[blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

[McCarthy, Jim]

I imagine that the arguments related to whether or not the web is a
place of accommodations would be applied to this situation.  The other
issue is that I am not aware of anyone who has demonstrated a
ready-for-market product for making these accessible.  Many of us
believe it is more than possible but I am not aware of anyone who has
put the technology out on the market.  That probably makes the ADA not a
reasonable approach to this issue.  That is only my opinion and others
might differ.  I believe it was Russell Thomas who suggested a global
legislative approach in an earlier post on this thread.  At our recently
completed Washington Seminar, the NFB promoted as one of our legislative
issues what we called a Technology Bill of Rights for the Blind.  I will
attached the fact sheet for that issue to this email.  We are in the
very early stages with this and our final outcome may differ
significantly from this approach, but I think this is a good starting
place and is a reasonable summary of the issues and possible solutions.
Jim McCarthy 

-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Jaquiss
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 8:13 AM
To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes

Hello Jim and List:

     On a DISH receiver, it is possible to order Pay For View movies.
Would this fact make a DISH receiver a place of business? Also audio
described content is not available or at least I haven't been able to
get it.

Regards,

Robert Jaquiss, Member
Committee on Research and DEvelopment
National Federation of the Blind
Email: rjaquiss at earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List" <blindlaw at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes


> 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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