[Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet Radio

Chris Nusbaum dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 23:48:48 UTC 2012 

I have the Starmate 5 receiver, and I agree with your friend that 
it is pretty usable, as has been said before.  However, there are 
some features to the radios which aren't available to us; reading 
the song title and artist, the channel name and number, and 
reading the call-in number for the channel you are listening to 
(if that channel has one,) as this information is displayed on 
the
screen of the radio for sighted people.  All the on-screen menus 
and channel look-up features of the radio are also inaccessible.  
There is a work-around to the channel lookup feature, which is to 
go to the program guide channel (channel 184 on Sirius) and 
listening for the channel name and number you want.  However, 
this isn't near as fast as it would be for sighted people to just 
look up the channel in the menu.  For example, one day I couldn't 
remember the channel number of a channel that I wanted to listen 
to, and went to the program guide channel, but had to wait for 
them to go through the whole programming lineup (probably a half 
an hour at least) just to hear the channel number for one 
channel, when I could have been listening to something far more 
interesting! Their Web site isn't accessible either, so they 
leave a lot to be desired for us, and when talking to tech 
support about this issue, it was as if I was talking to myself, 
as the guy was outsourced from India or somewhere and spoke very 
broken English.  So he had no idea what I was talking about.  I 
really hope the NFB acts on that resolution from last year, if we 
haven't done so already, and I just didn't know about it.

Chris

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a blind person has the proper training and 
opportunity, blindness can be reduced to a mere physical 
nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "cheez" <cheez at cox.net
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:17:33 -0700
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio

A friend has the Starmate 4, bought at Radio Shack 4 years ago.  
He is total
and says it's pretty friendly.
Vince

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 7:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio


 Most of the satellite radio receivers are usable, that is you 
can move
 from channel to channel, go directly to a channel, and the like.  
However
 many of the features of the radios are not available to us.  
Each channel
 gives its number and name, each song and band are named, and 
some
 receivers have features to group things by genre etc.  There 
also may be
 menu-based settings for tone etc., which are not accessible.  I 
do not
 know of any satellite radio that turns the info on the display 
screen of
 the unit into speech or Braille.

 So, as I say they are usable, but not completely accessible.

 Dave

 At 07:31 PM 1/2/2012, you wrote:
The receivers themselves are pretty accessible, I was asking 
about
Internet radio.

Chris

Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year!

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real
problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a
blind person has the proper training and opportunity, blindness 
can be
reduced to a mere physical nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan (President, National Federation of the Blind,
1968-1986

The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps blind and visually impaired youth 
in
Maryland say "I can," by empowering them through providing 
assistive
technology and scholarships to camps and conventions which help 
them be
equal with their sighted peers.  For more information about the 
Foundation
and to support our work, visit us online at 
www.icanfoundation.info!

----- Original Message -----
From: "cheez" <cheez at cox.net
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 18:13:02 -0700
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio

At that time, I was told it was.  I don't know about now.
The one thing I found annoying was, each time I signed in, I'd 
have to
enter
the code of a captcha.  And since I had no one sighted around to 
read it
to
me, That made me decide to forget it.  The verbal code never 
worked for me
either.
Again.  That was 3 years ago.  I haven't tried since so it may be
different
now.
I have a friend that just got a sat radio for Christmas that is 
pretty
accessible.  I'll ask him what the model is and share.
Vince

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics andappliances"
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio


Hi Vince,

So the app is accessible?

Chris

Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year!

"The real problem of blindness is not the loss of eyesight.  The 
real
problem is the misunderstanding and lack of education that 
exists.  If a
blind person has the proper training and opportunity, blindness 
can be
reduced to a mere physical nuisance."
-- Kenneth Jernigan (President, National Federation of the Blind,
1968-1986

The I C.A.N.  Foundation helps blind and visually impaired youth 
in
Maryland say "I can," by empowering them through providing 
assistive
technology and scholarships to camps and conventions which help 
them be
equal with their sighted peers.  For more information about the 
Foundation
and to support our work, visit us online at 
www.icanfoundation.info!

----- Original Message -----
From: "cheez" <cheez at cox.net
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 10:08:24 -0700
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio

I tried subscribing about 3 years ago and I had trouble getting 
it to work
for me.  I was also disappointed when I found out that some shows 
weren't
available online.  So I canceled and asked for a refund--which 
they said
wasn't refundable.
Hopefully they've changed.  I think most folks are using iPhones 
and other
cellphones to listen to sat radio now.
Vince

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Riehl" <realman02 at comcast.net
To: "'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'"
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 10:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio


Chris, it's very nice to meet you.  Welcome to the list!
I'm also interested in the question of XM on-line accessibility.

I have never heard of Sirius XM Streamer, so I'd love to hear 
some
comments
on its accessibility.
Again, welcome to the List, Chris -- and Happy New Year!
  John

John Riehl

-----Original Message-----
From: electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Chris 
Nusbaum
Sent: Sunday, January 01, 2012 1:54 PM
To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Electronics-talk] question about Sirius XM Internet 
Radio

Hi everyone,

First of all, I want to wish everyone on this list a very happy
new year and say that I am new to this list! I'm 14 years old and
am in 8th grade in public school here in Maryland.  You have
probably seen me on other NFB lists, the NABS (National
Association of Blind Students) or Blind Talk list, as I'm very
active in the Federation.  With that said, I have a question
about Sirius XM Internet radio and accessibility.  Has anyone
found a work-around to using Sirius XM's online radio service
with JAWS? It seems to be inaccessible to me, at least the one on
siriusxm.com.  I have heard about a program called Sirius XM
Streamer which makes the internet stream accessible.  But how
does it work? Thanks for any help!

Chris

Merry Christmas and a happy and prosperous new year!


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