[blindlaw] netflix and help finding a lawyer

Wed Mar 6 03:26:51 UTC 2013

I've only played with the iPhone app a little bit, but I've been able to make it play shows without really any trouble. Like I said, though, my experience with it is very limited. Perhaps I will play with it a little bit more the next few days and see how things are once I get a little bit more in depth.

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On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Sybren Hoekstra <sy.hoekstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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>> 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:
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>>> 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 
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>> 
>>> 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 
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>> 
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