[Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes
Christopher Chaltain
chaltain at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 09:42:20 UTC 2012
I've heard that when Outspoken from Berkley Systems stopped being
enhanced and supported, Apple was left without a screen reader for their
platforms. This meant that--without an accessibility story--they were
losing deals to US Federal agencies and organizations receiving funding
by the US Federal government (particularly educational institutions).
PC's running Windows had 3rd party solutions to satisfy these
governmental requirements. With no one developing a screen reader for
the Mac platform, Apple took this on themselves.
Note that I've heard this is what motivated Apple to develop VoiceOver
for the Mac, and it makes sense to me, but I don't know this for a fact.
On 24/01/12 21:58, cheez wrote:
> does anyone know why Apple seems to be the only company that is
> conscientious of the blind community?
> I never heard of any Blind organizations or individuals holding guns to
> the heads of the developing team members. It gets frustrating when it
> seems the technology is their, and companies either drag their feet to
> produce, or they just don't give a care about us.
> Vince
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bryan Schulz" <b.schulz at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances"
> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 6:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes
>
>
>> cheez and ray,
>>
>> your replies are the exact same glass half empty attitude that i got
>> blasted for last week on another list.
>>
>> Bryan Schulz
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: cheez
>> To: Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:20 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes
>>
>>
>> It seems every president signs the same law, just to make it look as
>> if they
>> care. Never did see that accessible DVD player, did we?
>> No more. We are getting off topic. Let's refocus with the list's
>> purpose.
>> Vince
>>
>> ----- 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 4:17 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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