[blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

[Jim Barbour]

I'm curious, what would be the legal basis be for a suit against Dish,
comcast, Direct TV, etc?

Jim

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:57:38PM -0800, Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS) wrote:
> If anyone is looking for another possible case, how about the complete
> lack of accessibility of my Dish Network satellite video tuner/recorder?
> I assume the same lack of access exists for all the satellite and cable
> system video recorders used by all those companies.
> 
> The unit is essentially a computer, with a hard drive and an operating
> system.  There are a series of menus, left and right arrow options, a
> button to select, etc.  It strikes me that it would not be a hard task
> to put speech output into that operating system, especially since it is
> a set amount of options and commands.  Just for fun, I asked DISH
> Network about a set of instructions so that a blind person could operate
> their video recorder.  Needless to say, they had nothing.
> 
> Yes, I can change/select channels, but that is about it.  The rest of it
> involves too many steps and series of choices, and the choices vary
> depending upon the situation, so I doubt that much could be done even
> with a long series of steps to take, with no way of confirming what you
> have done.  
> 
> Sincerely,
> Tim Ford
> 
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