[blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

[ckrugman at sbcglobal.net]

This applies to most advanced digital satellite or cable systems. I know 
that with Comcast everything is done with touch screen choices that are 
impossible for a blind person to use. Apparently Comcast has no solution for 
this problem nor will they until they like other cable and  satellite 
television providers are made to come up with one.
Chuck
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS)" <Tim.Ford at cdph.ca.gov>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 3:57 PM
Subject: [blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes


> 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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