[Electronics-talk] Twenty-First Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act (was: Issues with Cox remote top boxes)

Tue Jan 24 23:58:36 UTC 2012

yes it is
hopefully this will go through.
Apple gets it, but no one else does.
I would to be able to use my DVR, and maybe some day I will be able to.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:46 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] Twenty-First Century Communications and Video 
Accessibility Act (was: Issues with Cox remote top boxes)

>I don't think the bill is off topic for the list, but it was dragging
> that thread into the weeds.
>
> I think this is the bill you're talking about.  From what I can see 
> here...
>
> http://transition.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/cvaa.html
>
> the bill was signed in 2010, and is still in comment gathering stage
> before rules are written.  All this has to be done before anything
> real change can happen.
>
> Jim
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:36:34PM -0600, Dewey Bradley wrote:
>> Excuse me.
>> This bill is supposed to help, I was asking about it, my understanding 
>> that
>> it was going to force cable and sattlelight companies to make there boxes
>> accessible.
>> So sorry if I've jumped off topic.
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar at barcore.com>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes
>>
>>
>> >How is this helping to answer the original question, which was "what
>> >cox cable boxes are most accessible?"
>> >
>> >If we find the bill number, then what?  If the law was  passed in
>> >2012, it's less than a month old.  Even if it were passed on the fall
>> >of 2011, there's still not enough time to have implemented the law.
>> >
>> >Jim
>> >
>> >On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 05:13:05PM -0600, Dewey Bradley wrote:
>> >>Do you know what bill it is, I couldn't find it, I wasn't aware that it
>> >>had
>> >>passed
>> >>
>> >>----- Original Message ----- From: <GeorTsoukala at aol.com>
>> >>To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> >>Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 5:08 PM
>> >>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>I believe it was part of the law that passed in 2012.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>In a message dated 1/24/2012 3:18:12 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> >>>dewey.bradley at kc.rr.com writes:
>> >>>
>> >>>Isn't  there a bill in congress to require companies to make that 
>> >>>stuff
>> >>>accessible?
>> >>>
>> >>>----- Original Message ----- From: "Julie  Phillipson"
>> >>><jbrew48 at verizon.net>
>> >>>To: "Tony Sohl"  <tonysohl at cox.net>; "Discussion of accessible
>> >>>electronics
>> >>>and  appliances" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> >>>Sent: Tuesday, January 24,  2012 2:04 PM
>> >>>Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top  boxes
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>a few years ago there was some articles I think in the  monitor but 
>> >>>>it
>> >>>>may
>> >>>>have been from access world or could have been  both.  It compared a
>> >>>>few
>> >>>>models as to which were the easier ones  to use.
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>Julie Phillipson
>> >>>>----- Original  Message ----- From: "Tony Sohl" <tonysohl at cox.net>
>> >>>>To:  <Electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> >>>>Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012  1:40 PM
>> >>>>Subject: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top  boxes
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>>>Hi I was wondering are there any accessible  cable boxes on the 
>> >>>>>market
>> >>>or
>> >>>>>any way I can access the menus such  as turning on the second audio
>> >>>>>program for DVS? If anyone has  some suggestions, then let me know.
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