Originally Posted by
Souvlaki
1. Lots of people are visually impaired.
2. Lots of non-visually-impaired people are functionally illiterate, or perhaps they are literate but not in any of the languages offered in your brochure.
Moral of the story: you are not the only person on the plane and what works for you does not necessarily work for everyone else. Seriously, 5 minutes of announcements at the start of a 10-hour flight (even at the start of a short-haul) just isn't a big deal. Learn to tune it out.
Originally Posted by
tinchote
For that matter, there is also deaf people and/or people who is not fluent is the languages used in the announcements.
Love it. So now you go to the other end of the spectrum: accommodate everyone imaginable, or don't bother trying to accommodate anyone at all (read: just accommodate me and then I'll leave it alone). This is a favourite tactic of those who want to make simple and relatively painless accommodations as painful as possible so that they won't be implemented at all.
This logical fallacy needs a name:
accommodatio ad adsurdum perhaps?