[blindlaw] netflix and help finding a lawyer

[Robert Jaquiss]

Hello:

     I just accessed a Netflix show today using a PC running XP, IE8 and
JAWS 14. It takes a bit of practice, but not too difficult.

Regards,

Robert


-----Original Message-----
From: blindlaw [mailto:blindlaw-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Jacobson
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 6:05 PM
To: Blind Law Mailing List
Subject: Re: [blindlaw] netflix and help finding a lawyer

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 Id figured that Id 
>contact you.

>I'm an audio description critic, and I've been published in a wide 
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>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 
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>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.

>Id 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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