[blindlaw] netflix and help finding a lawyer

Patti Gregory-Chang Esq. pattichang at att.net
Wed Mar 6 13:19:26 UTC 2013


Appleviz has a good podcast.  


Patti S. Gregory-Chang
NFBI President
NFB Scholarship Comm. Chair
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On Mar 5, 2013, at 9:26 PM, Kirt <kirt.crazydude at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>> 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 
>>>> 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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