[Electronics-talk] at&t u-verse: was Cable/settop boxes

Mon Jun 18 18:45:34 UTC 2012

Ok here's the skinny. At&t boxes are not any more accessible than any other 
cable company here in the u.s. However, the menu sequence to check if sAP is 
available is not complicated.
Similar to recorded shows. You press recordings and as long as you know what 
shows you have you can arrow down and count. It is not easy and it is not 
fun to do this but that's the sacrifice we make every day.
Now as far as the u-verse app. It is accessible but only about 50 percent. 
You can look at your dvr and it will show you what recordings you have, it 
will not read the show title to you. Each date is a heading and each click 
is a show title. you have to double tap on each item to actually here the 
title spoken. Again it's better than nothing but it still kind of sucks. In 
this app you can also look at your scheduled recordings but same thing goes 
each date is a heading and each blank click is a show title.
You can also go to the program guide if u want to set up a recording. Again 
the only way you can access the shows you want, or at least the only way i 
have found, is to use the search box to type in a show title. The show title 
will come up with a record button. So yes it can work with a bit of patience 
and a zannex or two.
You can also watch select tv shows on your device. Note that these are only 
the show's at&t says its ok to watch, which means they change all the time 
and no, you cannot watch your recorded shows.
I bet if we could get ahold of the app team we could probably make this 
thing accessible it just needs a few tweeks. Getting a hold of them might be 
the challenge.
bb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ingram" <dingram269 at earthlink.net>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Cable/settop boxes


> does this also work with u-verse?  I would like to know if u-verse is 
> accessible for the blind to use?  Is it just as good as what is going on 
> in the United Kingdom?  Thank you for any information that you might have.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 12:43 AM
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>> es! And thanks to barefooted Ray. The way to turn sap on and off with 
>> at&t u-verse remote. Not to mention that there i-phone app is 70 perdent 
>> accessible. Enough to view and record shows. It's not perfect butt maybe 
>> with a letter to the developers it could be.
>> Anyway just throwing this one out there.
>> bb
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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>> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 3:01 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] Cable/settop boxes
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>>
>>> Just for anyone's knowledge.  Comcast has it to where you can program 
>>> your DVR and watch on demand programs on the computer, also, if you have 
>>> an iPhone, and you have a compatible box for the xfinity ap, you can do 
>>> the programming of the DVR, and control your TV and voiceover works with 
>>> that.
>>>
>>> Just for people who didn't know that.
>>>
>>> It doesn't do me any good to have the ap on my iPhone, cause I don't 
>>> have a compatible box, but I use the on demand thing if I miss a show or 
>>> something.
>>>
>>> I don't know about with JAWS or window eyes, but I know that the site, I 
>>> believe it's xfinitytv.net, or you can just call comcast itself to ask 
>>> what the site name is to get to on demand is, and it's very accessible 
>>> with voiceover.
>>>
>>> Jenny
>>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 6:55 AM, from tim aune wrote:
>>>
>>>> If you have comcasts converter boxes for older tv's, they have an SAP 
>>>> button on the supplied remote.  I think that the boxes for HD tv boxes 
>>>> make you go into the menue to get to the SAP service.
>>>> Tim Aune
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message----- From: John Riehl
>>>> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2012 6:42 AM
>>>> To: 'Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances'
>>>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] Cable/settop boxes
>>>>
>>>> I just read the announcement re more descriptive audio being available 
>>>> soon.
>>>> That's great!
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious what the status is of the cable companies and TV 
>>>> manufacturers
>>>> providing accessible settop boxes. I've tried contacting comcast but 
>>>> can't
>>>> find a contact info; I'm not sure where to start with Verizon. What are 
>>>> NFB
>>>> and orgs like AFB doing in this regard?
>>>> I'm tired of paying for services I  can't use, much less not being able 
>>>> to
>>>> navigate my tv's menu. I know about the talking Panasonic tv's being
>>>> available in Great Britain; are they available here in the US?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any info anyone has!
>>>>
>>>> Panasonic
>>>>
>>>> John Riehl
>>>>
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