[Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes

[Chris Nusbaum]

If you're talking about the Technology Bill of Rights for the 
Blind or the Home Appliance Accessibility Act (HAAA,) which are 
both proposed bills written by the NFB, they haven't yet been 
formally introduced in Congress.  The Technology Bill of Rights 
was in Congress in the last session (the 111th session,) but it 
got stuck in committee and never got enough cosponsors to get to 
the floor of the House.  It hasn't been introduced yet in the 
112th session, and I haven't heard anything from the NFB as to 
any progress made on this bill.  As to the HAAA, it hasn't been 
introduced either, and is one of the legislative priorities at 
this year's Washington Seminar.  I think we'll see a lot more 
about that bill after the Seminar.  There is a bill that the ACB 
was advocating for called the 21st Century Communication and 
Video Accessibility Act, which was passed, but I think that law 
only covers audio description for TV shows and other TV 
programming.  I don't think the Video Accessibility Act covers 
the accessibility of cable boxes, but I'm not entirely sure on 
that.

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: "Dewey Bradley" <dewey.bradley at kc.rr.com
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and 
appliances"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:15:13 -0600
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes

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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