[blindlaw] netflix and help finding a lawyer

[Steve Jacobson]

I do not do a lot with Netflix streaming, but I've done a little and was able to get movies to play within the past year on a Windows 7 computer.  Before 
going too far with this, I wonder if it would be worth going to our GUI-Talk list and asking how people are accessing NetFlix from Windows computers.  
There was a time when they implemented some inaccessible controls, but I thought that had been resolved.  I'm not saying it is as easy as it could be, but 
if we're finding ways to access movies, it makes it harder to claim they are not accessible.  Still, you could be running into difficulties I didn't have for some 
reason.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:40:47 -0600, Robert William Kingett wrote:

>I didn't quite know who I should contact, so I’d figured that I’d 
>contact you.

>I'm an audio description critic, and I've been published in a wide array 
>of media and things of that nature. One place I get my content is 
>Netflix, the trouble is, it isn't accessible to the blind… at all. Their 
>streaming service anyway.

>My editor set me up with a streaming account because he assumed it would 
>be cheaper for his blog writers… America’s comedy.com. I don't get the 
>physical DVDs and I can't pay for that service myself.

>I've sent countless tweets, and made several telephone calls to Netflix 
>about the fact that their online player isn't accessible to screen 
>reading technology, at all, and I've also noted the lack of audio 
>description on any of their streaming videos, when everything, or almost 
>everything is closed captioning.

>The iPhone application isn't even accessible with voiceover but I 
>primarily use a windows computer with the screen reader NVDA.

>I’d like to propose a lawsuit. I've been asking for three years, and 
>while I don't have every email I sent them… I can make YouTube 
>demonstrations; I can show people how inaccessible the web service is to 
>the blind and the visually impaired.

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