[Diabetes-talk] help the "pen clickers"!

[Veronica Elsea]

Hmmm, not that easy to do because today's pumps are so different from each
other. The trend seems to be to go towards interactive kinds of displays.
So, you make one choice. That choice brings up a specific dialog or
question, which brings up another. This is unlike the bad old days when you
had a finite number of functions that would appear in menus which only
required us to count beeps and ask that menus not wrap around. So yes, we
would most certainly need to ask for keypad beeps and different sounds for
different alarms. But nothing short of speech will make today's equipment
fully and completely accessible. Can we function with partial and improved
accessibility? That's what we've pretty much always done and yes, I'd take
it. But the Tandem T-slim which does have keypads, nice sounds which can be
heard by older ears and all of that, well, this means nothing because we
have no way to access the touch screen, let alone responding to the various
questions. If we just came to the companies now with a list of hardware
ideas, there's a good chance that by the time the companies implemented
them, the pumps would work quite differently and we'd be behind again or
left out. We really need people with deep pump knowledge to sit down and go
through the details of how all people work, why they think all people want
the methods that are trending, and be part of the future solution that works
for everyone, including us. It's getting so silly in my head here that I'm
watching for any of those big dreams contests through Pepsy, Farmer's
insurance or whoever wants to give away a bunch of money for someone to go
after a crazy dream. <grin>
Hey, why not! Stay tuned! Hahahahaha!
Veronica

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-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Grant Metcalf via Diabetes-talk
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 8:44 AM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] help the "pen clickers"!

I personally am not interested in an insulin pump for myself, however, might

I suggest that those of you who are should develop a concise list of 
perimeters, about one page, that would be most helpful and/or useful to the 
blind pump user. Once this list has been created, then take it to the 
companies most interested in providing the type of access needed by the 
blind insulin pump user. Also, it might be a good thing to take to the 
manufactourers of the Prodigy and Solo V companies who already are involved 
in providing talking meters.
Since the hardware is already available to the general market, such a list 
would be helpful to the engineers who design the firmware from the ground up

so to speak. Since the blind pump users are such a small portion of the 
market, everything you can do to provide a concise and helpful list of 
perimeters will perhaps make it more probable that you can get the practical

options for a talking pump you really need.
Now then, yall know what yall need, so get to work on that concise list of 
perimeters! smile


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