[Colorado-Talk] sharing an inaccessibility challenge

[Amy Sabo]

hello doullel,

i'am sorry that you had to be in the hospital for your medical issues.
that sucks that your hearing aids died when you were in the hospital
and, the ap on your phone didn't tell you that the charging cord was
dead!

yes, we do indeed need the medical accessibility act and, also the web
and ap accessibility act into congress. i can understand on this since
i too have multiple disabilities besides my blindness so, i can
completely understand on that completely!

so, please take care of yourself and, i will talk to you soon.




hugs,
amy sabo

On 2/28/24, Doula Jarboe via Colorado-Talk <colorado-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>