[Electronics-talk] accessible TV shows and how do we fix our TV's to get the audio?

[Jenny Keller]

You know,

I'm coming into this conversation a little late in the game, and maybe it's not politically correct, but if it were the deaf, or someone in a wheelchair and they were getting screwed as bad as we are, and left out of as much stuff as we do, you know there would be a putty party on the national news and every local news from here to hell and back about it.

Frankly, it really makes me furious about how much we get the shaft in this country.  

I know, we have it better than most countries, but equal access should be equal access to disabled services regardless of what disability you have.  

It has always felt to me, that in the good old United States, where all are supposed to be equal, blind people get the least amount of help and accessibility.

I don't mean to ruffle any feathers, but that's just my opinion.

Jenny
On Jun 16, 2012, at 4:16 PM, Gerald Levy wrote:

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> This whole situation is a real mess.  So the networks are going to increase the number of prime time hours dedicated to audio described programming. But if you are blind and you have cable TV or one of the satellite providers, this is of little consolation because there is no way to access the SAP channel unless you have sighted help to navigate the onscreen menus of the converter box to turn it on or off.  Presently, none of the cable or satellite providers has any plans to offer accessible converter boxes, so once again, we blind consumers are getting screwed over while the advocacy groups pat themselves on the backs for increasing the amount of available audio described programming. Imagine if the deaf had to rely strictly on audible clues to turn the closed caption decoder on or off.  You can bet their advocacy groups would scream bloody murder to the FCC.
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> Gerald
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> Gerald
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Electronics-talk] accessible TV shows and how do we fix our TV's to get the audio?
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>> As the subject says.  Most of the TV's menus are not accessible, so how will we get our TV's to the proper settings?
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>> If it is the SAP thing, you can't leave that on all the time, because if it's not available in audio description, it turns in to the spanish option.  besides, again, you can't access the menus by sight it you don't have any.
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>> also, the article said that there would be symbols and sounds, well, the symbols is a stupid idea cause if you are blind, and/or visually impaired, how will you see the symbols?  that's kind of stupid in my opinion, the symbols thing.
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>> Sounds like they have a lot of bugs to get out before July first, and I've seen nothing on the networks saying anything about that, and believe me, I'm a TV junky.
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>> JMO,
>> 
>> Jenny
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