[Electronics-talk] on screen menues

[Steve Jacobson]

Evelyn,

There are no magic answers to this problem yet, and it frustrates the heck out of me being one who has always 
enjoyed stereo equipment.  I have had to access some menus as a result and here are a couple of thoughts.

First, you will need some time with someone who can read the display.  With a little luck, though, that time can be 
turned into making the device mostly useable.  Get a sense of how the menus work.  If there is a menu button, does it 
start in the same place?  How do you leave the menus without making a change, in other words, what is the 
EXCCAPE key.  This is sometimes done by pressing the Menu button a second time, for example.  If it doesn't start at 
the same place every time, see if it starts at the same place if you turn the tuner off and then on.  If it always 
remembers where you were rather than starting at the same place, this can be a blessing and a curse, but finding out 
how to get back to a known place is an important part of the process.  

See if menus work any differently with the remote rather than with the buttons on the tuner, assuming you can use 
menus in more than one way.  Whether or not the manual says this, on occasion, you can jump to a menu item on a 
remote by using numbers on the keypad of the remote rather than the arrow keys.  It is possible that this could get you 
to a known starting position or that it might get you where you need to know more quickly.

I would recomment making a braill list of the menu items.  It is possible there might be menu sections you won't need, 
but I usually find it helpful to at least no what they are.  

While this all sounds complicated, and it can be, you are likely going to find that there are only certain things that you 
access regularly, and you may get to feeling pretty comfortable about getting to them.  I have found that some things 
like setting memories is possible, but I do it only often enough to require that I read my notes.  

Finally, some equipment equipment can be connected to computers now.  It might be worth seeing if that buys you 
anything.  I hope you can get it to work, as it sounds like a fun piece of equipment.

Best regards,

Steve Jacobson

On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:46:36 -0400, Evelyn Weckerly wrote:

>Hi,

>This is not home theater although you can control a bunch of other 
>stuff through the remote. I have owned high end audio equipment for 
>years, mostly accessible. Parts of this piece are accessible too.

>Evelyn

>At 05:12 PM 8/14/2011, you wrote:

>>If you want to avoid onscreen menus, then I suggest sticking with a 
>>basic, low-end two-channel stereo receiver.  Otherwise, you will 
>>need sighted help to navigate the menu in most higher-end home 
>>theater receivers and components.
>>
>>Gerald
>>
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Evelyn Weckerly" <weckerly at i2k.com>
>>To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 4:05 PM
>>Subject: [Electronics-talk] on screen menues
>>
>>
>>>Hi, all,
>>>
>>>I am trying to evaluate a new tuner as part of a high-quality audio 
>>>system. It appears that some of its important functions are 
>>>accessed and set through an on screen menu. I'm wondering how 
>>>people deal with this kind of stuff. The tuner has AM, FM/FMstereo, 
>>>HD (three bands, and is XM ready, needing only the home kit and 
>>>antenna from XM itself. It is a McIntosh Labs MR8088. I know this 
>>>is an expensive piece of equipment, but if perchance anyone on this 
>>>list has looked at this, I'd like to hear from you. I'd also like 
>>>to know if anyone has dealt successfully with onscreen menues and 
>>>how you do it. At this point, I don't know if the choice wrap 
>>>around or not. If they don't, things will be somewhat easier.
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>>Evelyn
>>>
>>>
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