[Blindtlk] Some Questions About Watching/Accessing Television

[Ray Foret Jr]

Well, with respect to accessing DVS, as part of the X2 platform accessibility, Comcast will have it set up so that if you want to access DVS, just press one key on the remote control and it's done.  No menus to fuss with.


Sent from my Mac, the only computer with full accessibility for the blind built-in!

Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray, still a very happy Mac and Iphone 5 user!

On Apr 13, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Gary Wunder <gwunder at earthlink.net> wrote:

> I like all of the Internet services that provide television, but I also hope
> that we get some access to the mainstream television services.  I have
> purchased a fantastic package from Charter cable, but many of the services
> are difficult if not impossible to use.  I have this fantastic set top box
> that will let me start recording a show, go off and have supper, rewind the
> show to where I left off, let me watch it, and keep on recording it.  I
> think it will even let me record on one channel and watch on another.  All
> of that is great, but it requires being able to deal with the on-screen
> menus in order to press the right buttons.  Of course we have promises that
> charter cable will soon have its materials in braille and will have a set
> top box the talks, but it is hard to know when that will happen.
> 
> I agree with the comments about wanting an easier way to get to the
> descriptive video that is available.  Television has changed a lot since I
> was a child.  The Westerns my father used to love watching had a lot of
> dialogue in them.  The gunfights sometimes provided a minute or two of
> suspense, but mostly you didn't need descriptive video to tell you who lived
> and who died.  The guys who died never seemed to draw the speaking parts
> after that.
> 
> There are television shows I can't follow without some visual description
> and movies in which not one word is spoken until about 10 minutes have gone
> by.  Scenes seem to change more quickly, and current movies seem to focus
> much more on dramatic visualizations than they do a great dialogue.  I'm
> really excited about the software being developed that will let us take the
> audio from a television show, send it through our smart phones, and have
> them search for corresponding audio descriptions to go along with the video
> being shown.
> 
> When it comes to accessibility, there's a great deal we are lacking and have
> to fight for, but we have lots of things now that we only dreamed of having
> when I was a child and some things we never would've conceived of.  A
> telephone that plays games, radio stations, and lets me listen to albums
> before I purchase them: who would've thought it could happen, but it has.
> My iPhone may not be the easiest telephone I've ever used, but it is
> certainly the best radio a hundred and nine dollars a month can buy.
> 
> 
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