. And they know.
But in this boy's case, he doesn't know.
We all have sensory memories. Colors are directly linked to the sensations of touch, smell, taste, there is always color, and mine will never be the same as yours.
What you say is blue might be a little greener for me.
Associating colors with sensations is a good method: caramel brown; light blue eyes the color of a summer sky; blood red, blue and reddish orange fire, and thus each one imagines the color that his perception reaches.
And going back to ocher, scholars say it is the oldest organic pigment used to leave records in caves.
Ocher leaves on Canadian trees in autumn, faded between shades of golden yellow and yellowish brown.
Ocher of warm welcome, when the sun sinks in the late afternoon behind the brown mountains.
Describing it like this, the eyes of imagination paint life in many colors.
Believe it! Seeing is believing.
A big accessible hug!
See how interesting this report by BBC journalist Damon Rose is: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/noticias/2015/03/150302_cego_escuridao_lab
You may also like another article by this author. Access: What the eyes don't see, the mouth tells and the mind understands
