[Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message

[Gerald Levy]

You're lucky that you can buy your own washer/dryer.  The new Maytag 
commercial washers and dryers in the laundry room of my apartment complex 
are pretty much inaccessible without sighted help because they have flat 
membrane touchpad controls that cannot be modified in any way.  Plus, they 
now use a card-based system instead of coins to activate them.  Of course, 
the vending machine that is used to add value to the card is totally 
inaccessible because the display has no speech output.  I even asked my 
building manager whether the company that makes the card vending machine 
offered a more accessible model with speech output or some other form of 
audible confirmation so that a blind person could independently verify the 
amount on the card.  He just laughed.  So I now always need sighted help to 
do my laundry.  In the good old days when the machines had mechanical knobs 
and buttons and accepted quarters, I could do the laundry myself.

Gerald


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthew Chao" <mattchao at verizon.net>
To: <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 4:52 PM
Subject: [Electronics-talk] follow-Up to my Last Message


> Hi, Again, Folks.  Forgot to say that I was able to try out the washer in 
> the store.  They were able to plug it into a standard outlet using an 
> extension cord, so I got to see (rather hear) for myself.--Matthew Chao
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