[blindlaw] netflix and help finding a lawyer

Wed Mar 6 03:03:20 UTC 2013

yeah, it works with jaws 13 and 14 for sure. they use a lot more graphics than links, so i end up hitting g a lot, but the virtual search works fine. you cant pick a different season of a show without a sighted person though.

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On Mar 5, 2013, at 21:55, "Robert Jaquiss" <rjaquiss at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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
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> 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 
>> 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 Americas 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.
> 
>> 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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