[Electronics-talk] Issues with Cox remote top boxes

[Steve P. Deeley]

Give me the bottom line, are we going to get accessible cable boxes or not?

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From: "Chris Nusbaum" <dotkid.nusbaum at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics andappliances" 
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> 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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