[Colorado-Talk] sharing an inaccessibility challenge

[doula.jarboe at gmail.com]

Hi Everyone,

 

     As I mentioned, I've been in the hospital for about the last week and a
half.  I wanted to share an experience I had because of an inaccessible
application.  If people think I should write this up more formally for the
Blog or the Monitor or some other publication, I can do so.  But right now,
I'm just wanting to share this experience with people who will understand
because of our family and organization.

 

     So, most know I identify as DeafBlind.  I wear hearing aids with
rechargeable batteries.  The charger has lovely little lights that light up
when the hearing aids are charging properly.  So helpful for me right?  I
also have an application on my phone that works with my hearing aids.  Sort
of.  Some things work just great, some things have the button, some things
you get into the section and there's no information there.

 

     Friday evening I moved from ICU to the regular hospital floor.  One of
my hearing aids was dying so I stuck it in the charger.  Maybe an hour to an
hour and a half later I pulled it back out to use it and was still receiving
the low battery signal.  So obviously not getting charged.  Now I'm starting
to worry because the other hearing aid is starting to die as well.  Wes, my
husband showed up to visit, and he's both sighted and technology is his
specialty.  He finally figured out it was the charging cable that needed
replacing.  However, by the time he figured that out both hearing aids were
completely dead.  I spent a good while that night without the use of my
hearing aids because I didn't have full access to the application that could
have told me pretty immediately that the hearing aid wasn't charging.  

 

     That was my bad experience, if we can get the  web and application
accessibility act passed, something like this I might be able to avoid.
Thank you for listening.

Warmly,

Doula

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