[blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

Fri Feb 20 14:37:43 UTC 2009

A possible option--a global approach to the accessibility of consumer
products by comprehensive legislation.

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Behalf Of AZNOR99 at aol.com
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 4:06 AM
To: blindlaw at nfbnet.org
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

I was at a seminar a few weeks ago, and Dr. Maurer specifically mentioned  
the lack of accessibility of televisions, cable, and satelite services.
Thus, 
the NFB is aware of the problem and is exploring the best manner in which
to 
resolve it for blind people.  If you care strongly about this issue, I  
suggest you call the National Center or Scott and discuss it with Dr. Maurer
or  
Scott.  My experience is they are both very responsive.

Ronza

In a message dated 2/19/2009 10:28:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
roddj12 at hotmail.com writes:

If you  guys are wishing that every access issues should be addressed
through 
law  suits, let me suggest to you that this is not possible. Our efforts
have 

to be targeted, else you lose credibility quickly.

Rod  Alcidonis
Juris Doctor Candidate, 2009.
Roger Williams University School  of Law
10 Metacom Ave., Box: 9003
Bristol, RI 02809
Cell:  718-704-4651
Home: 401-824-8685

----- 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 6:57 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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