[blindlaw] Satellite and Cable TV Tuner Boxes

[Michael Fry]

It seems cable box accessibility is relevant to more visually impaired
people than LSAC accessibility.

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Ford, Tim (CDPH-OLS)
<Tim.Ford at cdph.ca.gov>wrote:

> I fully agree that such lawsuits need to be carefully chosen.  I mention
> the satellite and cable boxes because they are so wide-spread.  I also
> suspect that, similar to an ATM machine, there are probably very few
> differences inside the various boxes in terms of the basic technology.
> Hence, the solution to one company's box may be either directly or
> easily transferable to others.  Certainly with the advances of screen
> reading programs, it would not be that hard to come up with a speech
> output option for these boxes, which by their nature have much  fewer
> variability as compared with a typical computer system.
>
> Tim Ford
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of Rod Alcidonis
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:11 PM
> To: NFBnet Blind Law Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [blindlaw] Satelitte TV Tuner Boxes
>
> 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
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> ----- 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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