[BlindTlk] verizon tv status

[Jude DaShiell]

Pamela,

By now your set top box may be defective.  Can you key in a channel 
number you know and then hit the bottom right button on your remote? 
That's a second enter or okay button.  You would need to key numbers in 
quickly for this to have any chance of working.  Another possibility is 
you could be in channel surfing tab and if you right arrow once you 
should get into on demand tab and there maybe channel numbers will work.
  Last resort, Will Shell at dro at fcc.gov may be needed to help out.  If 
you have be my eyes on a phone they may be able to look at your screen 
and tell you about other things going on text to speech isn't speaking. 
This would be good to find out since verizon may need to add more stuff 
to text to speech than battery status and Will Shell would know about 
that and if necessary help you file a complaint.

On Mon, 18 Jan 2021, Pamela Dominguez via BlindTlk wrote:

> My remote doesn't let me change channels unless I either turn the TV off and 
> on, or press the button on the right corner that will say "press any key to 
> watch Fios", and I forget what the rest of the message is.  Then, I can 
> change channels once and it gets stuck.  I have changed batteries, but that's 
> not the problem.  Pam.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Jude DaShiell via BlindTlk
> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 2:58 PM
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Jude DaShiell
> Subject: [BlindTlk] verizon tv status
>
> Restored.  Furthermore, battery status messages only flash on the screen
> and do not get spoken on text to speech.  Probably use of a remote with
> weak batteries caused the random channels problem I had.  Until verizon
> gets those remote battery status messages talking on text to speech, if
> you get a random channels problem change batteries and see if it improves.
> Now, about buying a new tv, the only tv's that could have a problem
> working with text to speech are the ones sold just as hdmi standards
> started being put in place.  There was a period of about 6 months when
> competing hdmi standards were in use and the tv's with those competing
> standards usually have only one hdmi port on the back.  Even with these
> tv's, a coaxial cable connecting the set top box and the tv antenna
> connector can be used eliminating use of hdmi entirely.  Nobody ought to
> have been told to buy a new tv, verizon could have mailed you a coaxial
> cable you could have connected and eliminated any hdmi problem you were
> having.
>
>
>
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