Jer wrote, "I don't know that a reasonable case could be made for vision--the rare visual questions could be skipped, and although a person might be at a disadvantage in not being able to read body language, that's not a critical game element. List and mathematical bonuses where it helps to have paper and pencil might also be an issue, although more time could be allotted to do such things with a braille writer." Probably there are several people here who remember him better than I do, but about four or five years ago, one of Stanford's best players was blind, Brad Harris, I think was his last name. I only played against him once, in IMs, he was a darn good CBI player. I don't know of any instances where he required special accomodations that people found unreasonable. I would kind of assume that teams would agree in advance to ditch visual bonuses if his team got them. Obviously a deaf player would have been a much bigger issue. I'd tend to think that if you had a whole team from a school from the deaf, they would have no problem bringing along someone who could translate into sign language if the moderator agreed to read slowly enough. That would still leave a little lag time between when the other guys heard it and when he did, and a lot would depend on the skill and honesty of the translating guy. Certainly if a team from a school for the deaf showed up at a tournament I was running and said "we'd like to play, and we'll have this guy here translate, and we understand we may be at a disadvantage but we'd like to play anyway," I'd certainly allow it, although for propriety's sake, I'd probably find my own translator if I could, but that's unlikely. Cheers, Kemezis
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