[Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix

[Peter Russillo]

Hi Elizabeth, I don't use Netflix, but this calls for resolutions at next 
year's convention, and an action alert for NFB to bombard them (with shock 
and awe!!!) with emails calling on them to keep accessibility in mind for 
the blind.

Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Elizabeth Rene" <emrene at earthlink.net>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 3:22 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Nix Netflix


> Has anyone noticed how increasingly inaccessible the Netflix Watch 
> Instantly Website has become?  Has anyone noticed how it's become even 
> more inaccessible since Netflix announced its split fee system and the 
> Great Divorce between Streaming and DVD's?  (Or was it child abandonment? 
> Qwixter, the company now to be responsible for DVD's, seems soon to become 
> the purveyor of orphan technology.  Witness the fact that Netflix is 
> offering DVD subscribers the choice to get video games by DVD.  Didn't DVD 
> games go obsolete in the early 90's?)
>
> I'm ranting about this because I called Netflix a couple of weeks ago to 
> ask why the Watch Instantly pages had become so hard to read with JAWS. 
> This had always been so easy.  The rep told me that the images on the 
> screen were constantly moving, in order that more choices might be 
> displayed, and that I could solve my access problem by using the DVD pages 
> to find movies that offered streaming as a viewing option.
>
> Shame on him!  Netflix had already begun to implement its business 
> restructuring plan.
>
> Does anyone else out there care about getting movies online on their TV's 
> or computers?
>
> I've loved Netflix because I can sit right next to my computer screen and 
> look, up close, at anything I think I truly must see.  And I've hoped that 
> Netflix might someday incorporate DVS into its DVD's and streaming 
> technology.
>
> Fat chance now.
>
> Guess I'll just have to read more and watch less.
>
> Elizabeth
>
>
>
> Did you, like me, hear about all of this on NPR or some other news service 
> before that letter came in the e-mail from Netflix's CEO?
>
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