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

[cheez]

Amen, Sista!
Vince

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
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Sent: Monday, June 18, 2012 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-talk] accessible TV shows and how do we fix 
ourTV's to get the audio?


> 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:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>>
>> Gerald
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jenny Keller" <jlperdue3 at gmail.com>
>> To: "Discussion of accessible electronics and appliances" 
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2012 4:55 PM
>> Subject: [Electronics-talk] accessible TV shows and how do we fix our 
>> TV's to get the audio?
>>
>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> JMO,
>>>
>>> Jenny
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